United Kingdom Mozart, Don Giovanni: Opera Warwick / Benjamin Hamilton (conductor), Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, 16.1.2014 (RD)
Racy and Effortless Student Production of Don Giovanni
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A Dramatic Symphonie Fantastique from Koenigs and WNO Orchestra
United Kingdom Berg, Wagner, Berlioz: Emma Bell* (soprano), Welsh National Opera Orchestra/Lothar Koenigs, St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 17.1.2014 (PCG)
Mazzola Offers Edinburgh Audience a Night in Italy
United Kingdom Respighi, Rossini, Menotti: Renata Pokupić (mezzo), Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Enrique Mazzola (conductor), Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 18.01.2013 (SRT)
Semyon Bychkov Impresses Again With the BBC Symphony Orchestra
United Kingdom Martinů, Shostakovich: Katia and Marielle Labèque (pianos), Semyon Bychkov (conductor), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Barbican Hall, London, 16.1.2014 (GDn)
Superb Strauss and Prokofiev from Nelsons and the CBSO
United Kingdom Strauss, Prokofiev, Erin Wall (soprano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons (conductor), Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 15.1.2014 (JQ)
Powerful Hallucinations at the Prototype Festival
United States Jonathon Berger, Visitations: “Theotokia” and “The War Reporter”: Soloists, Christopher Rountree (music director). Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, 11.1.2014. (DS)
James MacMillan’s New Viola Concerto Premièred in London
United Kingdom MacMillan and Mahler: Lawrence Power (viola), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London, 15.1.2014. (JPr)
A Moving Winterreise from Gerald Finley and Julius Drake
United Kingdom Schubert, Gerald Finley (bass-baritone), Julius Drake (piano), Wigmore Hall, London, 15.1.2014 (RB)