Plácido Domingo’s 2015 Operalia: Finalists, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Plácido Domingo (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 19.7.2015. (JPr)
Plácido Domingo’s Operalia – A flawed competition but with the correct result
Concert Reviews
The complete list of posted concert reviews
Maestri Takes Command in Covent Garden’s Drab Falstaff
United Kingdom Verdi. Falstaff: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Michael Schønwandt.(conductor) Royal Opera House, London, 15.7.2015. (CC)
Highly Committed and Rewarding Performances by the Ealing Symphony Orchestra
United Kingdom Janáček, Ireland, Holst: Rebeca Omordia (piano), Ealing Symphony Orchestra, John Gibbons (conductor), St Barnabas Church, Ealing, London, 18.7.2015 (AS)
Te Kōkī Trio Warms a Winter’s Night
New Zealand Beethoven, Psathas, Ravel: Te Kōkī Trio (Martin Riseley, violin; Inbal Megiddo, cello; Jian Liu, piano), Old Library Arts Centre, Whangarei, New Zealand. 1.7.2015 (Pse)
Fauré and Schumann Piano Quintets Contrasted by Schubert Ensemble
United Kingdom Schumann and Fauré: The Schubert Ensemble (Simon Blendis & Jan Schmolk [violins], Douglas Paterson [viola], Jane Salmon [cello], William Howard [piano]), Wigmore Hall London, 15.7.2015 (CS)
Faculty Pianists Make the Grade
United States Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Bartók, Ravel: Faculty Gala, PianoSummer, State University of New York at New Paltz, Julien J. Studley Theater, New Paltz, 2015.11.7 (SSM)
Enjoyable Baroque Concert from Dame Emma and Mallorcan Musicians
United Kingdom Avison, Pergolesi, Telemann, Handel, Purcell, Worgan, Arne, Storace, Vivaldi: Dame Emma Kirkby (soprano), Ars Musicae of Mallorca (Bernat Cabot, leader), Timothy Roberts (harpsichord), Matthew Dunn (organ), St. Botolph’s without Aldgate, London, 10.7.15 (BW)
French Connections in Gloucestershire: Satie, Messiaen, Joan of Arc
United Kingdom Meurig Bowen, Erik Satie – Memoirs of a Pear Shaped Life; David Bamber (actor), Anne Lovett (piano), Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham, 2.7.2015 (RJ)
Messiaen, Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus (selection) : Cordelia Williams (piano), Michael Symmons Roberts (reciter), Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury , 8.7.2015. (RJ)
Carl Theodor Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc: The Orlando Consort [Matthew Venner, Mark Dobell, Angus Smith, Donald Greig, Robert MacDonald], Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, 8.7.2015. (RJ)