Italy Bernstein, Candide: Teatro dell’ Opera, Rome, 18.1.2012 (JB)
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New Adès and Old Mahler
United States Adès and Mahler: New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert (conductor), Avery Fisher Hall, New York City. 7.1.2012 (BH)
Maureen O’Flynn at Feinstein’s in NYC
United States Maureen O’Flynn, “At the Crossroads”: Maureen O’Flynn (soprano), Feinstein’s, New York City. 10.1.2012 (BH)
The Zehetmair Quartet Confirms its Pedigree at the Wigmore Hall
United Kingdom Mozart, Hindemith, Beethoven: Zehetmair Quartet (Thomas Zehetmair, Kuba Jakowicz, violins; Ruth Killius, viola; Ursula Smith, cello) Wigmore Hall, London. 17.1.2012 (CC)
Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO Continue Their Prokofiev Festival
United Kingdom Prokofiev: Steven Osborne (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London, 18.1.2012 (Gdn)
Seattle Opera’s Attila is a Mixed Success
United States Verdi, Attila: Seattle Opera, Soloists, Carlo Montanaro (conductor). McCaw Hall, Seattle, 14.1.2012 (BJ)
Rare Oratorios from the Seventeenth Century
United States Carissimi and Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Stephen Stubbs (music director), Guillaume Bernardi (stage director), Christine Meyers (costume designer), Reed Nakayama (lighting designer), Josh Rietveldt (stage manager), solo singers and instrumentalists, St James Cathedral, Seattle, 13.1.2012 (BJ)
A Masterly Brahms Piano Quartet Lights Up a Sunday Morning in Cardiff
United Kingdom Dvořák, Brahms: The Frith Piano Quartet: Benjamin Frith (piano), Robert Heard (violin), Louise Williams (viola) Richard Jenkinson (cello). Reardon Smith Theatre, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 15.1.12. GB