United States Various: Joélle Harvey (soprano), Allen Perriello (piano), Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, 13.2.2019. (RP)
Joélle Harvey’s Carnegie Hall Recital Climaxes with the World Premiere of Michael Ippolito’s Vanitas
This Week’s Review
The King’s Singers Push Forward to Their Next 50 Years
Canada Royal Blood: Music of King Henry VIII: The King’s Singers (Patrick Dunachie and Edward Button [countertenors], Julian Gregory [tenor], Christopher Bruerton and Nick Ashby [baritones], Jonathan Howard [bass]), Chan Centre, Vancouver, 9.2.2019. (GN)
Authentic and Gripping Dialogue des Carmélites in Stockholm
Sweden Poulenc, Dialogues des Carmélites: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Stockholm Opera / Marc Soustrot (conductor), Royal Stockholm Opera, 9.2.2019. (GF)
© Micke Sandström/Royal Swedish Opera
In Cleveland, Ohlsson Returns with the Busoni Concerto
United States Haydn, Busoni: Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Alan Gilbert (conductor), Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, 9.2.2019. (MSJ)
An Uneven Presentation of Verdi’s Rarely Heard I masnadieri in Valencia
Spain Verdi, I masnadieri: Generalitat Valenciana Chorus, Comunitat Valenciana Orchestra / Roberto Abbado (conductor), Palau de les Arts, Valencia, 9.2.2019. (JMI)
In San Francisco, ‘Recomposed’ with Daniel Hope
United States Vaughan Williams, Schumann, Warlock, Purcell, Max Richter: New Century Chamber Orchestra / Daniel Hope (concertmaster), Wilsey Center for the Arts, San Francisco. 9.2.2019. (HS)
Fine Pianism and a Fascinatingly Diverse Programme from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
United Kingdom Haydn, Schumann, Boulez, Ravel, and Prokofiev: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 10.2.2019. (MB)
Fine Schumann from the LSO and Sir John Eliot Gardiner
United Kingdom Schumann and Beethoven: Piotr Anderszewski (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor), Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London, 10.2.2019 (AS)
