This Week’s Review – Page 112 – Seen and Heard International

Karabits’s Intense Early Rachmaninov with Bournemouth SO

29/04/201820/04/2018 by Ian Lace

United Kingdom Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky: Nemanja Radulović (violin), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Kirill Karabits (conductor), The Lighthouse, Poole. 18.4.2018. (IL)

Kirill Karabits (left) with Nemanja Radulović, the soloist in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, in rehearsal — Kirill Karabits (left) with Nemanja Radulović in rehearsal

SHIFT – To Change Place, Position, Direction or Surprise

25/04/201818/04/2018 by Rick Perdian

United States SHIFT Festival – Lutosławski, Penderecki: Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Erin Wall (soprano), Renée Tatum (mezzo-soprano), Alyssa Martin (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Cooley (tenor), Liudas Mikalauskas (bass-baritone), Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, Indianapolis Children’s Choir, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra / Krzysztof Urbański (conductor), The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C., 13.4.2018. (RP)

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra at the 2018 SHIFT Festival © Tony Hitchcock — The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra at the 2018 SHIFT Festival
© Tony Hitchcock

Reconstructed Monteverdi Brings Humanity to a Venerable Myth

25/04/201816/04/2018 by Mark S Jordan

United States Monteverdi, L’Orfeo: Soloists, Apollo’s Singers, Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette Sorrell (conductor), Kulas Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, Ohio, 13.4.2018. (MSJ)

Orfeo (Karim Sulayman) attempts to lead Euridice (Erica Schuller) out of the Underworld in the Apollo's Fire production of Montverdi's L'Orfeo. (Photograph courtesy of Apollo's Fire, copyright Erica Brenner Productions.) — Orfeo (Karim Sulayman) & Euridice (Erica Schuller) (c) Erica Brenner Productions

A Very Satisfying Debut for the Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio

25/04/201816/04/2018 by Geoffrey Newman

Canada Schubert, Brahms, Turnage, Ravel: Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio [Nicola Benedetti (violin), Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Alexei Grynyuk (piano)], Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, 8.4.2018. (GN)

Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio (c) Jane Lawrence

High Anxiety with the Boston Symphony Orchestra

25/04/201816/04/2018 by Rick Perdian

United States Bernstein, Shostakovich: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Boston Symphony Orchestra / Andris Nelson (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York, 11.4.2018. (RP)

Andris Nelsons and Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety © Hillary Scott — Andris Nelsons & Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Bernstein’s *The Age of Anxiety* © Hillary Scott

Evocative Bernstein, Machover’s Crowd-Sourced Philadelphia Voices and Spectacular Mussorgsky

19/04/201813/04/2018 by Rick Perdian

United States Bernstein, Machover, Mussorgsky: Dante Michael DiMaio (boy soprano), Westminster Symphonic Choir, Keystone State Boychoir, Pennsylvania Girlchoir, Sister Cities Girlchoir, Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York, 10.4.2018. (RP)

Dante Michael DiMaio & Yannick Nézet-Séguin with the Philadelphia Orchestra
© Jennifer Taylor

Acoustic and Electric Violas in an Ingenious Program

19/04/201811/04/2018 by Bernard Jacobson

United States Mozart, Hummel, Mooke, Fauré: Born Lau (viola), Martha Mooke (electric viola), Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia / Dirk Brossé (conductor), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 2.4.2018. (BJ)

Insights Are Not Always Illuminating

19/04/201809/04/2018 by Bernard Jacobson

United States Schumann, Brahms, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven: Sir András Schiff (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 31.3.2018. (BJ)

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