United States Lucis–Music of Light: Seattle Pro Musica, Karen P. Thomas (conductor), St. James Cathedral, Seattle, 19.5.2013 (bj)
International Concerts
All non-UK concert reviews
Richly Rewarding Program for Four Guitars
United States Guitar Extravaganza: Guitar Stars from Mannes: Old Greenwich Presbyterian Church, Stewartsville, New Jersey, 18.5.2013 (KC)
Enthusiastic Response to Baroque Music at Dresden Festival
Germany J.F. Fasch, J.A. Hasse, J.C. Bach, A. Vivaldi, J.D. Heinichen and G. F. Handel: Dresden Festival Orchestra/Ivor Bolton (director), Giuliano Carmignola (baroque violin), Bejun Mehta (countertenor), Albertinum (Lichthof), Dresden, Germany, 20.5.2013 (MC)
Ending a Season with Fiery 20th-Century Classics
United States Bartók, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Ravel: Cho-Liang Lin (violin), Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Rossen Milanov (conductor), Richardson Auditorium, Princeton, New Jersey, 5.5.2013. (BH)
Everything Great—and Everything Perplexing—from Rattle
United States Webern, Berg, Ligeti, Beethoven: Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York City, 17.5.2013 (DA)
Luisotti and an Italian Showman in a Nino Rota Rarity
United States Puccini, Rota, Brahms: Giuseppe Albanese (piano), San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Cal Performances (co-presenter), Nicola Luisotti (conductor), Zellerbach Hall, University of California, Berkeley. 17.5.2013 (HS)
Civilized Mozart and Hair-Raising Shostakovich from Gerard Schwarz
United States “Russian Spectacular”: Vladimir Feltsman (piano), Ignat Solzhenitsyn (piano, Julian Schwarz (cello), Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz (conductor), Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 9-17.5.2013 (BJ)
Northwest Sinfonietta Plays While the Audience Sips
United States Kodály, Bruch, and Mendelssohn: Mayuko Kamio (violin), Northwest Sinfonietta, Christophe Chagnard (conductor), Pioneer Park Pavilion, Puyallup, Washington, 12.5.2013 (BJ)