Dvořák, Janáček: Takács Quartet with Graham Mitchell (double bass), Wigmore Hall, London, 23.2.2014
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A Lively Evening with Nigel Kennedy
United Kingdom Bach Plus (Bach meets Kennedy): Nigel Kennedy and musicians. Basildon Towngate, Basildon, Essex, 26.2.2014. (JPr)
Black and Asian Dancers Steeped in Classical Ballet Tradition
United Kingdom Limbo, Two of a Kind, A Dream Within a Midsummer Night’s Dream: Ballet Black, Royal Opera House (Linbury Studio Theatre), London, 26.02.2014 (JO’D)
Vancouver Island Does Naxos Island Proud
Canada Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos: Pacific Opera Victoria, soloists, Oriol Tomas (director), Ian Rye (set designer), Sheila White (costume designer)), Kimberly Purtell (lighting designer), Jacques Lemay (choreographer), Victoria Symphony, Timothy Vernon (conductor), Royal Theatre, Victoria, British Columbia, 21.2.2014 (BJ)
Power and Electricity from Nézet-Séguin
United States Smetana, Bartók, Dvořák: Radu Lupu (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York City. 3.2.2014 (BH)
Resolute Playing by Lewis in Mozart’s Concerto No 25
United Kingdom Richard Strauss, Mozart, Beethoven: Ruby Hughes (soprano), Paul Lewis (piano), Manchester Camerata/Gábor Takács-Nagy, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 22.2.2014 (MC)
Lucia di Lammermoor at La Scala: Playing Safe Does Not Always Work
Italy Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Orchestra and Chorus Teatro alla Scala, Pier Giorgio Morandi (conductor), La Scala, Milan, 19 & 21.2.2014 (JMI).
Melville’s Whale Spawns a Successor
United States MATA Interval 7.2, Moby Dick: Extracts on Death and Other Curiosities: West Fourth New Music Collective, ISSUE Project Room, New York City. 21.2.2014 (DS)
