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Muti and CSO Offer Hometown Preview of European Tour

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United StatesUnited States Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, Debussy, Panufnik, Stravinsky: Christopher Martin (trumpet), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti (conductor) Orchestra Hall, Chicago. 19/25.9.14; 4.10.14. (DP)

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Conductor Riccardo Muti, principal trumpet Christopher Martin and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform Panufnik’s “Concerto in modo antico.” (Photo: Todd Rosenberg)

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The Gould Trio Delve into the World of Robert Schumann with Intelligent Perspicuity

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Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms, Gyorgy Kurtag, Louis Spohr, Johann N. Hummel: The Gould Piano Trio [Lucy Gould (violin), Benjamin Frith (piano), Alice Neary (cello)], Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 17.10.2014-19.10.2014 (LJ). The RWCMD hosted a marvellous weekend of chamber music performed by the prodigiously talented Gould … Read more

A Sparkling Madhouse from the Young Mozart

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom   Mozart, La finta giardiniera: Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Glyndebourne Tour Orchestra / Christopher Moulds (conductor), Glyndebourne Opera,  Sussex 14.10.2014 (MH)

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La finta giardiniera, Glyndebourne Tour 2014. Clockwise from left –  Serpetta (Eliana Pretorian), Don Anchise (Timothy Robinson),  Nardo (Mattia Olivieri), Arminda (Eleonore Marguerre) and Ramiro (Hanna Hipp). © Richard Hubert Smith.

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