United Kingdom Beethoven: Renaud Capuçon (violin), Frank Braley (piano). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 6.11.2014 (MB)
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A Listless Otello —How is That Possible?
Verdi, Otello: Soloists, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Patrick Summers (conductor), Houston, Texas. 26.10.2014 (AS) Cast: Otello: Simon O’Neill Desdemona: Ailyn Pérez Iago: Marco Vratogna Cassio: Norman Reinhardt Emilia: Victoria Livengood Lodovico: Morris Robinson Roderigo: Kevin Ray Montao: Peixin Chen Production Director: John Cox Sets/Costume designer: Johan Engels Lighting designer: Michael James Clark … Read more
Sweet Music to the Ear at Sunset
United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival – The Schubert Project (3). The Abendröte Cycle & Der Liedler: Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Eugene Asti (piano): Holywell Music Room, Oxford 18.10.2014. (MH)
An Auspicious Debut for Diego Matheuz
Canada Moncayo, Mozart and Berlioz: Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Diego Matheuz (conductor), Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, BC, 1.11.2014. (GN)
Savagery, Menace and Sardonic Jubilance in Shostakovich’s Tenth
United Kingdom Liadov, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich: Leticia Moreno (violin), St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra /Yuri Temirkanov (conductor), Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 4.11.2014 (MC)
In Staatsoper Ariadne, Frothy Staging and Uneven Thielemann
Austria Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos. Soloists, Christian Thielemann (conductor), Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper. Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna. 21.10.2014 (SS)
A Figaro That Could Not Be More Perfect
Sweden Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro: Soloists, chorus, Gothenburg Opera Orchestra, Jane Glover (conductor 27.09.2014), Patrik Ringborg (conductor 31.10.2014) Gothenburg Opera, 27.09.2014/31.10.2014
The Delightful Appeal of Liederspiel
United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival – The Schubert Project. The ‘Kosegarten Liederspiel’: Sophie Junker (soprano), Belinda Williams (mezzo soprano), Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (fortepiano), Holywell Music Room, Oxford 17.10.2014. (MH)