United Kingdom Skryabin: Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Wigmore Hall London, 27.4.2015 (CS)
London
Political Protest Fails to Silence the Jerusalem Quartet
United Kingdom Mozart, Janáček, and Schubert: Jerusalem Quartet (Alexander Pavlovsky, Sergei Bresler (violins), Ori Kam (viola), Kyril Zlotnikov (cello)). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 24.4.2015 (MB)
Three Quartets in a Minor Key from the Arcanto
United Kingdom Beethoven, Smetana, Schumann: Arcanto Quartet, Wigmore Hall London, 25.4.2015 (GD)
Janáček Provides the Highlight in Tomáš Netopil’s LPO Programme
United Kingdom Wagner, Beethoven, Janáček Andrea Danková (sop); Karen Cargill (mezzo); Aleš Briscein (tenor); Jochen Schmeckenbecher (bass); Orfeó Catalàl Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música Catalana; London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra/Tomáš Netopil. Royal Festival Hall, London, 25.4.2015 (CC)
Highly Cinematic Mascagni/Leoncavallo Double Bill from The Met
United States Mascagni, Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo, Pagliacci: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Fabio Luisi (conductor), Relayed to the Odeon Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex, 25.4.2015. (JPr)
Thoughtful Stagings of Music by Georg Haas at the Royal Opera
United Kingdom ATTHIS (a staging of Georg Friedrich Haas’s Second String Quartet and the song cycle ATTHIS): Claire Booth (soprano), Laure Bachelot and Rachel Maybank (dancers), London Sinfonietta, Pierre-André Valade (conductor). Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 24.4.2015 (JPr)
Tanztheater Wuppertal Receive Standing Ovation for Bausch’s Ahnen
United Kingdom Monteverdi, Dowland, Traditional,Jazz, Ahnen: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Sadler’s Wells, London, 23.4.2013 (J.O’D)
Honesty and Artistry from Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
United Kingdom Prokofiev, Roméo et Juliette: Dancers of Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. Kirov St Petersburg Orchestra / Valery Gergiev (recorded), London Coliseum, London, 23.4.14. (JPr)
