United States Haydn, Janáček, Schubert, Mozart, and Beethoven (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 10.12.2014 (BJ)
Philadelphia
An Inexhaustible Source of Superb Quartets
United States Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Brahms: Dover Quartet, Roberto Diaz (viola), Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 9.12.2014 (BJ)
The Philadelphia Orchestra Makes Amends to Brahms
United States Brahms, Haydn, and Strauss: Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 6.12.2014 (BJ)
Curtis Chamber Orchestra Combines Pleasure with Instruction
United States Copland, Bernstein, Mahler, and Stravinsky: Bella Hristova (violin), Curtis Chamber Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero and Edward Poll (conductors), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 5.12.2014 (BJ)
Dazzling Work from a Young Chinese-American Pianist (No, Not That One)
United States Haydn, Brahms, and Prokofiev: Di Wu (piano), Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 3.12.2014 (BJ)
Playing Better Suited to Stravinsky than to Brahms
United States Respighi, Stravinsky, and Brahms: Juliette Kang (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 22.11.2014 (BJ)
More Memorable Mendelssohn, from the Johannes Quartet
United States Mendelssohn, Bartók, and Dvořák: Johannes Quartet, Harold Robinson (double bass), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 20.11.2014 (BJ)
Operatic Frivolities Shortchange the Music
United States Rossini and Puccini: Lio Kuokman (conductor), Curtis Opera Theatre Soloists and Orchestra, Stephanie Havey (director), Brandon McNeel (sets), Amy Sutton (costumes), Christopher J. Frey (lighting), Prince Music Theater, Philadelphia, 21.11.2014 (BJ)