Canada Beethoven, Mozart: Emanuel Ax (piano), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra / Bramwell Tovey (conductor), Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, 18.1.2017. (GN)
Emanuel Ax Fashions a Crowd-Pleasing Doubleheader
This Week’s Review
Opera Warwick’s Die Fledermaus in Coventry
United Kingdom Johann Strauss: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera Warwick / Paul McGrath (conductor), University of Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK, 19.1.2017. (RD)
Joshua Bell and the ASMF: Wonderful Music-Making – and Smiles All Round!
United Kingdom Beethoven, Mendelssohn: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Joshua Bell (director/violin), Cadogan Hall, London, 19.1.2017. (CS)
Illuminating Bach from Butt and his Dunedin Consort
United Kingdom J.S. Bach: Dunedin Consort/John Butt (director & keyboards), Emily Mitchell (soprano), Meg Bragle (alto), Nicholas Mulory (tenor), Jonathan Sells (bass), Katy Bircher (flute), Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 20.1.2017. (SRT)
A Revelatory Opening to Barenboim’s Bruckner Cycle
United States Mozart, Bruckner: Staatskapelle Berlin / Daniel Barenboim (conductor and piano), Carnegie Hall, New York City, 19.1.2017. (BH)
Technical Excellence and Uncomplicated Enjoyment from the Galliard Ensemble
United Kingdom Ferenc Farkas, Gustav Holst, Luciano Berio: Galliard Ensemble (Kathryn Thomas, flute; Owen Dennis, oboe; Katherine Spencer, clarinet; Richard Bayliss, horn; Helen Storey, bassoon). Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. 13.1.2017. (GP)
Piortr Beczala as Werther Triumphs at the Liceu
Spain Massenet, Werther: Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu / Alain Altinoglu (conductor), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 15 & 17.1.2017. (JMI)
Cinematic Rachmaninoff and Soft Shostakovich from Simone Lamsma and Otto Tausk
Canada Wagner, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff: Simone Lamsma (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra / Otto Tausk (conductor), Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, 14.1.2017. (GN)
