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Five exciting singers garner top prizes at the 2020 George London Foundation finals

30/03/202023/02/2020 by Rick Perdian

United States Various composers – George London Foundation Awards Competition Finals: Soloists, Lydia Brown (piano), The Morgan Museum & Library, New York, 21.2.2020. (RP)

Nora London (George London Foundation President)
with 2020 George London Award winners (c) Jennifer Taylor

Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique celebrate Beethoven at Carnegie Hall

18/08/202021/02/2020 by Rick Perdian

United States ORR Beethoven Cycle [1]: Lucy Crowe (soprano), Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique / Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor). Carnegie Hall, New York, 19.2.2020. (RP)

Lucy Crowe (soprano), ORR, & Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) © Chris Lee

Lyrical and fun: Osmo Vänskä leads the Curtis Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall

30/03/202012/02/2020 by Rick Perdian

United States Smith, Beethoven, Sibelius: Jonathan Biss (piano), Curtis Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä (conductor). Carnegie Hall, New York, 8.2.2020. (RP)

Osmo Vänskä (conductor) & the Curtis Symphony Orchestra © Pete Checchia

Tenor Dominick Armstrong gives volcanic Janáček performance for Brooklyn Art Song Society

10/03/202009/02/2020 by Rick Perdian

United States Brooklyn Art Song Society Home IV – Bartók, Kodály, Janáček: Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Caitlin Mead (sopranos), Allison Gish, Kate Maroney (mezzo-sopranos), Dominic Armstrong (tenor), Michael Brofman, Joel Harder (piano). Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, 7.2.2020. (RP)

Janáček, Bartók & Kodály © Joan Chiverton

Susan Graham, ‘America’s favorite mezzo’, returns to Alice Tully Hall in radiant form

10/03/202006/02/2020 by Rick Perdian

United States Various: Susan Graham (mezzo soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Alice Tully Hall, New York, 4.2.2020. (RP)

An undoubtedly disturbing yet ultimately triumphant Met Porgy and Bess

30/12/202005/02/2020 by Jim Pritchard

United States The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / David Robertson (conductor). Transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 1.2.2020. (JPr)