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All Seen and Heard Reviews: May - December
2004
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Opera
Rossini,
Mussorgsky and Strauss at Finnish National Opera:
La Cenerentola, Khovanshchina
and Der Rosenkavalier 28th-31st December 2004
(BK)
Leoš
Janácek: Kát’a Kabanová, soloists,
The Metropolitan Opera, New York City, December 17 (Season Premiere) and 21, 2004 (BH)
Wagner,
Das Rheingold, Soloists,
Orchestra of Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Antonio
Pappano, Royal Opera House, 18th December
2004 (MH)
HANDEL
Rodelinda Renée Fleming, Kobie
van Rensburg, Oren Gradus, Stephanie
Blythe, David Walker, Theodora Hanslowe,
Zachary Vail Elkind, Metropolitan
Opera Orchestra/Harry Bicket, 18th December 2004 (BJ)
Der
Ring Des Nibelungen State
Opera
of South Australia, Adelaide Festival Theatre, 16-22
November 2004 (RW)
City
of Manchester Opera Gala Showcase:
The Bruntwood
Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester,
December 11th 2004 (RJF)
Kurt
Weil, One Touch Of Venus (music by Kurt Weil to lyrics
by Ogden Nash), Opera North, Leeds Grand Theatre, December
8th 2004 (RJF)
Puccini’s
‘Suor Angelica’
(December 7th and 9th) and Opera
Scenes (December 3rdand 10th), Bruntwood
Opera Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
(RJF)
BRITTEN
The Rape of Lucretia Soloists,
Chorus & Orchestra of the Benjamin Britten International
Opera School at the Royal College of Music/Thomas
Blunt, 30th November 2004 (CC)
GLINKA, A Life for the Tsar
Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra
of Chelsea Opera Group/Alexander Walker, Queen Elizabeth
Hall, Saturday, 27th November, 2004 (CC)
ETO
in Exeter (II) Puccini
'La Bohème' (23/11 ) and
Janácek 'The Cunning LittleVixen'
(24/11 ) Soloists and Orchestra of English Touring
Opera, Northcott Theatre, University of Exeter, 23rd
and 24th November 20024 (BK)
Così
o non Così –
Mozart for Better or Worse –
by Bernard Jacobson
Gyorgy
Ligeti Le Grand Macabre, San
Francisco Opera, Alexander Rumpf (conductor), War
Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, November 18,
2004 (HS)
Handel
Semele Soloists, Chorus
and Orchestra of English National Opera/Laurence Cummings,
18th November, 2004 (CC)
Birtwistle, Second
Mrs Kong
Soloists, BBC Symphony
Orchestra/Brabbins. RFH, Tuesday, November 9th, 2004
(CC)
Richard
Wagner, Siegfried, Soloists
and Orchestra of English National Opera, Paul Daniel
(cond), Coliseum, 6th November 2004 (MB)
ETO
in Exeter (I) Jonathan Dove: Tobias and the Angel,
Soloists & Choruses, English
Touring Opera Orchestra, Tim Murray (conductor) St.
David's Church Exeter, November 6th 2004 (BK)
Jubilee
Gala,
Lyric Opera of Chicago, Civic
Opera House, Chicago, October 30, 2004 (HS)
Gluck,
Orpheo et Eurydice, Soloists,
Opera North and Emio Greco/PC, Lowry Theatre, Salford
Quays, October 23rd 2004 (RJF)
Donizetti,
Pia de’ Tolomei Soloists,
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra/David
Parry, RFH, Saturday, October 23rd, 2004 (CC)
Verdi
Falstaff Soloists,
Chorus & Orchestra of English National Opera,
Coliseum, Thursday, 21st October, 2004 (CC)
Richard
Wagner: Die Walküre,
Soloists, The Metropolitan Opera
Orchestra, Valery Gergiev, Metropolitan Opera House,
New York City, October 5, 2004 (BH)
Berlioz
The Trojans
Soloists and Chorus of
English National Opera/Paul Daniel, Coliseum, Sunday
October 3rd, 2004 (CC)
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Don
Giovanni. Soloists,
Chorus and Orchestra of EnglishNational Opera/David
Parry. Coliseum, London, Thursday, September 30th,
2004 (CC)
Billy
Budd, La traviata, Cosi fan tutte:
A San Francisco Opera progress
report, September 26, 2004 (HS)
G.
Puccini, Tosca (semi-staged
concert performance): Soloists,
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo,
CBSO Chorus, CBSO Youth Chorus, Symphony Hall, Birmingham
25th September 2004 (BK)
Offenbach,
La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein,
MC2, Grenoble, September 24,
2004(FC)
Richard
Strauss, ‘Ariadne auf Naxos,’ new
production première, Welsh National Opera,
Cardiff, 11th September 2004 (BK)
Richard
Wagner: ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen,’
Finnish National Opera, Helsinki
30th August – 7th September
2004.
Janáček,
The Cunning Little Vixen,
Soloists, British Youth Opera
& Southbank Sinfonia, Alex Ingrams (conductor),
QEH, 12th September, 2004 (MB)
Renée
Fleming, arias and scenes, San
Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Donald Runnicles
(conductor), San Francisco Opera opening gala, War
Memorial opera House, San Francisco, Sept. 10, 2004
(HS)
Rachmaninov,
The
Miserly Knight and Puccini, Gianni Schicchi,
Glyndebourne Festival Opera,
22nd July 2004 (H-T W)
Wagner,
Tristan und Isolde, Stuttgart
State Opera, 18th July, 2004 (SM)
Mozart,
Die Zauberflöte,
Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 16th July 2004 (H-T
W)
Rossini,
L´Equivoco stravagante,
Garsington Opera, 11th July 2004 (H-T W)
Malcolm
Williamson, Our Man in Havana,
soloists, Trinity College
of Music Opera Company, Greenwich Theatre, 10th
July 2004 (MB)
Benjamin
Britten, Peter Grimes (new
production première) soloists, Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden, 3rd July 2004 (BK)
Wagner:
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,
Bavarian State Opera, Munich,
2nd July, 2004 (SM)
Benjamin
Britten, Death in Venice,
soloists, City of London
Sinfonia/Richard Hickox, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wednesday
30th June 2004 (AN)
Poulenc
Dialogues des Carmélites
Soloists, Royal College
of Music Opera Orchestra/Jan Latham-Koenig, RCM,
Friday, July 2nd, 2004 (CC)
Tchaikovsky,
Cherevichki, Garsington
Opera, 26th June 2004 (H-T W)
Wagner:
Die Walküre, Hessisches
Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Premiere on June 27, 2004
(SM)
Tchaikovsky,
Charodeika
(The Enchantress),
Grange Park Opera, 13th June 2004 (H-T W)
Britten
A Midsummer Night's Dream Soloists
and Orchestra of English National Opera, Paul Daniel
(cond). London Coliseum, Wednesday, June 23rd,
2004 (CC)
Richard
Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos
Soloists, Orchestra of the Royal
Opera House, dir. Sir Colin Davis, Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden, June 22nd 2004. (M.E.)
Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Soloists,
Choruses and Orchestra of Zürich Opera/Franz Welser-Möst.
RFH, Monday, June 21st, 2004 (CC)
Janacek,
Katya Kabanova(revival
premičre) Welsh National Opera, Cardiff June 5th
(BK)
Verdi,
Ernani Soloists Chorus
and Orchestra of English National Opera/Mark Shanahan,
London Coliseum, Friday, June 11th, 2004
(CC)
Beethoven,
Fidelio (concert performance),
Soloists, San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson
Thomas, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, May
29, 2004 (HS)
Richard
Strauss Arabella Soloists,
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, cond. Christoph
von Dohnanyi, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, May
27th 2004 (ME)
Wagner,The
Valkyrie Soloists and Orchestra of English National Opera/Alex
Ingram. Coliseum, London, Wednesday, May 26th, 2003
(CC)
Bizet,
Carmen Soloists,
ENO, Coliseum, 21st May 2004 (MB)
Opera
in Philadelphia –a season round-up
reviewed by Bernard Jacobson
Verdi,
La TraviataWelsh National
Opera, Cardiff 15th May 2004 (new production
premičre) (BK)
Bernstein,
Candide A
Comic Operetta in Two Acts,
Soloists, New York Philharmonic, Marin Alsop (cond.),
7th May 2004, Avery Fisher Hall, New
York City (BH)
Wagner,
The Valkyrie (new production),
Soloists, ENO, Paul Daniel (cond.), 8th
May 2004 (MB)
The
Mikado Soloists Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera/Gareth
Jones. London Coliseum, Friday April 30th,
2004 (CC)
S.
Prokofiev, Ognenniy Angel ("The Fiery Angel"),
The Bol’shoi Theatre, Moscow, 24th April
2004 (NM)
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International
Concerts and Festivals
Huddersfield
Contemporary Music Festival 2004
reviewed by John Warnaby
Siren
Songs, Ensemble 21
Elebash Hall, City University of New
York, New York City, December 10, 2004 (BH)
The
Philharmonia Orchestra in Athens:
Rachmaninov Festival,
Soloists, Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy,
Megaron, Athens, 7th and 8th December 2004 (ARi)
The
Arditti Quartet in New York:
Arditti Quartet, Zankel
Hall, New York City, December 4th, 2004 (BH)
Eschenbach
Conducts Brahms:
Schoenberg,
A Survivor from Warsaw; Brahms, Ein
deutsches Requiem; Christopher Maltman, Michaela
Kaune, Philadelphia Singers Chorale, Philadelphia
Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, Verizon Hall, 4
December 2004 (BJ)
Christopher
Taylor Piano Recital:
Miller Theatre, Columbia
University, New York City, December 3, 2004 (BH)
Beethoven
and Brahms,
Boris Berman (piano), Horowitz
Piano Series at Yale, Morse Recital Hall in Sprague
Hall, December 1, 2004 (CA)
Ravel,
Mahler, Sibelius,
David Wilson-Johnson
(bass-baritone), Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra,
David Atherton (conductor), Hong Kong Cultural Centre,
Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, China, 19th November 2004
(AO)
Pintscher
Hérodiade Fragments, Mahler Symphony
No. 5 Philadelphia
Orchestra, Marisol Montalvo (soprano), Christoph
Eschenbach, 19 November 2004 (BJ)
Da
Capo Chamber Players
give New York and World
Premieres: Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, November
16, 2004 (BH)
Morton
Feldman: Why Patterns? (1978)
& Gérard
Grisey: Vortex Temporum (1994-96),
The New York New Music Ensemble, Merkin Concert
Hall, New York City, November 15, 2004 (BH)
Prokofiev,
Shostakovich, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky:
Vadim Repin (violin)
and Lynn Harrell (cello), St. Petersburg Philharmonic,
Yuri Temirkanov, conductor; Davies Symphony Hall,
San Francisco, November 19 and 20, 2004 (HS)
Sibelius,
Saariaho, Tchaikovsky,
Karita Mattila (soprano),
New York Philharmonic, Sakari Oramo, Avery Fisher
Hall, New York City, November 13, 2004 (BH
Tan
Dun’s Philadelphia Premiere
by Bernard Jacobson
20th-Century
Piano Music in Recital
Idil Biret (piano), Paul
C. Empie Theatre, Baker Center for the Arts, Allentown,
Pennsylvania, November 14, 2004 (BJ)
Music
of the Americas: Mexico Now Concerts,
Modernworks, The Americas Society, New York City,
8th November 2004 (BH)
Strauss
and Schubert,
John Ferrillo (oboe), Karita
Mattila (soprano), Boston Symphony Orchestra, James
Levine (conductor), Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts,
November 6th, 2004 (BH)
Rameau,
J.S Bach, J.C Bach, Handel,
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan (conductor), Philadelphia, October 2004 (BJ)
Silenced
Voices II:
Jonathan Biss, (piano),
Los Angeles Philharmonic, James Conlon, conductor,
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California,
October 29, 2004 (BH)
Mahler:
Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major,
Soloists & Choruses,
Boston Symphony Orchestra, James Levine (conductor),
Carnegie Hall, New York City, October 25th 2004
(BH)
Beethoven
at the Yale School of Music,
Richard Goode (pf), Philharmonia
Orchestra of Yale, Peter Oundjian, Woolsey Hall,
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 22nd October
2004 (CA)
A
Danielpour Premiere at the Philadelphia Orchestra
(October
21, 2004) by Bernard Jacobson
Brahms:
Piano Concerto No.
2 in B-flat major, Symphony No. 4 in E minor,
Op. 98 (1885), Mikhail Pletnev (Piano), Gewandhaus
Orchestra of Leipzig, Herbert Blomstedt, Conductor,
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, October 19,
2004 (BH)
Pollini
at Carnegie Hall,
Chopin and Debussy, Maurizio
Pollini (piano), Carnegie Hall, New York City,
17th October 2004 (BH)
Franz
Schubert: Winterreise,
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Leif
Ove Andsnes (piano), Carnegie Hall, New York,
16th October, 2004 (BJ)
The
Los Angeles Organ: review (II):
Richard Strauss: Festive
Prelude, Op. 61 (1913), James MacMillan: A
Scotch Bestiary (world premiere) (2003-04), Richard
Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (1895-96),
Wayne Marshall, organ, Los Angeles Philharmonic,
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor, Walt Disney Concert
Hall, Los Angeles, California, October 7 and 9,
2004 (BH)
MacMillan
Premier and Zarathustra Give
Disney Hall's New Organ a Workout in Los Angeles:
Wayne Marshall (organ), Los Angeles Philharmonic,
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor, Walt Disney Concert
Hall, Los Angeles, Oct 8, 2004 (HS)
Schumann,
Szymanowski, Scriabin
Alberto Nosè, piano,
Teatro della Pergola (Saloncino), Florence, Italy,
Thursday, September 30th, 2004 (GF)
Beethoven
& Berio,
Orchestre de Paris, Christoph
Eschenbach, Théâtre Mogador, September
29, 2004 (FC)
Philadelphia
Music: After the Sopranos, the Cellists–by
Bernard Jacobson
Vengerov
plays Mendelssohn in New York:
Maxim Vengerov, violin, New
York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel, conductor, Avery
Fisher Hall, New York City, September 22, 2004
(BH)
Stravinsky
and Tchaikovsky,
San Francisco Symphony Symphony, Michael Tilson
Thomas, conductor, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco,
September 23, 2004 (HS)
American
Premieres:
New Juilliard
Ensemble, Joel Sachs, Conductor, Juilliard Theater,
New York City, September 18, 2004 (BH)
The
Philadelphia Music Season Opens with Two Sopranos
by Bernard Jacobson
Helsinki
Festival II Helsinki
Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, 5th September,
2004 (BK)
Helsinki
Festival
I
Midori (violin), Royal Stockholm
Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor Alan Gilbert,
Finlandia Hall, Helsinki 2nd September
2004 (BK)
ASPEN FESTIVAL
Aspen
Music Festival (I):
Janacek, Brahms and Chin, July 11th
2004 (HS)
Aspen
Music Festival (II)
Emerson String Quartet, music of Tower, Britten,
Brahms, Janacek, Debussy, Shostakovich
Aspen
Music Festival (III)
Leon Fleisher plays Beethoven,
Gil Shaham plays Williams and Zinman conducts
Bernstein (HS)
Aspen
Music Festival (IV)
Mozart:
The Abduction from the Seraglio, Arnold
Östman, conductor; Aspen Opera Theatre, Wheeler
Opera House, July 21, 2004 (HS)
Aspen
Music Festival (V) Pianos
and Fiddles and Scots, Oh My ... and a Brass world
premiere (HS)
Aspen
Music Festival (VI)
Zinman conducts
Metamorphosen and Das Lied von der Erde, 25th
July 2004 (HS)
Aspen
Music Festival (VII) Susanne
Mentzer: Songs by women composers; Edgar Meyer,
double bass concerto (HS)
Aspen
Music Festival (VIII) Aspen
Opera Theater does Britten’s Turn of the Screw
and Conlon does Dvorak & Lieberson (HS)
Aspen
Music Festival (IX):
Aspen Percussion Ensemble, 4
August 2004 (HS)
Aspen
Music Festival (X) Shostakovich
revealed, Vänskä conducts Sibelius and
Mentzer sings with Isbin (HS)
Aspen
Music Festival (XI)
A
Schumann Mini-Festival -- and Beethoven with Yefim
Bronfman (HS)
Aspen
Music Festival (XIII)
Feltsman
Plays Bach and Chopin and ASQ Glows with Schubert
(HS)
Aspen
Music Festival (XIV) Forbidden
Music with James Conlon, Vladmir Feltsman and
Friends (HS)
Aspen
Music Festival (XV)
Closing Concert:
Verdi’s Requiem (HS)
2004
Montpellier Festival:
Operas
by Richard Strauss, Mariotte and Melani reviewed
by Frank Cadenhead
Lucerne Festival
2004: Strauss, Four Last Songs, Wagner,
Tristan und Isolde (Act II),
Renée Fleming (sop), Violeta Urmana (sop),
John Treleaven (tenor), Mihoko Fujimara (mezzo),
René Pape (bass), Lucerne Festival Orchestra,
Claudio Abbado (dir.), Concert Hall, Lucerne Culture
and Congress Center (KKL), Lucerne, Switzerland,
13th August 2004 (MB)
Mostly
Mozart Festival 2004:
Mozart, Sarasate, Kodály,
Joshua Bell (violin), Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra,
Louis Langrée, Avery Fisher Hall, New York
City, 20th August 2004 (BH)
Bowdoin
International Music Festival:
MusicFest Faculty Concert, music
of Schumann, Shostakovich, and Beethoven; Crooker
Theater, Brunswick High School, Maine, 6th August
2004 (CA)
Lincoln
Center Festival 2004,
Tone Test (world premiere),
Clark Studio Theatre, New York City, July
23, 2004 (BH)
Lincoln
Center Festival 2004,
Quatre
Chiens (Four Dogs), Ensemble Sospeso,
Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York
City, 22nd July 2004 (BH)
Wittener
Tage für Neue Kammermusik,
23.-25. April 2004 by John Warnaby
Mendelssohn
on Mull: 27 June – 3 July, 2004
reviewed by John Warnaby
9.
Muenchener Biennale, 12-28 May, 2004 reviewed
by John Warnaby
Viva
España!,
Sharon Isbin, guitar
(NY Philharmonic debut), New York Philharmonic,
Bramwell Tovey, conductor, Avery Fisher Hall,
New York City, June 24, 2004 (BH)The
New Broadway Soloists,
Ricky Ian Gordon, Piano, Los Angeles Master Chorale,
Grant Gershon, Music Director and Conductor, Walt
Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, June 13, 2004
(BH)
Salonen, Shostakovich, Stravinsky Yefim Bronfman, piano, James
Wilt, trumpet, Jamie Chamberlin, soprano, Hila
Plitmann, soprano, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka
Salonen, conductor, Walt Disney Concert Hall,
Los Angeles, June 11, 2004 (BH)
Mendelssohn: Lauda Sion, Op.
73 (1846), Wagner: Das Liebesmahl der Apostel,
Biblical Scene, WWV 69 (1843), Liszt: Missa
solemnis (1856) Soloists, American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, Avery
Fisher Hall, New York City, June 6, 2004 (BH)
Bach,
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (orchestration by Andrew Davis), Cantata No. 82;
Dvorak, Symphony No. 7 San Francisco Symphony, Sir Andrew Davis,
conductor; David Daniels, countertenor. Davies
Symphony Hall, San Francisco, June 4, 2004 (HS)
Janácek,
Kurtág, Schumann, Kroll-Rosenbaum, Bresnick, Brahms
André
Emelianoff, Cello, Thomas Hoppe, Piano, Merkin
Concert Hall, New York City, June 1, 2004 (BH)
Stravinsky,
Ravel, Ives Leon
Fleisher, Piano, New York Philharmonic, Lorin
Maazel, Conductor, Avery Fisher Hall, New York
City, May 29, 2004 (BH)
Berg:
Violin Concerto (1935) & Mahler Symphony No. 9 (1909) Christian
Tetzlaff, Violin, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra,
James Levine, Artistic Director and Conductor,
Carnegie Hall, New York City, May 23, 2004 (BH)
Beethoven
Symphony No. 7, Dussek Piano Concerto in G minor, Reicha Overture
in D major San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor;
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano. Davies Symphony Hall,
May 21, 2004 (HS)
R.W.
Emerson Bicentennial Festival Hosted by John Hollander, New
York Society for Ethical Culture, New York City,
May 13th , 2004 (BH)
Ives’ Concord Sonata Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Zankel Hall, New York City, May 17,
2004 (BH)
The New Piano: Played by Hand
Lisa Moore, piano, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, May
9, 2004 (BH)
Andriessen:
Dubbelspoor (1986), Andriessen: Workers
Union (1975), Riley: In C (1964)
Bang
on a Can All-Stars, Alice Tully Hall, New York
City, May 8, 2004 (BH)
Prokofiev
Symphonies with
Gergiev, London Symphony Orchestra/Valery
Gergiev, Barbican Hall, May 1st-6th,
2004 (CC)
Honegger, Mozart, & Strauss
Tonhalle Orchestra, David Zinman, conductor,
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano, Verizon Hall, Philadelphia,
May 2, 2004 (BJ)
Knussen, Debussy, Vaughan Williams
Christine
Brewer, Soprano, Brett Polegato, Baritone, Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Norman Mackenzie, Director
of Choruses, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert
Spano, Music Director and Conductor, Carnegie
Hall, New York City, May 1, 2004 (BH)
CREDO – the Innocence of God
Karlsruhe Opera House, Germany, 30th April 2004
(SM)
Da Capo Chamber Players, The Knitting Factory, New York City, April 25, 2004 (BH)
VocalEssence Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 18, 2004 (BH)
UK
Concerts and Recitals
 Promenade
Concerts 2004
Handel,
‘Messiah’
- Polyphony choir
and orchestra cond. Stephen Layton: Emma Kirkby,
Robin Blaze, James Gilchrist, David Wilson
Johnson, Hazard Chase Christmas Festival,
St John’s, 23rd December 2004 (ME)
Rautavaara,
Elgar, Shostakovich:
Julia Fischer (violin), London Philharmonic
Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor),
RFH, 16th December, 2004 (AR)
Janácek,
‘The Diary of One who Disappeared’,
String Quartet no.
2, ‘Intimate Letters’, Six Piano
Pieces, In the Mist, Ian Bostridge, Thomas
Adès, Belcea Quartet, Gweneth –
Ann Jeffers, Wigmore Hall, Tuesday December
14th 2004 (ME)
Haydn,
Beethoven
Royal String Quartet (Izabella
Szalaj-Zimak, Elwira Przybylowska, violins;
Marek Czech, viola; Michal Pepol, cello),
Wigmore Hall, 1pm, Monday December 13th, 2004
(CC)
Haitink
and the LSO (I):
Richard Strauss
concert, David Pyatt (horn), London Symphony
Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Barbican, 12th
December, 2004 (MB)
Barbara
Bonney and Angelika Kirschlager :
Duets with Malcolm Martineau (piano), Symphony
Hall, Birmingham, December 11th (BK)
Rachmaninov,
Turnage, Tchaikovsky
Gerald Finley (baritone),
LPO/Vladimir Jurowski, RFH, Wednesday, December
8th, 2004 (CC)
BERLIOZ,
L'enfance du Christ,
Soloists: Alison
Kettlewell, James Gilchrist, Jared Holt, Michael
Druiett, Northern Sinfonia Orchestra and Chorus/Pierre-André
Valade, St Nicholas’ Cathedral, Newcastle
upon Tyne, 2nd December 2004 (JL)
Napoléon
(Abel Gance,
1927), London Philharmonic
Orchestra, Carl Davis (conductor), RFH, 4th
& 5th December, 2004 (AR)
Wagner
& Brahms,
Gordan Nikolitch (violin),
Tim Hugh (cello), London Symphony Orchestra,
Myung-Whun Chung, Barbican, 5th December 2004
(MB)
Bruch
& Shostakovich
Sayaka Shoji (violin),
WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne/Semyon Bychkov,
RFH, Wednesday, 1st December, 2004 (CC)
Lorin
Maazel conducts the LSO:
Schubert, Bruckner, Mendelssohn,
Dvorak, Lisa Batiashvili (violin), London
Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, Barbican,
28th November & 1st December 2004 (MB)
Handel
'Messiah' (Complete) :
Devon
Baroque (Artistic
Director, Margaret Faultless), The Winkleigh
Singers, Siona Stockel (sop) Stephen Harvey
(ctr-tenor) Richard Rowntree (tenor) Andrew
Ashwin (bass) Roland Smith (conductor) St.
Peter's Church, Barnstaple, Devon, Saturday
27th November (BK)
Stravinsky,
Bartók, Ives, Adams
Pekka Kuusisto (violin),
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/John Adams,
Barbican Hall, November 23rd, 2004 (CC)
Mozart,
Britten Emerson
String Quartet, Wigmore Hall, Monday November
22nd, 2004 (CC)
Tchaikovsky
and Prokofiev,
Joshua Bell (violin),
London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson
Thomas, Barbican, 20th November 2004 (MB)
Kodaly,
Chopin, Bartok,
Gergely Boganyi (piano),
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop
(conductor); RFH, 19th November 2004 (AR)
Butterworth,
Elgar, Holst/Matthews,
Steven Isserlis
(cello), Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony
Chorus Ladies Choir, Richard Hickox (conductor),
RFH, 18th November, 2004 (AR)
Haydn
and Mozart Quatuor
Mosaïques
(Erich Höbarth, Andrea Bishof, violins;
Anita Mitterer, viola; Christophe Coin, cello),
Wigmore Hall, 1pm, Monday, 15th November,
2004 (CC)
Schubert:
Lieder,
Matthias Goerne, Eric
Schneider, Wigmore Hall, November 10th 2004
(ME)
Schubert
and Eisler:
Matthias Goerne,
Eric Schneider, Wigmore
Hall, 8th November,
2004
(ME)
Debussy
Noriko Ogawa (piano),
Wigmore Hall, 1pm, Monday November 8th, 2004
(CC)
SONG
ON THE SOUTH BANK Dvořák,
Brahms
Bernada Fink (mezzo);
Jonathan Lemalu (baritone); Roger Vignoles
(piano). QEH, Sunday, November 7th, 2004 (CC)
Glinka,
Prokofiev, Shostakovich,
Nikolaj Znaider (violin),
London Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich
(conductor), Barbican Hall, 4th November,
2004 (AR)
Mozart,
Haydn: The Hanover Band,
Tuesday 26th October
2004 & Ireland, Vaughan Williams, Michael
Finnissey, Howells: ‘Room Music’,
Thursday 4th November 2004. Both at St John’s
Smith Square (ME)
Weber,
Hindemith, Beethoven;
Dresden Staatskapelle,
Bernard Haitink (conductor); Barbican Hall,
2nd November, 2004 (AR)
Birtwistle,
Antiphonies & Earth Dances:
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
(pf), Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph von
Dohnányi (conductor), RFH, 31st October,
2004 (AR)
Mendelssohn,
Barber, Mahler,
Ann Murray (soprano),
Simon Keenlyside (baritone), The Belcea Quartet
and friends, Paul Kildea (conductor), Wigmore
Hall, 30th October 2004 (AO)
Brahms & Wagner,
John Tomlinson
(bass), BBC Philharmonic, Sir Edward Downes,
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Friday October
29th 2004 (RJF)
Birtwistle,
Scelsi, Feldman,
Mark van de
Wiel (clarinet), Paul Silverthorne (viola);
London Sinfonietta/David Atherton, QEH, Thursday,
October 28th, 2004 (CC)
Dutoit
and Berlioz (II)
Berlioz,
Beethoven, Yefim Bronfman (pf), Philharmonia
Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor); RFH:
28 October, 2004 (AR)
F.
Couperin, Mendelssohn, Fauré, Schumann
Angela Hewitt (piano), Wigmore
Hall, Tuesday, October 26th, 2004 (CC)
Dutoit
conducts Berlioz (I), La Damnation de Faust
Ruxandra
Donose (mezzo-sop), Gregory Kunde (ten), David
Wilson-Johnson (bass-bar), Henry Waddington
(bass); Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony
Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir, The London
Oratory School Choir; Charles Dutoit (conductor);
RFH, 24th October, 2004 (AR)
Schubert,
Brahms, Wolf, Geraldine
McGreevy (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano),
Holywell Music Room, Oxford, 23rd October,
2004 (AO)
Maxwell
Davies, Haydn
Maggini
String Quartet, Wigmore Hall, Wednesday, October
20th, 2004 (CC)
Robert
Fuchs, Brahms, Robert and Clara Schumann,
Mahler, Wolf, Korngold,
Stephan Loges (baritone), James Gilchrist
(tenor), Natasha Loges (piano), Holywell Music
Room, Oxford, 20th October, 2004(AO)
Boulez
and the LSO (III): Bartók,
Rihm, Boulez, Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin);
London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez.
Tuesday, October 19th, 2004 (CC)
Dvorák,
Janácek Skampa
Quartet, Wigmore Hall,
1pm, Monday, October 18th, 2004
(CC)
Handel,
Haydn, Mozart:
Cantatas, Songs and
Keyboard Pieces – Andreas Scholl, Markus Märkl,
Wigmore Hall, 16th October 2004
(ME)
Boulez
and the LSO (II) Boulez
and Mahler: London Symphony
Orchestra, Pierre Boulez; Barbican Hall, 13th
October, 2004 (AR)
Mozart
and Dvořák
Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Mitsuko
Uchida (piano/director); Alexander Janiczek
(violin/director), RFH, Wednesday, October
13th, 2004 (CC)
Franz
Schubert: Winterreise, Mark
Padmore (tenor), Julius
Drake (piano), Holywell Music Room, Oxford,
11th October, 2004 (AO)
Mozart,
Dvořak
Florestan Trio, Wigmore
Hall, 1pm, Monday, October 11th,
2004 (CC)
Boulez
and the LSO (I): Boulez,
Bartok, Stravinsky: Hélène Grimaud
(pf); London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
(conductor); Barbican, October 8th 2004 (AR)
Mahler,
Das Lied von der Erde :
Oscar Strasnoy, Six
Songs for the Unquiet Traveller (World
Premiere, commissioned by the Wigmore Hall)
Ann Murray, Steve Davislim, Nash Ensemble
conducted by Paul Kildea – Opening Concert
of the 2004/5 season, Saturday October 9th
2004 (ME)
Vengerov
Plays Beethoven in London,
Maxim Vengerov (violin),
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis,
Barbican, 30th September 2004 (MB)
Tugan
Sokhiev conducts the Philharmonia:
Peter Jablonski and Simon
Trpceski (pianos), Philharmonia Orchestra,
Tugan Sokhiev, Royal Festival Hall, 30th September
and 5th October 2004 (MB)
Saariaho
& Mahler;
Christine Brewer (sop),
Petra Lang (mezzo); BBC Symphony Orchestra
and Chorus, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor);
Barbican Centre, 1st October, 2004 (AR)
Mendelssohn,
Brahms, Dvorak;
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin),
Lynn Harrell (cello); London Philharmonic
Orchestra, Kurt Masur (conductor); RFH, 2nd
October, 2004 (AR)
Brahms
and Tchaikovsky:
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), London
Philharmonic Orchestra; Kurt Masur (conductor);
RFH: 29th September, 2004 (AR)
Hugo
Wolf: songs to Mörike, Goethe and Eichendorff,
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio
Pappano (piano), Holywell Music Room, Oxford,
28th September, 2004 (AO)
Gustav
Mahler, Symphony No. 3,
Berliner Philharmoniker,
Bernard Haitink, Barbican, 27th September
2004 (MB)
Antonio
Salieri: Arias and Overtures,
Cecilia Bartoli, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
directed by Petra Müllejans. Barbican
Hall, 24 September 2004 (ME)
An
Arnold Concert: Julian
Bliss (clarinet), London
Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley, Royal
Festival Hall, Friday, 24th September
2004 (PS)
Kurtág,
Beethoven, R. Strauss
Alfred Brendel (piano);
Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi,
RFH, Thursday, September 23rd,
2004 (CC)
SEMLEY
MUSIC FESTIVAL:
Semley Village, August
6th-8th, 2004 (CC)
Three
Choirs Festival:
Finzi, Sanders, Ives, Dyson,
Venables, Williams, Hold, Roderick Williams
(baritone), Ian Burnside (piano), St Mary
De Lode Church, Gloucester, 9th
August 2004 (AO)
Three
Choirs Festival:
Knussen,
Delius and Vaughan Williams, Tasmin Little
(violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Richard
Hickox, Gloucester Cathedral, 8th
August, 2004 (CT)
 London
Review of Books Edward Said Memorial Concert:
Beethoven
and Tchaikovsky, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra,
Daniel Barenboim (piano & conductor),
Barbican 4th August 2004 (MB)
28th
St. Magnus Festival,
Orkney Islands:
18 – 23 June 2004 (JW)
‘Mostly
Mozart’
- Mozart, ‘Posthorn’ Symphony, Violin Concerto
in A major; Haydn, Symphony no. 104, Weber,
Concertino for Horn in E minor, Academy
of St Martin in the Fields, dir. Paul Goodwin;
Janine Jansen (violin) Evgeny Chebykin (horn),
Barbican Hall, Saturday July 24th
2004 (ME)
Bernstein:
In the concert hall and on Broadway,
soloists, London Symphony
Orchestra, Marin Alsop, Barbican, 11th
July 2004 (MB)
`Mostly
Mozart’ at the Barbican:
Mozart, Symphony
no. 40; Requiem, Soloists, Academy of St Martin
in the Fields, dir. Louis Langrée,
9th July 2004 (ME)
Tchaikovsky
& Shostakovich
Vadim Repin (violin), LSO/Mstislav Rostropovich,
Barbican Hall, London, July 8th,
2004 (CC)
A
Requiem for the death of Heinrich I.F Biber
(1644 -1704)
The
Gabrieli Consort and Players directed by Paul
McCreesh, Exeter Cathedral 7th
July 2004 (BK)
Dvorak
& Janacek;
Natalie Clein (cello)
Christine Brewer (sop), Louise Winter (mezzo),
John Mac Master (ten), Neal Davies (bar);
Thomas Trotter (organ); London Philharmonic
Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Philharmonia
Chorus; Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Charles
Mackerras, Royal Festival Hall, 29th
June 2004 (AR)
City
of London Festival: Britten, Shostakovich.
Louise Winter, John Mark
Ainsley, Roger Vignoles, St Lawrence Jewry,
Gresham Street, June 30th 2004
(ME)
Janáček,
Brahms, Dvořák,
Joshua Bell (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir
Charles Mackerras, Royal Festival Hall, Thursday
24 June 2004 (AN)
A
Weekend of English Song : An Overview. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 3rd
to 6th June, 2004 (AO)
Quilter,
Ireland, Britten, Bridge, Warlock, Vaughan Williams,
Dring, Walton.
Felicity Lott, (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano) The Parish
Church, Ludlow, 4th June, 2004 (AO)
 "Songs
from the Exotic",
Weir, Flanders and Swann, Bennett, Woodforde-Finden,
Holst, Browne, Tippett, Coward, Philips, Berkeley,
Jack, Stevenson, Muldowney. Susan Bickley (mezzo), Roderick Williams (baritone),
James Gilchrist (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
The Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 5th June,
2004 (AO)
"Shropshire
Lads". Ireland, Burrows,
Bax, Bussey, Moeran, Butterworth, Somerville,
Orr, Vaughan Williams.
James Gilchrist (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone),
Tippett String Quartet, Iain Burnside (piano)
The Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 5th June,
2004 (AO)
"A
song outlasts a dynasty",
Vaughan Williams, Williamson, Stanford, Roe, Wood,
Berners, Stevenson, Runswick, Berkeley, Butterworth,
Goossens, Scott, Maxwell Davies, Kit and the Widow. Susan Bickley (mezzo), Roderick
Williams (baritone), James Gilchrist (tenor),
Iain Burnside (piano) The Assembly Rooms, Ludlow,
6h June, 2004 (AO)
"Before
and after summer",
Finzi, Vaughan Williams, Clarke, Ireland.
Brett Polegato
(baritone), Iain Burnside (piano) The Assembly
Rooms, Ludlow, 6th June, 2004 (AO)
Brahms,
Symphonies Nos 3 and 4, London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink,
Barbican, 16th June 2004 (AN)
Philip
Glass, Orion (UK
Premiere), International
Soloists, Philip Glass Ensemble; Barbican
Hall, 14th June 2004 (AR)
Suk, Smetana, Janáček Janáček Quartet. Wigmore Hall, 1pm,
Monday, June 14th, 2004 (CC)
Handel, ‘Acis and Galatea’, Lufthansa
Festival of Baroque Music. Freiburg Baroque
Orchestra, dir. Nicholas Cleobury; Sophie
Daneman, Paul Agnew, James Gilchrist, Alan
Ewing: English Voices. St. John’s Smith Square,
June 12th 2004 (ME)
Brahms,
Beethoven Hélčne Grimaud (piano); Philharmonia Orchestra/Hugh
Wolff. RFH, Thursday, June 10th,
2004 (CC)
Stravinsky,
Beethoven, Prokofiev Lang
Lang (pf), London Philharmonic
Orchestra; Vladimir Jurowski (conductor);
RFH, 9th June, 2004 (AR)
"War
& Innocence"
– Bartók, Finzi, Vaughan-Williams, Patterson,
Ravel, Korth, Britten: Emily Pailthorpe (Oboe),
Julian Milford (Piano) & James Gilchrist
(Tenor), Wigmore Hall, 8th June 2004 (H-T
W)
Gustav
Mahler, Symphony No.8 Soloists & Choruses, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,
Sir Simon Rattle, Symphony Hall, Birmingham,
8th June 2004 (PB)
Bach,
Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Sarasate Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin) and
The Russian Virtuosi of Europe, Wigmore Hall,
Sunday 6 June 2004, 7pm (AN)
Prokofiev,
Romeo & Juliet (complete) Rotterdam
Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev, RFH,
6th June 2004 (MB)
Takemitsu,
Bartók,
Tchaikovsky Saito Kinen Orchestra/Seiji
Ozawa, RFH, May 28th, 2004 (CC)
Dmitri
Smirnov & Gustav Mahler soloists, London Symphony
Orchestra & Chorus; Sir Andrew Davis (conductor);
Barbican Centre, 26th May, 2004 (AR)
Bach, Goldberg Variations Joanna MacGregor (piano), Wigmore
Hall, 1pm, Monday May 24th, 2004
(CC)
Philadelphians
II: Brahms & Shostakovich
Gil Shaham (vln), Philadelphia Orchestra/Christoph Eschenbach,
Barbican, 22nd May, 2004 (MB)
Philadelphians I: Schoenberg & Mahler
Philadelphia Orchestra/Christoph Eschenbach, Barbican,
21st May, 2004 (CC)
Elgar,
Finzi, Holst, Indian DanceSoloists, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Simon
Halsey, Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 18th
May, 2004, (CT)
Janacek, Smetana, Suk Ivan Moravec (piano), LSO St Luke’s,
Old Street EC1, 13th May 2004 (MB)
Beethoven, Richard Strauss, MahlerMatthias Goerne, Alexander
Schmalcz, Wigmore Hall, 8th May
2004 (ME)
Mozart
& Shostakovich Emanuel Ax (pf); BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
(con); Barbican; 12th May 2004
(AR)
Bartók, Beethoven Takács Quartet, Wigmore Hall, 1pm,
Monday, May 10th, 2004 (CC)
Smetana,
Rodrigo, Holst Czech
National Symphony Orchestra, Carlos Bonell
(guitar), Libor Pešek (cond), Symphony Hall,
Birmingham, 7th May, 2004 (CT)
Ysa˙e,
McCabe, Bartók, S. Harrison, Rawsthorne
Peter
Sheppard Skćrved, Philippa Mo (violins), Leighton
House, Friday, May 7th, 2004 (CC)
Strauss
& MahlerChristine Schafer (sop); Royal Philharmonic Orchestra;
Daniele Gatti (con); RFH; 5th May,
2004 (AR)
Gustav Mahler Symphony Number 2 (Resurrection)Ruth Ziesak (sop), Charlotte Hellekant
(mez sop); Philharmonia Orchestra, London
Philharmonic Choir; Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor);
RFH, 29th April 2004, (AR)
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No.9 in D majorWiener Philharmoniker,
Bernard Haitink, Barbican, 28th
April 2004 (MB)
Haydn, Ravel, Say, Stravinsky Fazil Say (piano). Queen
Elizabeth Hall, Thursday, April 29th,
2004 (CC)
Mendelssohn,
Chopin, Ravel, Debussy
Nelson Goerner (piano), London Philharmonic
Orchestra; Emmanuel Krivine (conductor); RFH,
28th April, 2004, (AR)
Beethoven & TchaikovskyJulian Rachlin (violin), Leipzig
Gewandhaus Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt, Royal
Festival Hall, Sunday 25 April 2004 (AN)
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