Tenor Piotr Beczala performs famous Verismo arias by Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo and others, with Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana under Marco Boemi
Review: “Nuits” – Véronique Gens, I Giardini
Soprano Véronique Gens is joined by “I Giardini” in French Melodies, with works by Fauré, Berlioz, Massenet, Saint-Saëns, Chausson and Liszt and others.
Review: Dvořák – Requiem, Te Deum, Biblical Songs – Hrůša, Bělohlávek
Jakub Hrůša conducts the Czech Philharmonic and Prague Philharmonic Choir in Dvořák’s Requiem and Te Deum. The late Jiří Bělohlávek conducts “Biblical Songs”.
Review: Bach – Complete Keyboard Edition Vol.3 – Benjamin Alard
Benjamin Alard continues his odyssey through Bach’s complete keyboard works, playing both the organ and the harpsichord.
Review: Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 2, Handel Variations – Lars Vogt
In his second volume of his Brahms Piano Concertos cycle, Lars Vogt once again conducts the Northern Sinfonia from the keyboard, in the Second Piano Concerto and the Handel Variations.
Review: Shostakovich – Symphony No. 11 – BBC Philharmonic – Storgårds
John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Shostakovich’s Eleventh Symphony, “The Year 1905”.
Review: Brahms, Schoenberg – Violin Concertos – Jack Liebeck
Violinist Jack Liebeck perform Schoenberg’s and Brahms’ Violin Concertos, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Gourlay.
Review: Adès Conducts Adès – Kirill Gerstein, Piano
Thomas Adès performs two of his works with the Boston Symphony Orchestra – the Piano Concerto with soloist Kirill Gerstein and “Totentanz”.
Review: Beethoven – Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”) – Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and its Concertmaster Bernhard Forck present two orchestral pieces which depicts nature – Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony and Knecht’s “Le portrait musical de la nature.”
Review: Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 – National Symphony Orchestra, Noseda
Gianandrea Noseda conducts the National Symphony Orchestra, in Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”) and Copland’s “Suite from Billy the Kid”.