United States Spring for Music, Concert I, “Two Faces of Shostakovich”: Mikhail Svetlov (bass), Houston Symphony, Hans Graf (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York City, 7.5.2012 (BH)
Concert Reviews
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Ashkenazy’s lovingly respectful way with Berlioz and Bruch
United Kingdom Berlioz, Bruch: Alina Pogostkina (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra / Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor), St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, 22.5.2012 (GPu)
Sex, Lies, and Mozart Arias – Notes from the Dresden Music Festival 2012 (3)
Germany The Infernal Comedy: John Malkovich, Sophie Klußmann (soprano), Martene Grimson (soprano), Martin Haselböck (conductor), Vienna Academy Orchestra, Schauspielhaus, Dresden, 23.5.2012 (JFL)
Poetry – and Rhetoric – from Pianist Olli Mustonen
United Kingdom Bach, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov: Olli Mustonen (piano), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh college of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 20.5.2012 (GPu)
Jessye Norman: The Great American Diva Still Has ‘It’
United Kingdom Bernstein, Rodgers, Gershwin, Arlen, Donaldson, Weill, Duke Ellington: Jessye Norman (soprano); Mark Markham (piano). Royal Festival Hall, London, 21.5.2012 (CC)
Notes from the Dresden Music Festival 2012 (2)
Germany Mozart: Martin Haselböck (Silbermann organ), Hofkirche, Dresden, 22.5.2012 (JFL)
A Disappointing First Encounter with Arcadi Volodos
United Kingdom Schubert, Brahms, and Liszt: Arcadi Volodos (piano). Royal Festival Hall, London, 22.5.2012 (MB)
Emanuel Ax Presents a Diversity of Variations
United States Copland, Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann: Emanuel Ax, Carnegie Hall, New York, 17.5.2012 (SSM)