United Kingdom Elgar, Britten: Ian Bostridge (tenor) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Michael Seal (conductor) Symphony Hall, Birmingham 6.3.2013. (CT)
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An Entertaining but Perplexing Staging of The Flying Dutchman
United States Richard Wagner, The Fying Duthchman: LA Opera, James Conlon (conductor), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, (9.03.2013) (JRo)
Konwitschny’s Tristan, Meier’s Isolde: Still Young at Fifteen
Germany R. Wagner, Tristan & Isolde: Soloists, Bavarian State Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor), Bavarian State Orchestra, 7.3.2013 (JFL)
Russian Ballet Pyrotechnics in Homage to Nijinsky
United Kingdom Russian Ballet Icons Gala 2013: Vaslav Nijinsky: Soloists, Orchestra of English National Ballet / Valery Ovsyaikov (conductor), London Coliseum, 10.3.2013. (JOD)
The Schubert Ensemble’s Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration
United Kingdom Schubert Ensemble Commissions – Watkins, Cutler, Rushton, Bach-Woolrich, Novák, Knotts, Matthews, and Butler:The Schubert Ensemble (Simon Blendis (violin), Douglas Paterson (viola), Jane Salmon (cello), Peter Buckoke (double bass), William Howard (piano). Hall One, Kings Place, London, 9.3.2013 (MB)
Markus Groh’s Bartók Enhances his Reputation
United Kingdom Beethoven, Bartók, Debussy, Ravel: Markus Groh (piano), Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra Michael Tabachnik (conductor), Cadogan Hall, London, 8.3.2013 (RB)
With Love, from Australia
Italy Bach, Schumann, Ligeti, Liszt: Jayson Gillham (piano) Teatro Ghione, Rome. 10.03.2013 (JB)
Munich Philharmonic at the Hofbräuhaus
Germany Traditional and Festive Marches: Winds of the Munich Philharmonic, Albert Osterhammer (leader), Festsaal of the Hofbräuhaus, Munich, 3.3.2012 (JFL)