United States Focus! 2015, Program VI: Debussy, Takemitsu, Miyoshi, Yoshimatsu: Sam Jones (trumpet), Alex Shiozaki (violin), The Juilliard Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka (conductor), Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York City. 30.1.2015 (BH)
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Compelling and Intellectually Engaging Traviata at ENO
United Kingdom Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Roland Böer (conductor), London Coliseum, London. 9.2.2015 (JPr)
Photo credit Donald Cooper
A Fine Lieder Recital from Simon Bode and Igor Levit
United Kingdom Schubert, Beethoven, and Rihm: Simon Bode (tenor), Igor Levit (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 8.2.2015 (MB)
Matthew Polenzani: Not Your Ordinary, Run-of-the-Mill Tenor
United States Beethoven, Liszt, Satie, Ravel, and Barber: Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 6.2.2015 (BJ)
A String Quartet with a Light Touch
United States Bartók, Scandinavian folk music, and Nielsen: Danish Quartet, Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 5.2.2015 (BJ)
A Very ‘Russian’ Performance of the Pathétique
United Kingdom Beethoven, Saint-Saëns and Tchaikovsky: Natalie Clein (cello), St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Dmitriev (conductor), Cadogan Hall, London, 9.2.2015 (AS)
ENO’s Exemplary and Magnificent Performance of Meistersinger
United Kingdom Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (sung in English): Cast, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera/Edward Gardner (conductor),. London Coliseum, 7.2.2015 (CC)
Photo (c) Catherine Ashmore
Refined Beethoven Under the Baton of Hans Graf
Singapore Beethoven, Shostakovich: Igor Yuzefovich (violin), Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Hans Graf (conductor), Esplanade Concert Hall Singapore, 07.02.2015 (RP)