Bizet: Carmen, Soloists, Chorus and Children’s Chorus of Opernhaus Zürich, Philharmonia Zürich,Vasily Petrenko (conductor), Opernhaus Zürich, 3.07.14 (RP)
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Gower Festival’s First Accordionist Gets Standing Ovation
United Kingdom Schnittke, Bach, Lobos, Piazzolla, Bartok, Monti: Ksenja Sidorova (accordion) and Thomas Gould (violin), Swansea, 2,7.2014 (LJ).
Fairy-tale Magic of the Vocal Sort in Frankfurt
Germany Dvorak: Rusalka, Soloists, Opera Frankfurt Chorus, Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Johannes Debus (conductor), Opera Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, 28.06.14 (RP)
RNCM Opera’s Company Has Authentic Sixties Feel
United Kingdom Stephen Sondheim, Company: RNCM Opera, The RNCM Ensemble / Julian Kelly (music director), MMU Capitol Theatre, Manchester, 25.6.2014 (MC)
Piazzolla’s Passacaglia Meets Vivaldi’s Virtuosity with WNO String Ensemble.
United Kingdom Shostakovich, Arensky, Vivaldi/Piazzolla: WNO String Ensemble, David Adams, leader, RWCMD, Cardiff, 25/06/14 (LJ).
Elevated Sensitivity and Commitment from Jubilee Quartet
United Kingdom Haydn, Webern & Beethoven: Jubilee String Quartet [Tereza Privratska (violin I), Alma Olite (violin II), Stephanie Edmundson (viola), Lauren Steel (cello)],The White Church, (Fairhaven United Reformed Church), Lytham St. Annes, 19.6.2014 (MC)
Photo Courtesy of Jubilee String Quartet
Italianate Ardour in Pappano’s Manon Lescaut
United Kingdom Puccini, Manon Lescaut: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Broadcast to the Empire Cinema, Basildon, Essex, 24.6.2014. (JPr)
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A Liederabend Like No Other
Schumann, Mahler: Liederabend, Matthias Goerne (baritone), Alexander Schmalcz (piano), Zürich Opernhaus, Zurich, 23.6.14 (RP)