United Kingdom Beethoven and Rzewski: Igor Levit (piano), Wigmore Hall, London, 24.5.2019. (MB)
A Magnificent Recital in Variation Form from Igor Levit
Mark Berry
An Outstanding Account of the Goldberg Variations from Igor Levit
United Kingdom Bach: Igor Levit (piano), Wigmore Hall, London, 22.5.2019. (MB)
Glyndebourne Fails to Make the Case for Staging La Damnation de Faust
United Kingdom Glyndebourne Festival 2019 [1] – Berlioz, La Damnation de Faust: Soloists, Dancers, Glyndebourne Chorus (chorus master: Aidan Oliver), Glyndebourne Youth Opera, Trinity Boys Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Robin Ticciati (conductor). Glyndebourne Opera House, Sussex, 18.5.2019. (MB)
Another Opportunity to Experience Henze’s Phaedra in London
United Kingdom Henze, Phaedra: Soloists, Southbank Sinfonia / Edmund Whitehead (conductor), Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London, 16.5.2019. (MB)
Jerusalem Quartet’s Mastery in Bartók at Wigmore Hall
United Kingdom Bartók: Jerusalem Quartet (Alexander Pvolovsky, Sergei Bresler [violins], Ori Kam [viola], Kyril Zlotnikov [cello]). Wigmore Hall, London, 8.5.2019. (MB)
Louis Lortie Marks His Sixtieth Birthday with an Extraordinary Lisztian Pilgrimage
United Kingdom Liszt: Louis Lortie (piano), Wigmore Hall, London, 28.4.2019. (MB)
Musical Virtues of Staatsoper’s Meistersinger Hampered by Incoherent Production
Germany Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Soloists, Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright), Staatskapelle Berlin / Daniel Barenboim (conductor). Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin. 21.4.2019. (MB)
The Komische Oper’s La bohème is More Memorable than Poro
Germany Puccini, La bohème and Handel, Poro: Soloists, Children’s Chorus (chorus director: Dagmar Fiebach), Chorus (chorus director: David Cavelius), and Orchestra of the Komische Oper, Berlin / Jordan de Souza and Jörg Halubeck (conductors). Komische Oper, Berlin, 19. and 20.4.2019. (MB)
