United States Brahms, Schumann, Dvořák, Beethoven: Hélène Grimaud (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 11/20.5.2018 (BJ)
Philadelphia
Nicholas McGegan Steps Outside His Usual 18th-Century Focus
United States Respighi, Handel, Locatelli, Rossini, Stravinsky: Peter Richard Conte (organ), Philadelphia Orchestra / Nicholas McGegan (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 5.5.2018. (BJ)
Daniela Mack Sizzles as Carmen for Opera Philadelphia
United States Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Philadelphia Boys & Girls Choirs, Opera Philadelphia Chorus & Orchestra / Yves Abel (conductor), Opera Philadelphia, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 4.5.2018. (RP)
In a Two-Week Residency, Stéphane Denève Highlights Connesson
United States Connesson, Prokofiev, Strauss, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Berlioz, Respighi: Vadim Repin (violin), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra / Stéphane Denève (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 20 & 28.4.2018. (BJ)
‘Greatness-Squared’ from Finley and Drake
United States Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Various: Gerald Finley (bass-baritone), Julius Drake (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 20.4.2018. (BJ)
Trifonov in a Jamboree of Overwhelming Tonal Splendor
United States Rachmaninoff, Bartók: Daniil Trifonov (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra/ Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 15.4.2018. (BJ)
A Machover Premiere Celebrates the City of Brotherly Love
United States Bernstein, Machover, Musorgsky (orch. Ravel): Westminster Symphonic Choir (Joe Miller, director) Keystone State Boychoir and Pennsylvania Girlchoir (Stephen M. Fisher, artistic director), Sister Cities Girlchoir (Alysia Lee, artistic director), Temuri Tavelishvili (boy soprano), Ben Bloomberg (audio technology), Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 7.4.2018. (BJ)
Acoustic and Electric Violas in an Ingenious Program
United States Mozart, Hummel, Mooke, Fauré: Born Lau (viola), Martha Mooke (electric viola), Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia / Dirk Brossé (conductor), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 2.4.2018. (BJ)