United Kingdom Puccini: La Bohème: Heritage Opera, Benjamin Cox (electric piano), Haigh Hall, Wigan, Lancashire, 1.11.2012. (MC)
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Evgene Kissin: the Light and Dark of It
Italy Evgene Kissin (piano) A recital at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome 01-11-2012. (JB)
Wang and Tilson Thomas Take Prokofiev for a Wild Ride
United States Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Harrison: Yuja Wang (piano), San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. 31.10.2012 (HS)
Close-ups Do No Favours in Met Live Otello
United Kingdom Verdi, Otello: Soloists, Chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Semyon Bychkov. (conductor). Production by Elijah Moshinsky, directed for Met Live in HD 2012/13 by Barbara Willis Sweete and broadcast to the Barbican Cinema, London, 27.10.2012. (JPr)
The Arditti Quartet in a Typically Testing Programme
United Kingdom Clarke, Abrahamsen, Saunders, Rihm: Arditti Quartet, Wigmore Hall, London, 31.10.2012 (MB)
Holzmair and Cooper: Enthralling in Mahler
United Kingdom Mahler: Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Imogen Cooper (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 28.10.2012 (MB)
Graceful, Precise Conducting from Skrowaczewski at 89
United Kingdom Brahms, Bruckner, Shostakovich: Garrick Ohlsson (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Stanislav Skrowaczewski (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London, 26.10.12 (GD)
Vänskä Leads a Mixed Brahms Bag
United States Brahms: Renaud Capuçon (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor). Symphony Center, Chicago, 19.10.2012 (JLZ)