Canada Mozart, Dvořák, Brahms: Chad Hoopes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra / Eivind Gullberg Jensen (conductor), Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, 16.2.2019. (GN)
Hoopes and Gullberg Jensen Expose a Different Magic in Dvořák’s Violin Concerto
This Week’s Review
Symphony Orchestra of India, First UK Tour
United Kingdom Rimsky-Korsakov, Saint-Saëns,Weber: Marat Bisengaliev (violin), Symphony Orchestra of India / Martyn Brabbins (conductor). St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 21.2.2019. (PCG)
Philippe Herreweghe Leads the Philharmonia in a Most Uplifting Concert
United Kingdom Bach and Mozart: Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra / Philippe Herreweghe (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, 21.2.2019. (AS)
Opera Vlaanderen’s New Cardillac Strikes Gold
Belgium Hindemith, Cardillac: Soloists, Koor Opera Vlaanderen, Symfonisch Orkest Opera Vlaanderen / Dmitri Jurowski (conductor), Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerp Opera House, 10.2.2019. (SS)
Geneva’s Grand Théâtre Reopens With Dieter Dorn’s Ring Revival
Switzerland Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen: – Soloists, Chœur du Grand Théâtre de Genève, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Georg Fritzsch (conductor). Grand Théâtre de Genève, 12 – 17.2.2019 (ALL)
Legrenzi’s La Divisione del Mondo in Strasbourg
France Legrenzi, La Divisione del Mondo (ed. Haselbock): Soloists, Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset (conductor). Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg, France, 16.2.2019. (CC)
In Philadelphia, Total Mastery in Schubert from the Orion String Quartet
United States Schubert: Orion String Quartet, Peter Wiley (cello), Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 17.2.2019. (BJ)
Virtuosity, but not Veracity, from Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider at Wigmore Hall
United Kingdom Beethoven, Brahms, Shostakovich, Prokofiev: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (violin), Robert Kulek (piano), Wigmore Hall, London, 13.2.2019. (CS)
