United Kingdom Haydn, Mozart and Mahler: Lucas Debargue (piano), Sofia Fomina (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 12.10.2016. (MB)
This Week’s Review
Deborah Hay’s Figure a Sea Creates a Space for Reflection
United States Deborah Hay, Figure a Sea: Guests and Artists of the Cullberg Ballet, Freud Playhouse UCLA, Los Angeles, 16.10.2016. (JRo)
A Somewhat Uneven but Generally Pleasing Orfeo ed Euridice in Berlin
Germany Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Staatskapelle Berlin and Staatsopernchor/Alessandro de Marchi (conductor), Schiller Theatre, Berlin, 13.10.2016. (JMI)
Suckling Sets Musical World in Motion with his Piano Concerto Premiere
United Kingdom Mozart, Suckling, R. Strauss: Tom Poster (piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Thierry Fischer (conductor), Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 13.10.2016. (SRT)
An Often Rewarding Macbeth Opens the Liceu Opera Season
Spain Verdi, Macbeth: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu / Giampaolo Bisanti (conductor), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 10 & 11.10.2016. (JMI)
Stunning Bartók from the Chilingirian Quartet
United Kingdom Mozart, Bartók, Beethoven: Chilingirian Quartet (Levon Chilingirian & Ronald Birks [violins], Susie Mészáros [viola], Stephen Orton [cello]), Kings Place, London, 9.10.2016. (CS)
Nagano and Hamburg Philharmonic Impress In Buenos Aires
Argentina Wagner, Bruckner: Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano) and Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Kent Nagano (conductor), Mozarteum Argentino at Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 30.9.2016. (JSJ)
Cristian Măcelaru Celebrates Enescu in a Variable Overall Showing
Canada Dvořák, Brahms, Enescu: Arnaud Sussmann (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra/ Cristian Măcelaru (conductor), Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, 1.10.2016. (GN)
