United States Spring for Music, Concert III: Hila Plitmann (soprano), Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Men of the Westminster Symphonic Choir, Joe Miller (WSC director), New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Lacombe (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York City, 9.5.2012 (BH)
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Houston Symphony Kicks Off Carnegie’s “Spring for Music”
United States Spring for Music, Concert I, “Two Faces of Shostakovich”: Mikhail Svetlov (bass), Houston Symphony, Hans Graf (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York City, 7.5.2012 (BH)
Ashkenazy’s lovingly respectful way with Berlioz and Bruch
United Kingdom Berlioz, Bruch: Alina Pogostkina (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra / Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor), St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, 22.5.2012 (GPu)
Opera North Set High Standards with its Carousel
United Kingdom Rodgers & Hammerstein, Carousel: Soloists, Orchestra, Chorus and Dancers of Opera North, The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays, 23-26.5.2012 (RJF)
Poetry – and Rhetoric – from Pianist Olli Mustonen
United Kingdom Bach, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov: Olli Mustonen (piano), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh college of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 20.5.2012 (GPu)
Judge Me Paris: A Baroque Burlesque Opera
United States Eccles, Judge Me Paris:A Baroque Burlesque Opera, Company XIV, 303 Bond St. Theatre, Brooklyn, New York, 20.5.2012 (SSM)
Jessye Norman: The Great American Diva Still Has ‘It’
United Kingdom Bernstein, Rodgers, Gershwin, Arlen, Donaldson, Weill, Duke Ellington: Jessye Norman (soprano); Mark Markham (piano). Royal Festival Hall, London, 21.5.2012 (CC)
A Disappointing First Encounter with Arcadi Volodos
United Kingdom Schubert, Brahms, and Liszt: Arcadi Volodos (piano). Royal Festival Hall, London, 22.5.2012 (MB)