United States Mazzoli, The Listeners: Soloists, Opera Philadelphia Chorus & Orchestra / Corrado Rovaris (conductor). Opera Philadelphia, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 27.9.2024. (RP)
Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners hums along at Opera Philadelphia
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Where Art Meets Science: a successful Churchill College conjoining of music and lecture
United Kingdom Where Art Meets Science – Marin, Campbell, Mendelssohn-Hensel, plus Professor Dame Athene Donald (speaker): Marsyas Trio, Rosalyn Hart, Emily Chung (violins), Rachel Stott (viola), Ewan Campbell (double bass). Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Cambridge, 28.9.2024. (CC)
Extra dimensions from dance lift Julia Bullock’s touching Messiaen song cycle in Berkeley
United States Messiaen, Harawi: Julia Bullock (soprano), Conor Hanick (piano), American Modern Opera Company. Presented by Cal Performances, Zellerbach Hall, University of California Berkeley, 27.9.2024. (HS)
Stewart Goodyear and ‘Symphonic Cinema’ successfully send off Vancouver Symphony’s new season
Canada Morlock, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky: Stewart Goodyear (piano), Symphonic Cinema (director: Lucas van Woerkum), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra / Otto Tausk (conductor). Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, 20.9.2024. (GN)
Emelyanychev and Isserlis launch the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s 51st season with Dvořák masterworks
United Kingdom Dvořák: Steven Isserlis (cello), Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor). City Halls, Glasgow, 27.9.2024. (GT)
Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC SO in a paradoxical Mahler Sixth
United Kingdom Mahler: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor), Barbican, London, 26.9.2024. (MBr)
Ariadne auf Naxos opens the season in Zurich with Ziyi Dai as a phenomenal Zerbinetta
Switzerland R. Strauss, Ariadne Auf Naxos: Soloists, Philharmonia Zurich / Markus Poschner (conductor). Zurich Opera, 25.9.2024. (MF)
Nico Muhly’s vivid Piano Concerto riffs on French Baroque ideals in its SF Symphony world premiere
United States Hindemith, Muhly, Bach: Alexandre Tharaud (piano), San Francisco Symphony / Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 28.9.2024. (HS)
