United States Tavener, Duruflé, Biebl, Schütz, et al: Seattle Pro Musica, Karen P. Thomas (conductor); Seattle Girls Choir Prime Voci, Jacob Winkler (conductor); Northwest Girlchoir Ensemble, Sara Boos (conductor); St. James Cathedral Jubilate!, Stacey Sunde (conductor), St. James Cathedral, Seattle, 20.5.2012 (BJ)
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Busoni Behemoth Brings Out Hamelin’s Best
United States Spring for Music, Concert III: Hila Plitmann (soprano), Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Men of the Westminster Symphonic Choir, Joe Miller (WSC director), New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Lacombe (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York City, 9.5.2012 (BH)
Houston Symphony Kicks Off Carnegie’s “Spring for Music”
United States Spring for Music, Concert I, “Two Faces of Shostakovich”: Mikhail Svetlov (bass), Houston Symphony, Hans Graf (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York City, 7.5.2012 (BH)
Ashkenazy’s lovingly respectful way with Berlioz and Bruch
United Kingdom Berlioz, Bruch: Alina Pogostkina (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra / Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor), St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, 22.5.2012 (GPu)
Opera North Set High Standards with its Carousel
United Kingdom Rodgers & Hammerstein, Carousel: Soloists, Orchestra, Chorus and Dancers of Opera North, The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays, 23-26.5.2012 (RJF)
Sex, Lies, and Mozart Arias – Notes from the Dresden Music Festival 2012 (3)
Germany The Infernal Comedy: John Malkovich, Sophie Klußmann (soprano), Martene Grimson (soprano), Martin Haselböck (conductor), Vienna Academy Orchestra, Schauspielhaus, Dresden, 23.5.2012 (JFL)
Poetry – and Rhetoric – from Pianist Olli Mustonen
United Kingdom Bach, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov: Olli Mustonen (piano), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh college of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 20.5.2012 (GPu)
Judge Me Paris: A Baroque Burlesque Opera
United States Eccles, Judge Me Paris:A Baroque Burlesque Opera, Company XIV, 303 Bond St. Theatre, Brooklyn, New York, 20.5.2012 (SSM)