Mostly Mozart (5): Noseda Conducts a Fiercely Individual Beethoven’s 9th

United StatesUnited States Mostly Mozart (5) Beethoven: Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Erika Grimaldi (soprano), Anna Maria Chiuri (mezzo-soprano), Russell Thomas (tenor), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass),Concert Chorale of New York, James Bagwell (director), 12.8.2014 (SSM)

Gianandrea Noseda  Photo credit: Noseda© Chris.Christodoulou
Gianandrea Noseda
Photo credit: Noseda© Chris.Christodoulou

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A Bleak Performance from Bostridge

           Edinburgh International Festival 2014 (7) – Mahler, Weill, Britten: IanBostridge & Julius Drake, Queen’s Hall, 12.8.2014 (SRT)   Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Weill: Four Walt Whitman Songs Britten: Who are these Children?   Ian Bostridge cut a remorselessly bleak figure on the platform today.  That’s appropriate enough, given some … Read more

Glyndebourne’s Low-key Traviata Fails to Convince

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Glyndebourne Festival 2014 – Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder (conductor). Filmed ‘live’ at the Glyndebourne Theatre and seen at the Barbican Cinema, London, 10.8.2014. (JPr)

 

Glyndebourne’s La traviata (c) Richard Hubert Smith

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