United States Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart: Musicians from Marlboro: Mary Lynch (oboe), Wei-Ping Chou and Patrick Pridemore (horns), David McCarroll and Itamar Zorman (violins), Hélène Clément (viola), Peter Wiley (cello), Tony Flynt (double bass), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 7.5.2015 (BJ)
Philadelphia
A Cathartic Schnittke from the Brentanos and Solzhenitsyn
United States Haydn, Schnittke, and Mendelssohn: Brentano String Quartet, Ignat Solzhenitsyn (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 3.5.2015 (BJ)
Tempora Mutantur: Is Bernstein’s MASS the Same Piece Now?
Bernstein, MASS: Soloists, Westminster Symphonic Choir (Joe Miller, director), Temple University Concert Choir (Paul Rardin, director), Joe Miller (choral preparation), The American Boychoir (Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, director), The Rock School for Dance Education (Bojan Spassoff (director), Temple University Diamond Marching Band (Matthew Brunner, director), student musicians from the School District of Philadelphia (Darren Lynch, musical preparation), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 10.4.2015 (BJ)
A Shai Wosner Recital of the Profoundest Mastery
United States Schubert, Chopin, Haydn, Ligeti, and Beethoven: Shai Wosner (piano), Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1.5.2015 (BJ)
A “Don Carlo” to Thrill the Ear but Disappoint the Eye
United States Verdi, Don Carlo: Soloists, Opera Philadelphia, Corrado Rovaris (conductor), Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 29.4.2014 (BJ)
Shoot the Pianist, or Shoot the Piano?
United States Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, and Schumann: Richard Goode (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 21.4.2015 (BJ)
Freshness and Warmth from the Ensō String Quartet and Colleagues
United States Wolf, Whitehead, Verdi, and Tchaikovsky: Ensō String Quartet, Dimitri Murrath (viola), Peter Wiley (cello), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 20.4.2015 (BJ)
Fulfilling a Prophecy, Youthful Mastery Blooms
United States Schumann, Webern, Poulenc, Bach, Boccherini, Bloch, and Tchaikovsky: Julian Schwarz (cello), Sara Daneshpour (piano), St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Wayne, Pennsylvania, 19.4.2015 (BJ)