United States Juilliard Baroque’s “The Three Fiddlers”: Monica Huggett, Cynthia Roberts, Robert Mealy (violins), Phoebe Carrai (cello), Avi Stein (harpsichord), Paul Hall, Juilliard School of Music, New York,27-9-2011 (SSM)
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Liszt Discovery Day at the Wigmore Hall: Rather a Missed Opportunity
United Kingdom Liszt Discovery Day: Eva Thorarinsdottir (violin), Joris van den Berg (cello), Tristan Lee, Coady Green, Leslie Howard, Bobby Chen (piano),BBC Singers, David Hill (conductor). Wigmore Hall,London. 8.10.2011 (MB)
Steven Osborne in an Exciting Recital at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
United Kingdom Beethoven, Ravel, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov: Steven Osborne (Piano), Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. 5.10.2011 (RB)
Electrifying Bruckner Seventh in Helsinki
Finland Mozart, Bruckner: The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Kurt Masur, Helsinki Music Centre, 16.9.2011 (GF)
RPO Opens Swansea Festival With Fine Beethoven, Brahms and Bruch
United Kingdom Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard, (conductor), Tasmin Little (violin), Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, 8.10.2011 (NR)
Leo Nucci Excels As Germont In Covent Garden’s La Traviata
United Kingdom Verdi La traviata (Cast 1): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor), 3.10.2011 (CC)
Very Satisfying Start to Freddy Kempf’s Beethoven Piano Concerto Project
United Kingdom Beethoven: Freddy Kempf (piano / conductor), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, 7.10.2011 (GPu)
Atmospheric Debussy and Lyrical Rachmaninov from Denève, Lugansky and RSNO
United Kingdom Debussy, Rachmaninov : Nikolai Lugansky (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stéphane Denève (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 07.10.2011 (SRT)