United Kingdom Verdi: La traviata (Revival premiere): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Julia Jones (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 12.2.2012. (GPu)
Cardiff
Numinous Sibelius Playing Steals the Show in Cardiff
United Kingdom Sibelius, Elgar: Akiko Suwanai (violin), Jane Irwin(mezzo), BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC Welsh National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen (conductor), St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, 10.2.2012 (GPu)
Accomplishment and Promise from The Benyounes Quartet
United Kingdom Haydn, Brahms: The Benyounes Quartet: Zara Benyounes, Emily Holland (violin), Sara Roberts (viola) Kim Vaughan (cello). Reardon Smith Theatre, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 5.2.2012. (GP)
Ragtime to Rachmaninov: Chaslin in Cardiff
United Kingdom Gershwin, Adams, Rachmaninov: Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Frédéric Chaslin (piano, conductor), St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, 27.1.2012 (GPu)
A Masterly Brahms Piano Quartet Lights Up a Sunday Morning in Cardiff
United Kingdom Dvořák, Brahms: The Frith Piano Quartet: Benjamin Frith (piano), Robert Heard (violin), Louise Williams (viola) Richard Jenkinson (cello). Reardon Smith Theatre, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 15.1.12. GB
Entrancing Christmas Berlioz in Cardiff
United Kingdom Berlioz, L’enfance du Christ: Anna Stephany (mezzo), Barry Banks (tenor), Mathew Brook (bass-baritone), Henry Waddington (bass), BBC National Chorus of Wales, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Chamber Choir, BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Thierry Fischer (conductor), St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, 9.12.11 (GPu)
André Jolivet and ‘l’atmosphère tellurique’ in Cardiff
United KingdomDebussy, Jolivet: Marc Coppey (cello), Jarosłav Augustyniak (bassoon), Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Chamber Choir (women’s voices), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Pascal Rophé (conductor), BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 2.12.2011 (GPu)
Bach, Scarlatti, d’Anglebert and the Quickness of Decay
United Kingdom D’Anglebert, J.S. Bach, D. Scarlatti: Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 11.11.2011 (GPu)