Wexford Enjoys a Splendid Don Pasquale
22/10/2018
Wexford Festival Opera 2018 [1] – Donizetti, Don Pasquale: Soloists of Wexford Festival Opera / Daniella Pellegrino (Music Director), Clayton Whites Hotel, Wexford, 20.10.2018. (RB)
Wexford Festival Opera’s Don Pasquale (c) Malone Carty
Strongly Characterised and Involving Music-Making from Louise Alder and Stef van Herten
17/10/2018
Oxford Lieder Festival’s The Grand Tour – Gounod, Debussy, Schumann, Richard Strauss, Kreutzer, Lachner, Puccini, Verdi and Donizetti: Louise Alder (soprano), Stef van Herten (horn), Sholto Kynoch (piano). Holywell Music Room, Oxford 15.10.2018. (CR)
A Sparkling and Spirited Display of Fine Pianism and Musical Joie de Vivre to Open the London Piano Festival
04/10/2018
London Piano Festival – Schubert, Granados, Ginastera, Ravel, Debussy, Milhaud: Charles Owen & Katya Apekisheva (piano), Kings Place, London, 3.10.2018. (CS)
Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva (c) Viktor Erik Emanuel
Ne Quittez Pas – Reimagining Poulenc’s La voix humaine
28/09/2018
Festival O18 [3] – Ne Quittez Pas: Soloists / Christopher Allen (music director & pianist), Opera Philadelphia, Theater of the Living Arts, Philadelphia. 22.9.2018. (RP)
Patricia Racette (Elle) in La voix humaine © Opera Philadelphia
Sky on Swings – Love in the Time of Alzheimer’s
25/09/2018
Festival O18 [2] – Lembit Beecher, Sky on Swings: Soloists and Orchestra of Opera Philadelphia / Geoffrey McDonald (conductor), Opera Philadelphia, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts – Perelman Theater, Philadelphia, 22.9.2018. (RP)
Marietta Simpson (Martha) & Frederica von Stade (Danny) © Opera Philadelphia
Brenda Rae Is a Stunning Lucia for Opera Philadelphia
25/09/2018
Festival O18 [1] – Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera Philadelphia / Corrado Rovaris (conductor), Opera Philadelphia, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 21.9.2018. (RP)
Brenda Rae as Lucia © Opera Philadelphia
More Outstanding Performances of Stockhausen in Berln
20/09/2018
Musikfest Berlin 2018 [12] – Stockhausen: Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano, celesta), Dirk Rothbrust (percussion), Benjamin Kobler (piano), Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Marco Stroppa (electronics). Grosser Sendesaal des rbb and Kammermusiksaal, Berlin, 15 & 17.9.2018. (MB) Read more
Exciting and Unusual Juxtaposition of Debussy and Ligeti by François-Xavier Roth
18/09/2018
Musikfest Berlin 2018 [11] – Stravinsky, Zimmermann, Debussy, and Ligeti: Carolin Widmann (violin), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / François-Xavier Roth (conductor). Philharmonie, Berlin, 14.9.2018. (MB) Read more
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