United Kingdom Schubert, Mahler and Beethoven: Brett Polegato (baritone), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / David Afkham (conductor), Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 14:1:2015 (GR).
Concert Reviews
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A ‘Period’ Approach to Romantic Russian Music Brings Mixed Results
United Kingdom Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Sergei Leiferkus (baritone); Chorus of the Mikhailovsky Theatre (pre-recorded); Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 15.1.2015 (CC)
Illuminating and Refreshing Contrasts from Koenigs and WNO Orchestra
United Kingdom Dvořák, Beethoven, Debussy, Bartók: Olga Scheps (piano), Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Lothar Koenigs (conductor). St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 16.1.2005 (PCG)
Soloist/Directors Bring Out Collegiate Nature of Scottish Chamber Orchestra
United Kingdom Stravinsky, Mozart, Beethoven: Jane Atkins (viola), Llŷr Williams (director/piano), Alexander Janiczek (director/violin), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 15.1.2015 (SRT)
Enthusiasm and Passion from the Pacifica Quartet
Canada Haydn, Shostakovich and Beethoven: Pacifica Quartet (Simin Ganatra and Sibbi Bernhardsson, violins; Masumi Per Rostad, viola; Bandon Vamos, cello), Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, BC, 13.1.2015 (GN)
Broadway – Rue du Rhône: Osmo Vänska and Dawn Upshaw in Geneva
Switzerland Bernstein, Weill, Duke, Gershwin, Sondheim, Rachmaninov: Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Osmo Vänskä (conductor), Victoria Hall, Geneva, 13.01.15 (AL)
Rattle and the LSO: Virtuosity in Testing Twentieth-Century Repertoire
United Kingdom Webern, Berg, Ligeti and Stravinsky: Barbara Hannigan (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Barbican Hall, London, 15.1.2015 (AS)
RLPO’s Attractive Programme Pulls in a Large Audience
United Kingdom Shostakovich, Borodin, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Dvořák, Elgar, Tchaikovsky & Arturo Márquez: Tasmin Little (violin), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Manuel López-Gómez (conductor), Guild Hall, Preston, 13.1.2015. (MC)