John Rhodes – Page 16 – Seen and Heard International

Contributors look back on events Seen and Heard in 2021

02/03/202304/01/2022 by AUTHOR

Reflecting on the past year – and perhaps with their hopes for the future – are … MARK BERRY: It has, for reasons all too obvious, been another strange musical year. Whereas in 2020 we had just over two months of ‘normality’, an apparently auspicious beginning to Beethoven Year, followed by the Great Deafness, intermittently … Read more

Festive Musical Soirée with Alondra de la Parra, Julien Prégardien and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich

20/02/202231/12/2021 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Brahms, Schubert, Bernstein, Ravel, Gershwin, Ginastera: Julian Prégardien (tenor), Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / Alondra de la Parra (conductor). Tonhalle, Zurich, 30.12.2021. (JR)

A phenomenal Messiah from Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort at the Tonhalle in Zurich

20/02/202220/12/2021 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Handel, Messiah: Mary Bevan (soprano), Caitlin Hulcup (alto), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Ashley Riches (bass), Gabrieli Consort, Kammerorchester Basel / Paul McCreesh (conductor). Tonhalle, Zurich, 18.12.2021. (JR)

With the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Schubert’s ‘Great’, Mozart’s piano concerto joyful and Schoenberg interesting

20/02/202217/12/2021 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Schoenberg, Mozart, Schubert: Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / Antonello Manacorda (conductor). Tonhalle, Zurich, 16.12.21. (JR)

Francesco Piemontesi (c) Marco Borggreve

Strongly sung Simon Boccanegra at Zurich Opera led by Ludovic Tézier’s formidable baritone

20/02/202213/12/2021 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Verdi, Simon Boccanegra: Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich / Marco Armiliato (conductor). Zurich Opera, Zurich. 12.12.2021. (JR)

Jennifer Rowley (Amelia) and Otar Jorjikia (Gabriele) (c) Monika Rittershaus

From Dowland to David Bowie – Jess Gillam blazes her trail at Zurich’s Tonhalle

16/01/202208/12/2021 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Various composers: Jess Gillam (saxophone), Zeynep Özsuca (piano). Kleine Tonhalle, Zurich, 6.12.2021. (JR)

Zeynep Özsuca (piano), Jess Gillam (saxophone) © Patrick Huerlimann

Sex, Crime and Royalty: a very British Anna Bolena at Zurich Opera

16/01/202206/12/2021 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Donizetti, Anna Bolena: Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich / Enrique Mazzola (conductor). Zurich Opera, Zurich, 5.12.2021. (JR)

Diana Damrau (Anna Bolena) and Luca Pisaroni (Henry VIII) (c) Toni Suter

Beautiful Berlioz from Sir John Eliot Gardiner with the Monteverdi Choir in Zurich

16/01/202228/11/2021 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Berlioz: Ann Hallenberg (Maria, mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (Narrator, tenor), Ashley Riches (Joseph, baritone), William Thomas (Herod, bass), Gareth Treseder (Centurion, tenor), Alex Ashworth (Polydorus/Father of the family, bass), Monteverdi Choir, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor). Tonhalle, Zurich, 27.11.2021. (JR)

Sir John Eliot Gardiner (c) Chris Christodoulou

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