United States Spring for Music, Concert V: Messiaen, Debussy, Qigang Chen: Xiaoduo Chen (soprano), Meng Meng (qingyi and soprano), Wu Man (pipa), Hong Wang (erhu), Yang Yi (zheng), Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York, 11.5.2012 (BH)
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Mozart String Quintets at Montreal Music Festival
Canada Mozart: The Complete String Quintets, Afiara Quartet, Cecilia Quartet, Barry Shiffman (viola), Michael Tree (viola), Montreal Chamber Music Festival, St. George’s Church, Montreal, 29.5.2012 and 31.5.2012 (SSM)
Metal Sheets and Bubble Wrap at the MATA Festival
United States MATA Festival 2012, Concert III, “Signs and Signals”: Soloists, Roulette, New York City, 20.4.2012 (DS)
Salome in Concert: Unstaged But Not Unbowed
United States R. Strauss, Salome: The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York, 24.5.2012 (SSM)
Busoni Behemoth Brings Out Hamelin’s Best
United States Spring for Music, Concert III: Hila Plitmann (soprano), Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Men of the Westminster Symphonic Choir, Joe Miller (WSC director), New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Lacombe (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York City, 9.5.2012 (BH)
Houston Symphony Kicks Off Carnegie’s “Spring for Music”
United States Spring for Music, Concert I, “Two Faces of Shostakovich”: Mikhail Svetlov (bass), Houston Symphony, Hans Graf (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York City, 7.5.2012 (BH)
Judge Me Paris: A Baroque Burlesque Opera
United States Eccles, Judge Me Paris:A Baroque Burlesque Opera, Company XIV, 303 Bond St. Theatre, Brooklyn, New York, 20.5.2012 (SSM)
Emanuel Ax Presents a Diversity of Variations
United States Copland, Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann: Emanuel Ax, Carnegie Hall, New York, 17.5.2012 (SSM)