United States American Mavericks: Soloists, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium and Zankel Hall), New York City. 27-30.3.2012 (BH)
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Intimate “Eroica” by McGegan and the Pasadena Symphony at Ambassador
United States Mendelssohn, Mozart, Beethoven: Nareh Arghamanayan (piano), Pasadena Symphony, Nicholas McGegan (conductor), Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena (California), 30.3.2012 (LV)
Gerard Schwarz Returns with a Characteristic Program
United States Mozart and Mahler: John Lill (piano), Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz (conductor), Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 7.4.2012 (BJ)
Rehabilitating Katerina: Graham Vick’s Lady Macbeth in Gothenburg
Sweden Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District: Gothenburg Opera, Finn Rosengren (conductor),Gothenburg, 24.3.2012 (NS)
A Passion to Inspire from Ex Cathedra
United Kingdom J S Bach, St John Passion, BVW 245: Ex Cathedra Choir, Academy, Soloists and Baroque Orchestra, Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor), Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 5.4.2012 (GR).
Further Thoughts on the Mariinsky Opera’s Parsifal
United Kingdom Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Opera, Ex Cathedra, Valery Gergiev (conductor), Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 6.4.2012. (RJ)
Daniel Barenboim Leads a Mixed Programme of Falla and Ravel
United Kingdom Berlin Staatsoper Festtage (1) – Falla and Ravel: Filarmonica della Scala, Daniel Barenboim (piano/conductor). Philharmonie, Berlin, 6.4.2012 (MB)
Complauding Haydn, Boring Bach, Appreciating Dvořák
Germany Haydn, Bach, Dvořák: David Fray (piano), Andrés Orozco-Estrada (conductor), Munich Philharmonic, Gasteig Philharmonic Hall, Munich, 4.4.2012 (JFL)