United States Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Mendelssohn: Akiko Suwanai (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 1.4.2016. (BJ) Bartók and Mendelssohn: Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Ignat Solzhenitsyn (conductor), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 4.4.2016. (BJ)
Bernard Jacobson
A Superb Quartet Raises Questions of Proportion
United States Salonen, Mozart & Beethoven: Johannes Quartet, Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 31.3.2016. (BJ)
A Memorable Cherubino Meets a Memorable Guitarist
United States García Lorca, Granados, Albéniz, Rodrigo, Montsalvatge, Tárrega, and Falla: Isabel Leonard (mezzo-soprano), Sharon Isbin (guitar), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 29.3.2016 (BJ)
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Celebrates its 30th Anniversary
United States Haydn, Schubert, and Dvořák: Jonathan Biss and Richard Goode (piano), Mark Steinberg (violin), Peter Wiley (cello), Sarah Shafer (soprano), Anthony McGill (clarinet), Brentano Quartet, Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 24.3.2016. (BJ)
Distinguished Work from the Miró Quartet and Ricardo Morales Still Raises an Interpretative Doubt
United States Haydn, Ginastera, and Mozart: Miró Quartet, Ricardo Morales (clarinet), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 16.3.2016. (BJ)
A Worthy Utah Opera Aida Enhanced by Graceful Orchestral Playing
United States Verdi, Aida: Soloists, Utah Opera, Utah Symphony, Ari Pelto (conductor), Janey Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah. 18.3.2016 (BJ)
Celebrating a Stokowski Centennial with the “Symphony of Not Quite a Thousand”
United States Mahler: Soloists, Philadelphia Orchestra, Westminster Symphonic Choir (Joe Miller, director), Choral Arts Society of Washington (Scott Tucker, artistic director), American Boychoir (Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, music director), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 12.3.2016. (BJ)
Dvořák’s Greatest Chamber Work? Three Young Musicians Make the Case
United Kingdom Haydn, Janáček, and Dvořák: Juho Pohjonen (piano), Karen Gomyo (violin), Christian Poltéra (cello), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 9.3.2016 (BJ)