Boston Symphony Orchestra Opens Tanglewood Season with Elegant Mozart and Magnificent Mahler
09/07/2019
Tanglewood [1] – Mozart, Mahler: Emmanuel Ax (piano), Boston Symphony Orchestra / Andris Nelsons (conductor), Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA, 5.7.2019. (RP)
Andris Nelsons and the BSO © Hilary Scott
Donizetti Trio Works Wonders In Whangarei
05/07/2019
Vivaldi, Donizetti, Jennings, Fauré, Koechlin, Hoadley, Mozart: Donizetti Trio (Luca Manghi, [flute], Ben Hoadley [bassoon], David Kelly [piano]), Old Library, Whangarei, New Zealand, 30.6.2019. (PSe) Read more
Replacing Tilson Thomas, Brabbins Creates French Magic in San Francisco
02/07/2019
Debussy, Fauré, Ravel: Soloists, Young Women’s Chorus of San Francisco (director: Susan McMane), San Francisco Boys Chorus (director: Ian Robertson), San Francisco Symphony Chorus (director: Ragnar Bohlin), San Francisco Symphony / Martyn Brabbins (conductor), Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. 27.6.2019. (HS)
Martyn Brabbins (c) Ben Ealovega
For Maestro Morlot’s Seattle Finale, Love Is the Word
02/07/2019
Wagner, Debussy, Janáček: Maria Mannisto (soprano), Ludovit Ludha (tenor), Seattle Symphony Chorale, Northwest Boy Choir, Seattle Symphony / Ludovic Morlot (conductor), Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 22.6.2019. (ZC)
Ludovic Morlot (c) Lisa Marie Mazzucco
Auckland Youth Orchestra’s Exceptional Prokofiev Seventh
01/07/2019
Richard Strauss, Jules Mouquet, Prokofiev: Henry Close (horn), Jacob Webster (flute), Auckland Youth Orchestra / Antun Poljanich (conductor). The Old Library, Whangarei, New Zealand, 22.6.2019. (PSe) Read more
Beethoven Invigorates a Day of Chamber Music in Montréal
01/07/2019
Bach, Beethoven, Honegger, Ysaÿe: James Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano), Carissa Klopoushak, Christina Bouey, Amy Hillis, Emmanuel Vukovich (violins), Cameron Crozman (cello), Richard Raymond (piano). Bourgie Hall, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal. 14.6.2019. (LV)
James Ehnes (c) Ben Ealovega
An Imaginative Presentation of Mozart’s Requiem that is More than Multi-Layered
01/07/2019
Mozart, Requiem K626 (original fragments): accentus, Insula Orchestra / Laurence Equilbey (conductor). La Seine Musicale, Paris, France, 27.6.2019 (CC)
(c) Julien Benhamou
Blomstedt’s Beautiful Brahms at Tonhalle Zurich
28/06/2019
Brahms: Janine Jansen (violin), Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich / Herbert Blomstedt (conductor), Tonhalle Maag, Zurich 27.6.2019. (JR)
Herbert Blomstedt (c) Martin Lengemann
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