Spain Amadeo Vives, Doña Francisquita: Liceu Orchestra and Chorus / Óliver Díaz (conductor), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 11 & 12.11.2019. (JMI)
Doña Francisquita – nicely sung zarzuela on stage at Barcelona’s Liceu
This Week’s Review
Vasily Petrenko’s Carnegie Hall debut with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
United States Weber, Mozart, Shostakovich: Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York, 9.11.2019. (RP)
Vale of Glamorgan Festival 2020 preview concert
United Kingdom Huw Watkins, Michael Zev Gordon, John Luther Adams, Helen Grime: Huw Watkins (piano), David Adams (violin and viola), Matthew Hunt (clarinet). St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 12.11.2019. (PCG)
The Prague Symphony Orchestra excels in Mahler’s Third a Cadogan Hall
United Kingdom Mahler: Ester Pavlů (mezzo soprano), Tiffin Boys’ Choir, Ladies of the Brighton Festival Chorus, FOK Prague Symphony Orchestra / Pietari Inkinen. Cadogan Hall, London, 12.11.2019. (CC)
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Devon Baroque dispenses its own brand of ‘complementary medicine’ to soothe fevered brows at Dartington
United Kingdom Malady & the Power of Music: Devon Baroque, Persephone Gibbs (director/violin), Andrew Wilson-Dickson (director/harpsichord). Great Hall, Dartington, 10.11.2019. (PRB)
The pleasure of Albrecht Mayer’s oboe at Vancouver’s Chan Centre
Canada Haydn, Mozart, Fiala: Albrecht Mayer (oboe, English horn and director), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Chan Centre, Vancouver, 25.10.2019. (GN)
Thrilling Old Testament prophecy in Birmingham
United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Elijah Op.70: Keri Fuge (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Robert Murray (tenor); Matthew Brook (baritone), CBSO Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Kazuki Yamada (conductor), Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 7.11.2019. (JQ)
Anja Kampe blazes in Oper Frankfurt’s Lady Macbeth of Mstensk
Germany Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of Mstensk: Soloists, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester / Sebastian Weigle (conductor), Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, 3.11.2019. (RP)
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