United Kingdom Puccini, Manon Lescaut: (UK Production Premiere) Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Lothar Koenigs (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 8.2.2014 (GPu)
Cardiff
Charm and Grace Abound in Mid-Wales Opera’s Acis and Galatea
United Kingdom Handel, Acis and Galatea (production premiere): Soloists, Chorus and Brecon Baroque / Nicholas Cleobury (conductor) Richard Burton Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 30.1.2014 (GPu)
Well Designed and Purposeful Recital from Osborne
United Kingdom Prokofiev, Ravel, Rachmaninov: Steven Osborne(piano), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 26.1.2014 (GPu)
Sondergård Captures Unfiltered Emotional Impact of Mahler’s Ninth
United Kingdom Mahler. BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thomas Sondergård (conductor). St. David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.2.2014 (PCG)
Modern Danish Music with a Touch of Humour
Ruders, Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Thomas Søndergård (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff. 28.1.2014 (PCG)
‘Sorrow was there made fair’: An All Dowland Programme.
United Kingdom Dowland: Ian Bostridge (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Fretwork (Liam Byrne, Asako Morikawa, Reiko Ichise, Richard Tunnicliffe, Richard Boothby, viols), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 23.01.14. (GPr)
Convincing Performance of Honegger’s Symphonie liturgique
United Kingdom Honegger, Rachmaninov, Fauré: Yevgeny Sudbin* (piano), Elin Manahan Thomas** (soprano), Roderick Williams** (baritone), BBC National Chorus** and Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (conductor). St. David’s Hall, Cardiff. 24.1.2014 (PCG)
Emma Kirkby Reveals the Poetry of Song in a Fine Recital
United Kingdom Haydn, Schubert: Emma Kirkby (soprano), Howard Williams (fortepiano), Reardon Smith Theatre, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 19.01.14.(GP)