United Kingdom Bernstein, Rodgers, Gershwin, Arlen, Donaldson, Weill, Duke Ellington: Jessye Norman (soprano); Mark Markham (piano). Royal Festival Hall, London, 21.5.2012 (CC)
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Notes from the Dresden Music Festival 2012 (2)
Germany Mozart: Martin Haselböck (Silbermann organ), Hofkirche, Dresden, 22.5.2012 (JFL)
A Disappointing First Encounter with Arcadi Volodos
United Kingdom Schubert, Brahms, and Liszt: Arcadi Volodos (piano). Royal Festival Hall, London, 22.5.2012 (MB)
Emanuel Ax Presents a Diversity of Variations
United States Copland, Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann: Emanuel Ax, Carnegie Hall, New York, 17.5.2012 (SSM)
Notes from the Dresden Music Festival 2012 (1)
Germany Mozart: Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Summer Palace, Grosser Garten, Dresden, 21.5.2012 (JFL)
New Zealand String Quartet Stands and Delivers
New Zealand Beethoven: New Zealand String Quartet – Helene Pohl, Douglas Beilman (violins), Gillian Ansell (viola), Rolf Gjelsten (cello), The Old Library Arts Centre, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand, 10.5.2012. [PSe]
A Don Giovanni with a Difference in Dresden
Germany Mozart, Don Giovanni (1787): Soloists, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor, Staatskapelle Dresden/Mihkel Kütson (conductor). Semper Opera House, Dresden, Germany 19.5.2012. (MC)
WNO’s Tristan and Isolde was Sound but Lacking in Impulse
United Kingdom Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists. Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Lothar Koenigs (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff 19.5.2012. (LRK)