This Week’s Review – Page 175 – Seen and Heard International

Pintscher Directs an Orchestral Theme of Travel

28/02/201724/02/2017 by Mark S Jordan

United States Pintscher, Saint-Saëns, Schoenberg, Debussy: Cedric Tiberghien (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Matthias Pintscher (conductor), Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio. 23.2.2017. (MSJ)

Matthias Pintscher conducts the Cleveland Orchestra © Roger Mastroianni, Courtesy of The Cleveland Orchestra — Matthias Pintscher conducts the Cleveland Orchestra
© Roger Mastroianni (courtesy of The Cleveland Orchestra)

Dutoit, Fischer and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich all on Top Form

28/02/201724/02/2017 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Bartók, Tchaikovsky: Tonhalle Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor), Julia Fischer (violin) Tonhalle, Zurich 23.2.2017. (JR)

Apollo’s Fire: Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts

07/11/201722/02/2017 by Mark S Jordan

United States Bach, Telemann: Apollo’s Fire: Debra Nagy (oboe), Olivier Brault (violin), Francis Colpron and Kathie Stewart (recorders and flutes), René Schiffer (cello), Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord/conductor). Bath Church, Akron, Ohio, 20.2.2017. (MSJ)

A Dispiriting, Disappointing Premiere … and Not Really Opera Either

24/02/201722/02/2017 by José Irurzun

Spain Mendoza, La Ciudad de las Mentiras: Orchestra of Teatro Real / Titus Engel (conductor), Teatro Real, Madrid, 20.2.2017. (JMI)

La Ciudad de las Mentiras © Javier del Real — *La Ciudad de las Mentiras* © Javier del Real

Opera North Unleashes a ‘Floodtide of Fantasy’ in New Production of Cinderella

24/02/201721/02/2017 by John Leeman

United Kingdom Rossini, Cinderella: Soloists and Chorus of Opera North / Wynn Davies (conductor), Grand Theatre, Leeds. 16.2.2017. (JL)

Amy J Payne as Tisbe, Henry Waddington as Don Magnifico, and Sky Ingram as Clorinda. Photo credit: Alistair Muir. — Amy J Payne as Tisbe, Henry Waddington as Don Magnifico, & Sky Ingram as Clorinda
(c) Alistair Muir

Departure and Discovery from Jonathan Biss

24/02/201720/02/2017 by Bernard Jacobson

United States Bach, Kurtág, Britten, Beethoven: Brentano Quartet, Jonathan Biss (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 16.2.2017. (BJ)

A Journey in Words, Music and Images: a ‘Parallel’ Winterreise at the Wigmore Hall

22/02/201716/02/2017 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom Schubert, Winterreise – A Parallel Journey: Matthew Rose (bass), Gary Matthewman (piano) in collaboration with Victoria Crowe (artist). Wigmore Hall, London 15.2.2017 (CS)

Victoria Crowe, 'Into an Older Land'; (c) Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture — Victoria Crowe’s ‘Into an Older Land’ (c) Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture

New Carmen Riffs on Picasso’s Guernica

22/02/201715/02/2017 by James Zychowicz

United States Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Lyric Opera of Chicago / Harry Bicket (conductor), Civic Opera House, Chicago. 11.2.2017. (JLZ)

Ekaterina Gubanova and Joseph Calleja in 'Carmen' (Photo: Todd Rosenberg) — Ekaterina Gubanova and Joseph Calleja in *Carmen* (c) Todd Rosenberg

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