Germany Princess Amalie of Saxony, La casa disabitata: soloists, Helmut Branny (conductor), Dresden Chapel Soloists, Summer Palace, Grosser Garten, 27.5.2012 (JFL)
Dresden
Andsnes Brings Palpable Freshness to Beethoven’s Concertos
Germany Beethoven, Stravinsky, Beethoven: Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Leif Ove Andsnes (conductor and piano soloist), Dresden Music Festival 2012, Semper Opera House, Dresden, Germany 11.00am, 20.05.12 (MC)
All You Can Hear: Notes from the Dresden Music Festival 2012 (6)
Germany “All You Can Hear” et al.: Vadim Gluzman, Vadim Repin, Patricia Kopatchinkskaja (violin), Kristian Järvi, Markus Poschner (conductors), MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baltic Youth Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, various venues, Dresden, 26.5.2012 (JFL)
Notes from the Dresden Music Festival 2012 (5)
Germany Bruckner: Christian Thielemann (conductor), Dresden Staatskapelle, Semperoper, Dresden, 25.5.2012 (JFL)
Marvellously Entertaining L’elisir d’amore at Dresden’s Semper Oper
Germany Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore(1832): Sächsischer Staatsopernchor, Staatskapelle Dresden/Riccardo Frizza (conductor), Semper Opera House, Dresden, Germany 21.5.2012 (MC)
Impressive Performance by Pavel Haas Quartet at Schloss Albrechtsberg
Germany Pavel Haas, Smetana, Schubert: Pavel Haas Quartet (Veronika Jaruskova, 1st violin, Eva Karova, 2nd violin, Pavel Nikl, viola, Peter Jarusek, cello, Dresden Music Festival 2012, Schloss Albrechtsberg, Dresden, Germany 18.5.2012 (MC)
Lively Characterful Playing from NDR Symphony Orchestra
Germany Schumann, Brahms: NDR Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor), Dresden Music Festival 2012, Semper Opera House, Dresden, Germany 17.5.2012 (MC)
Bach, Death, and Antihistamines: Notes from the Dresden Music Festival 2012 (4)
Germany Bach, Sinfonias & Arias: Ian Bostridge (tenor), Steven Devine (conductor, harpsichord & organ), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Frauenkirche, Dresden, 24.5.2012 (JFL)