United Kingdom ‘Nash Inventions’: Turnage, Colin Matthews, Goehr, Maxwell Davies, Birtwistle, and Harvey: Claire Booth (soprano), Nash Ensemble, Lionel Friend (conductor). Wigmore Hall, London, 13.3.2012 (MB)
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Jonas Kaufmann: A Personal Impression!
Margarida Mota-Bull Interviews the German Tenor
Great Pianists Week in Seattle
United States Liszt: Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Meany Hall, Seattle, 7.3.2012 (BJ)
United States Copland, Haydn, Beethoven, and Schumann: Emanuel Ax (piano), Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 11.3.2012 (BJ)
Stagecraft Dominates in Seattle Opera’s Orphée et Eurydice
United States Gluck, Orphée et Eurydice: Seattle Opera, soloists, Gary Thor Wedow (conductor), Jose Maria Condemi (director), Phillip Lienau (sets), Heidi Zamora (costumes), Connie Yun (lighting), Joyce Degenfelder (hair and makeup design), Yannis Adoniou (choreography), Beth Kirchhoff (chorus master), Philip A. Kelsey and David McDade (musical preparation), McCaw Hall, Seattle, 25 & 29.2.2012 (BJ)
Mahler and Mozart from the BBC Symphony
United Kingdom Mozart and Mahler: Jan Lisiecki (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 9.3.2012. (JPr)
Banal Libretto and Unadventurous Score Mar Judith Weir’s New Opera
United Kingdom Judith Weir, Miss Fortune (British premiere): Soloists, Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Paul Daniel (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 12.3.2012 (MB)
Murray Perahia Lavishes Care on Classic Chestnuts
United States Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Chopin: Murray Perahia (piano), presented by Cal Performances, Zellerbach Hall, University of California at Berkeley. 11.3.2012 (HS)
Hail Hallé’s Assistant Conductor in Program of Romantic Composers
United Kingdom Richard Strauss, Rachmaninov, Mendelssohn, Wagner: Alexander Romanovsky (piano), Hallé Orchestra / Andrew Gourlay (conductor), Town Hall, Cheltenham, 10.3.2012. (RJ)