Spain Handel, Jephtha (concert performance): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Il Pomo d’Oro / Francesco Corti (conductor). Teatro Real, Madrid, 1.5.2025. (JMI)
Handel’s Jephtha is presented for the first time in Madrid’s Teatro Real
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra shines under Mäkelä’s baton in Brahms, Boulez and Dvořák
United States Brahms, Boulez, Dvořák: Daniil Trifonov (piano), Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Klaus Mäkelä (conductor). Orchestra Hall, Chicago, 2.5.2025. (ZC)
The Jerusalem Quartet brings their Shostakovich cycle to a visionary close in Cleveland
United States Shostakovich Cycle [2]: Jerusalem Quartet (Alexander Pavlovsky, Sergei Bresler [violins], Ori Kam [viola], Kyril Zlotnikov [cello]). Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 30.4.2025. (MSJ)
Klaus Mäkelä leads the Chicago Symphony in a vivid Mahler’s Third Symphony
United States Mahler, Symphony No.3 in D minor: Wiebke Lehmkuhl (contralto), Uniting Voices of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Klaus Mäkelä (conductor). Symphony Center, Chicago, 25.4.2025. (JLZ)
Brief invitation to long farewell: a journey of transformation with The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
United States Chabrier, Adès, Mahler: Susanna Phillips (soprano), Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano), Ben Bliss (tenor), The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, 28.4.2025. (ES-S)
Aziz Shokhakimov’s Stravinsky allows the Strasbourg Philharmonic to show its virtuoso colours
France Debussy (orch. Büsser), Mozart, Stravinsky: Jan Lisiecki (piano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg / Aziz Shokhakimov (conductor). Salle Érasme, Palais de la musique et des Congrès, Strasbourg, France, 25.2.2025. (CC)
Eleonora Buratto was an outstanding Cio-Cio-San in Berlin Philharmonic’s exceptional Madama Butterfly
Germany Puccini, Madama Butterfly (concert performance): Soloists, Rundfunkchor Berlin (chief conductor: Gijs Leenaars), Berliner Philharmoniker / Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Broadcast live from the Berlin Philharmonie (directed by Michael Beyer) on the Digital Concert Hall, 27.4.2025. (JPr)
The Canton Symphony, Ohio’s hidden gem, shines in Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony
United States Vaughan Williams, Boyle – ‘Voyage on the High Seas’: Dashon Burton (bass-baritone), Bonnie Frauenthal (soprano), Canton Symphony Chorus (director: Doug Beery), Mount Union Concert Choir (director; Beth Polen), Canton Symphony Orchestra / Matthew Jenkins Jaroszewicz (conductor). Umstattd Hall at Zimmermann Symphony Center, Canton, 26.4.2025. (MSJ)
