Austria Tchaikovsky: Yevgény Onégin. Soloists, Peter Valentovic (conductor), Wiener KammerOrchester. Kammeroper, Vienna. 4.10.2014 (SS)
A Sparse Production of Yevgény Onégin Opens Vienna’s Kammeroper Season
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Dancer Wendy Houston Mixes Serious with Absurd
United Kingdom Pact with Pointlessness: Wendy Houstoun, The Place, London, 7.10.2014 (J.O’D)
Grand Opening to the Swansea Festival in Refurbished Hall
United Kingdom Beethoven and Mendelssohn: Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra / Karl-Heinz Steffans (conductor, Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, 4.10.2014 (LJ).
Sinfonia Cymru Re-imagine the Italian Renaissance
United Kingdom Rota, Terranova, Respighi, Sciarrino: Sinfonia Cymru String Quartet, Swedish Wind Ensemble, Camerata Nolrdica, Amy Corkery (soprano), Angela Giovio (mezzo-soprano), Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff , 5.10.2014 (LJ).
A Great Start to the South Bank’s Rachmaninoff Inside Out Series
United Kingdom Rachmaninoff Inside Out Alexander Ghindin (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra,Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 3.10. 2014 (CC)
Robert Falls’ Carnal, Noirish Don Giovanni
United States Mozart, Don Giovanni: Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis (conductor), Michael Black (chorus master), Civic Opera House, Chicago, Illinois. 27.9.2014 (DP)
Nézet-Séguin Leads a Magisterial and Ravishing Alpensinfonie
United StatesJohn Williams, Mozart, Richard Strauss, Lang Lang (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 28.9.2014 (BJ)
Gala Recital in Vienna Highlighted by Elisabeth Leonskaja
Austria Haydn, Schumann, Brahms, Szymanowski, & Juon: Yury Revich (violin), Bas Jongen (cello), Anna Magdalena Kokits (piano), Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano), Mozart Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna. 30.9.2014 (SS)