United States Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Mendelssohn: Akiko Suwanai (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 1.4.2016. (BJ) Bartók and Mendelssohn: Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Ignat Solzhenitsyn (conductor), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 4.4.2016. (BJ)
This Week’s Review
A Superb Quartet Raises Questions of Proportion
United States Salonen, Mozart & Beethoven: Johannes Quartet, Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 31.3.2016. (BJ)
A Memorable Cherubino Meets a Memorable Guitarist
United States García Lorca, Granados, Albéniz, Rodrigo, Montsalvatge, Tárrega, and Falla: Isabel Leonard (mezzo-soprano), Sharon Isbin (guitar), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 29.3.2016 (BJ)
Joshua Bell’s Distinctive Way with Tchaikovsky
United Kingdom Nielsen, Sibelius, Anders Hillborg, Tchaikovsky: Joshua Bell (violin), London Symphony Orchestra/Alan Gilbert (conductor), Barbican Hall, London, 3.4.2016 (CS)
Kaleidoscopic Schumann Brushes Against Copland’s Modernist Side
United States Copland, Schumann: Inon Barnatan (piano), San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 31.3.2016 (HS)
Polish National Opera Mounts Provocative, Uncompromising Salome
Poland Strauss: Salome, Soloists, Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki, Stefan Soltesz (conductor), Polish National Opera, Moniuszko Auditorium, Teatr Wielki, Warsaw 29.03.2016 (RP)
Dance of the Seven Veils © Krzysztof Bieliński
Nicholas Collon Joins the List of Champions for Mahler’s Tenth Symphony
United Kingdom Webern, Brahms, Mahler: CBSO Youth Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Collon (conductor), Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 31.3.2016 (JQ)
Towering Bruckner Fourth from Sanderling and the Tonhalle
Switzerland Widmann & Bruckner: Tonhalle Orchestra, Michael Sanderling (conductor), Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet), Tonhalle, Zurich, 31.3.16. (JR)
