Germany Wagner, Götterdämmerung: Staatskapelle and Staatsopernchor Dresden / Christian Thielemann (conductor), Semperoper, Dresden, 1.11.2017. (JMI)
Thielemann and a Stellar Cast Triumph in Götterdämmerung
This Week’s Review
A Celebration of the Banff Competition-Winning Rolston Quartet and R. Murray Schafer
Canada Schubert, Schafer, Tchaikovsky: Rolston String Quartet [Luri Lee and Jeffrey Dydra (violins), Hezekiah Leung (viola), Jonathon Lo (cello)], Dunbar Ryerson United Church, Vancouver, 26.10.2017. (GN)
An Eclectic Programme from Scottish CO – Rautavaara, Vasks, Respighi, and Copland
United Kingdom Rautavaara, Vasks, Respighi, Copland: Maxim Rysanov (viola), Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Olari Elts (conductor), Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 02.11.2017. (SRT)
Standing Ovation for Vondráček’s Thunderous Rachmaninov Third Piano Concerto
United Kingdom Glinka, Kalinnikov, Rachmaninov: Lukás Vondráček (piano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Kees Bakels (conductor). Lighthouse, Poole, 1.11.2017. (IL)
China meets Bruckner and the Wizardry of the HK Phil under Jaap van Zweden
China Bruckner: Hong Kong Philharmonic / Jaap van Zweden (conductor), Poly Theatre, Beijing, 28.10.2017. (LPL)
Elder and the Hallé Breathe New Life into Old Warhorses
United Kingdom Ravel, Debussy, Mussorgsky/Ravel: Sergio Castello-Lopez (clarinet), Hallé Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder (conductor). St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 1.11.2017. (PCG)
Simone Dinnerstein Rethinks The Goldberg Variations
United States Bach, The Goldberg Variations: Simone Dinnerstein (piano), Pam Tanowitz (choreography), Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, 22.10.2017. (KG)
Composer Speaks Up for the Environment: An Interview with Margaret Brouwer
Mark Sebastian Jordan Encounters Margaret Brouwer
American composer Margaret Brouwer will be premiering an oratorio, Voice of the Lake, on November 12 in Cleveland. Though she grew up in Michigan, the composer now lives near Lake Erie in Ohio, where she served as head of the composition department of the Cleveland Institute of Music until 2008. By her own reckoning, she has a special relationship with nature in general, and water in particular, which is reflected in many of her pieces.
(c) Christian Steiner