United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Fauré, Gareth Glyn, Michael Csanyi-Wills, Beethoven: Welsh Sinfonia, Mark Eager (conductor). Doris Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. 27.9.2014 (PCG)
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Conversation with the Dover Quartet
A Conversation with the Dover Quartet The young Dover Quartet won not only the Grand Prize but all three Special Prizes at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, and received top prizes at the Fischoff and the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competitions. Originally formed at the Curtis Institute of Music, the group … Read more
Dover Quartet Balances Technical Aplomb with Emotional Expression
Canada Beethoven and Vivian Fung: Dover Quartet (Joel Link and Bryan Lee, violins; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello), Koerner Hall, Vancouver Academy of Music, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 18.9.2014. (GN)
Berlin Experiences Best of All Worlds in Bernstein Operetta
Germany Leonard Bernstein, Candide (comic operetta in 2 acts): Staatsopernchor, Staatskapelle Berlin/Wayne Marshall (conductor), Schiller Theater, Berlin, Sunday 21st September 2014 (MC)
Joyce DiDonato’s London Recital Compromised by Some Second-Rate Material
United Kingdom Joyce DiDonato: Stella di Napoli: Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, Riccardo Minasi (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 25.9.2014. (JPr)
BBC SSO Opens Season with Dramatic and Uncompromising All-Russian Programme
United Kingdom Mussorgsky, Scriabin, Shostakovich: Barry Douglas (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, / Donald Runnicles (conductor), Barry Douglas piano, City Halls, Glasgow, 25.09.2014. (CG)
CBSO Pays Centenary Tribute to Former Conductor Sir Andrzej
Andrzej Panufnik Centenary Concert – Panufnik, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Wagner: Peter Donohoe (piano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Michael Seal (conductor), Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 24.9.2014.
Intriguing Choreography in Mats Ek’s Juliet & Romeo
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky et al, Juliet & Romeo: Soloists and corps de ballet of the Royal Swedish Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet Orchestra / Alexander Polianichko – conductor (recorded), Sadler’s Wells, London, 24.9.2014. (JPr)
