Canada Various: The Choir of King’s College Cambridge / Stephen Cleobury (music director), Richard Gowers and Henry Websdale (organ), Chan Centre, Vancouver, 26.3.2017. (GN)
A Rare and Fulfilling Concert from The Choir of King’s College Cambridge
This Week’s Review
The London Philharmonic on short Swiss tour – with the Pekinel Sisters
Switzerland Ravel, Poulenc, Dvorak: London Philharmonic Orchestra / Howard Griffiths (conductor), Güher and Süher Pekinel (piano) Tonhalle, Zurich, 28.3.2017. (JR)
A Rare Chance to Experience Delius’ Greatest Opera is Compromised by a Greatly Reduced Orchestration
United Kingdom Delius – A Village Romeo and Juliet: Soloists, New Sussex Opera Chorus, Kantanti Ensemble / Lee Reynolds (conductor), Cadogan Hall, London, 28.3.2017 (AS)
Mixed Results from the Schubert Ensemble in Classic and Contemporary Piano-led Works
United Kingdom Watkins, Shostakovich: The Schubert Ensemble (Simon Blendis, Jan Schmolk (violins), Douglas Peterson (viola), Jane Salmon (cello), William Howard (piano). Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff 3.3,2017. (GPu)
Thrillingly Theatrical Impressions in the Music of Bach’s Predecessors
United Kingdom Schütz, Buxtehude, Scheidt and Tunder: Welsh Camerata and instrumentalists, Andrew Wilson-Dickson (director). Church of St John the Evangelist, Cardiff, 25.3.2017. (PCG)
Fine Adriana Lecouvreur Opens Buenos Aires 2017 Season
Argentina Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra / Mario Perusso (conductor), Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, 21.3.2017. (JSJ)
in Teatro Colón’s Adriana Lecouvreur (c) Máximo Parpagnoli
Virtuosity Tempered by Finesse from Mutter and Orkis
United States Currier, Mozart, Respighi, Saint-Saëns: Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Lambert Orkis (piano), presented by San Francisco Performances and San Francisco Symphony, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 26.3.2017. (HS)
Two Choral Ensembles Combine for Old and New
United States Various composers: New York Polyphony, Geoffrey Williams (countertenor), Steven Caldicott Wilson (tenor), Christopher Dylan Herbert (baritone), Craig Phillips (bass), Cathedral Choral Society / Michael McCarthy (guest conductor), Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC. 19.3.2017. (DS)