Italy Spontini, Beethoven: Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Conductor, Sir Antonio Pappano. Sala Santa Cecilia, Parco della Musica, Rome. 10.10.2015 (JB)
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Beethoven Contemporaneous wth Francesconi’s Admirable Sense of Theatre
Italy Luca Francesconi, Beethoven: Orchestra and Chorus of Santa Cecilia. Conductor, Sir Antonio Pappano, Chorus Master, Ciro Visco. Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano) Rachel Willis-Sorensen (soprano) Adriana Di Paola (contralto) Stuart Skelton (tenor) Michael Volle (bass). Sala Santa Cecilia, Parco della Musica, Rome. 03.10.2015 (JB)
Trashing Mexico at Rome’s Santa Cecilia
Italy de Falla, Paganini, Mexican Trash: The Eduardo Mata University Youth Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Rivero with Massimo Quarta (violin) and Jose Luis Ordonez and Liuvia Ruelas (vocalists). A Santa Cecilia concert at Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome. 14.9.2015 (JB)
Where the Music Takes You (or Don’t Let the Music Talk Politics)
Italy Beethoven, Dvorak, Khachaturian. Filarmonica della Scala, conductor, Daniel Harding, Alessandro Taverna (piano). A Santa Cecilia concert at Sala Sinopoli, Parco della Musica Rome as part of the With You Armenia Centennial 05-09-2015 (JB)
That Was a Good Concert of Music, Wasn’t It?
Italy Bach/Siloti, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Britten, Prokofiev. Vitaly Pisarenko (piano) Concert of the Pontino Festival of Music in presentation with the Keyboard Charitable Trust in the courtyard of the town hall of Sabaudia 27.07.2015 (JB)
The Soul of Uto Ughi
United Kingdom Rossini, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Bizet / Sarasate, Ravel. Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Conductor, George Pehlivanian, Uto Ughi (violin). Sala Santa Cecilia, Parco della Musica Rome 23.07.2015. (JB)
Hurdy-Gurdy Volodos
Italy Brahms Schubert, Arcadi Volodos piano). Sala Santa Cecilia, Parco della Musica, Rome 13.05.2015 (JB)
The Pleasures of Being Seriously Crackers
Italy The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me by Sofka Zinovieff Jonathan Cape, London. 436pp £25.00 (jacket price)