United States Debussy, Dutilleux, Martinů, and Ravel: Xavier Phillips (cello), Seattle Symphony, Ludovic Morlot (conductor), Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 15.3.2012 (BJ)
Bernard Jacobson
Mozarts and Bachs: Allegedly “Like Father, Like Son”
United States Leopold and Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, Johann Sebastian and Johann Christian Bach: Eric Garcia (conductor), Cordula Merks (concertmaster and leader), Susan Gulkis Assadi (viola soloist and leader), Seattle Symphony, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 9.3.2012 (BJ)
Great Pianists Week in Seattle
United States Liszt: Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Meany Hall, Seattle, 7.3.2012 (BJ)
United States Copland, Haydn, Beethoven, and Schumann: Emanuel Ax (piano), Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 11.3.2012 (BJ)
Stagecraft Dominates in Seattle Opera’s Orphée et Eurydice
United States Gluck, Orphée et Eurydice: Seattle Opera, soloists, Gary Thor Wedow (conductor), Jose Maria Condemi (director), Phillip Lienau (sets), Heidi Zamora (costumes), Connie Yun (lighting), Joyce Degenfelder (hair and makeup design), Yannis Adoniou (choreography), Beth Kirchhoff (chorus master), Philip A. Kelsey and David McDade (musical preparation), McCaw Hall, Seattle, 25 & 29.2.2012 (BJ)
Forthright Viennese Classics from Jeffrey Kahane
United States Mozart and Haydn: Jeffrey Kahane (conductor and soloist), Seattle Symphony, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 1.3.2012 (BJ)
Julia Fischer: a Violinist of Stunning Powers
United States Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, and Saint-Saëns: Julia Fischer (violin), Milana Chernyavska (piano), Benaroya Hall, Seattle 20.2.2012 (BJ)
Oregon Symphony Performs a Dream Program
United States Vaughan Williams, Mozart, and Elgar: Jeffrey Kahane (piano), Oregon Symphony, Carlos Kalmar (conductor), Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR, 18.2.2012 (BJ)
Luminous Purcell Paired with Handel and Tallis
United States Purcell, Dido and Aeneas; Handel, Tallis: Soloists, Theatre of Early Music, Daniel Taylor (conductor). Town Hall, Seattle, 11.2.2012 (BJ)