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All Seen and Heard Reviews: January -
June 2005
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Opera
Mozart,
Cosě fan tutte: Soloists,
orchestra and chorus of the Benjamin Britten International
Opera School, Michael Rosewell,
conductor; Ian Judge, director; Alison Nalder,
designer; Mark Doubleday, lighting; The Royal College
of Music, London, 29 June 2005 (ED)
Rossini, Le
Comte Ory:
Garsington
Opera, 25 June 2005 (H-T W)
Giacomo
Meyerbeer, Les Huguenots: soloists,
chorus and orchestra of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie,
Ličge, Belgium, Jacques Lacombe (conductor), Robert
Fortune (director), Christophe Vallaux (scenery),
Rosalie Varda (costumes), Jean Michel Bauer (lighting),
Edouard Rasquin (chorus director), 21 June 2005 (ED)
Strauss,
Arabella:
Garsington
Opera, 19th June 2005 (H-T
W)
Pearl
Fishers and Queen
of Spades at San Francisco Opera (HS)
Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin Soloists, Chorus
& Orchestra of English National Opera/Jonathan
Darlington, Coliseum, 14 June, 2005 (CC)
Bartók,
Duke Bluebeard's Castle
(semi-staged
production): soloists, Opera North orchestra and chorus,
Richard Farnes, Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 11th June,
2005 (BK)
Pjotr
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (New
production) at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, 10 June,
2005 (GF)
Tchaikovsky,
Iolanta
(new concert version production):
soloists, Welsh National
Opera orchestra and chorus, Vassily Sinaisky, Bristol
Hippodrome, 9th June 2005 (BK)
Die
Fledermaus:
The Opera Company of
Philadelphia ends its season on a high
note (BJ)
Richard
Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier:
Soloists, Los Angeles Opera
Orchestra, Chorus and Children’s Chorus/William
Vendice, Chorus Master, Kent Nagano, Conductor, Los
Angeles Opera, 1 June 2005 (GS)
Verdi,
Falstaff:
Kent Nagano, conductor;
Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los
Angeles, 28 May, 2005 (opening matinée) (HS)
Finnish
National Opera Chorus - 60th Anniversary Gala
soloists,
Finnish National Opera chorus and orchestra, Muhai
Tang, 27th May, 2005 (BK)
Mozart,
‘Cosi fan Tutte’
English
National Opera, London Coliseum,
26 May, 2005 (ME)
Einojuhani
Rautavaara, 'Rasputin'
soloists,
Finnish National Opera
orchestra and chorus, Mikko Franck 23rd May, 2005
(BK)
Verdi,
Macbeth:
Soloists, chorus
and orchestra of Frankfurt Opera, Conductor: Paolo
Carignani, Director: Calixto Bieito, Sets: Alfons
Flores, Costumes: Nicola Reichert, Premiere on May
22, 2005 (SM)
HANDEL
Chloris, Thyrsis, and Philenus:
Margaret Bragle, Marguerite Krull, Drew Minter; Tempesta
di Mare; conducted by Richard Stone; directed by Drew
Minter; Levitt Theater of the Gershman Y, Philadelphia,
21 May 2005 (BJ)
Shostakovich,
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (in German),
Soloists, chorus and orchestra
at Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Conductor: Fabrizio Ventura.
Director: Manfred Beilharz. Sets and costumes: Bernd
Holzapfel, May 16, 2005 (SM)
Mozart,
The Magic Flute (in English)
(new
production premiere): soloists, Welsh National Opera
orchestra and chorus, Jean-Yves Ossonce, Wales Millennium
Centre, Cardiff 14th May, 2005 (BK)
Handel,
‘Jephtha’
English National Opera: dir.
Nicholas Kraemer, 12 May 2005 (ME)
Maazel,
1984 (world
premiere): Soloists, orchestra
and chorus of Royal Opera House, Lorin Maazel (conductor),
ROH, Covent Garden, 6 May 2005 (MB)
Alban
Berg, Lulu:
Soloists,
English National Opera, Coliseum, 18 April 2005 (TJH)
Heppner
and Meier triumph in video Tristan:
Tristan
und Isolde, Opéra national de Paris, 16
April 2005 by Stefan Lühle
G.
Puccini, Turandot at
the Finnish National Opera, April 16 2005 (GF)
G
Puccini, Tosca
at the Finnish National Opera,
April 15 2005 (GF)
Pietro
MASCAGNI, Cavalleria rusticana,
Santuzza, Dolora Zajick (mezzo-soprano);
Turiddu, Ian Storey (tenor); Mamma Lucia, Frances
McCafferty (mezzo-soprano); Alfio, Peter Sidhom (baritone);
Lola, Leah-Marian Jones (mezzo-soprano), Hallé
Choir and Hallé Youth Choir, Hallé Orchestra,
Mark Elder, The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 14 April
2005 (RJF)
R.
Wagner, Parsifal, (new
production) Finnish National
Opera, 4th April 2005 (BK)
Verdi:
Don Carlo,
Soloists, The Metropolitan
Opera, Fabio Luisi (cond), Metropolitan Opera House,
New York City, 2 April, 2005 (BH)
Gioachino
ROSSINI, La Cenerentola,
Performance at the Royal
Northern College of Music, Manchester, March 9th 2005
(RJF)
Stravinsky
Les Noces and Oedipus Rex:
Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra
of the Mariinsky Theatre/Valery Gergiev, Barbican
Hall, February 25th, 2005 (CC)
Alban
Berg, Wozzeck
(new production premiere)
Soloists, Welsh National Opera, Wales Millennium Centre,
Cardiff, 19th Frebruary 2005 (BK)
ADAMS
The Death of Klinghoffer
Howard Reddy, Elif Ezgi
Kutlu, Charles Unice, Frédéric Antoun,
James J. Kee, Hanan Tarabay, Alexander Tall, Lishir
Inbar, Brenden Patrick Gunnell, Elizabeth De Shong;
The Philadelphia Singers; Curtis Symphony Orchestra;
Curtis Opera Theatre concert production, conducted
by David Hayes, directed by Susan Fenichell; Perelman
Theater at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 18 February
2005 (BJ)
Mozart,
Die Zauberflöte,
Opéra National
de Paris, Bastille, February 18, 2005 (FC)
Rossini,
The Barber of Seville
Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra
of English National Opera/Dominic Wheeler, Coliseum,
February 16th, 2005 (CC)
MOZART,
Die Zauberflöte
Soloists, Orchestra
of the Royal Opera House, dir. Charles Mackerras,
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, February 14th 2005
(ME)
Giuseppe
VERDI, Don Carlos
at The Royal Opera in
Stockholm, February 12, 2005 (GF)
WAGNER,
Die Feen,
Soloists, chorus and orchestra,
Francesco Corti (conductor), Johannes Reitmeier (director),
Pfalztheater, Kaiserslautern, February 5th, 2005 (SM)
with
Wagner, Die Feen, Soloists, chorus
and orchestra, Evan Christ (conductor), Christian
Pöppelreiter (director), Mainfrankentheater,
Würzburg, February 12th, 2005 (SM)
Mozart,
‘La Clemenza di Tito’
English National Opera, soloists,
ENO orchestra, dir. Roland Böer, London Coliseum,
Saturday February 5th 2005 (ME)
PUCCINI
Turandot,
Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra
of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Wednesday,
January 26th, 2005 (CC)
Wolfgang
Amadeus MOZART, Don Giovanni,
Opera North at the Grand Theatre, Leeds, January 15th
2005 (RJF)
Giacomo PUCCINI:
Tosca at
the Royal Opera in Stockholm
on January 7, 2005 (GF)
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International
Concerts and Festivals
Mahler:
Symphony No. 6 in A minor (1903-05, rev. 1906): New York Philharmonic,
Lorin Maazel, conductor, Avery Fisher Hall, New York City,
June 22 and 25, 2005 (BH)
Stravinsky, Les Noces and Haydn,
Mass in B flat major (Harmoniemesse): Martina
Jankova (soprano), Rinat
Shaham (mezzo soprano), Mark Padmore and Timothy
Robinson (tenors), John Relyea (baritone), Katia
Labeque, Marielle Labeque, Thomas Ades, Lars Vogt
(pianos), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon
Rattle, Philharmonie, Berlin, 23 June, 2005 (SM)
Kraft
and Beethoven: David Herbert,
timpani soloist; Twyla Robinson, soprano; Gigi Mitchell-Velasco,
mezzo soprano; Anthony Dean Griffey,
tenor; Raymond Aceto,
bass; San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson
Thomas conductor; San Francisco Symphony Chorus,
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 10 June, 2005
(HS)
Ravel,
Beethoven, Dutilleux: The
Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor,
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California,
9 June, 2005 (BH)
Ives,
Adams, Ravel: Los Angeles Philharmonic,
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director,
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City,
5 June, 2005 (BH)
Dvořák, Barber, Dutilleux, Haydn:
Carter
Brey, cello, New
York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor, Avery
Fisher Hall, New York City, 4 June, 2005 (BH)
Stravinsky,
Dahl, Debussy, Mozart: Cleveland Orchestra,
Franz Werner-Möst, conductor, Davies Symphony
Hall, San Francisco, 3 June 2005 (HS)
Esa-Pekka
Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic –
end of season concerts:
Tracy
Silverman (electric violin);
Pacific Chorale, John Alexander, music director;
Performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles,
California, USA, 26, 27, 28, 29 May 2005 (GS)
Ensemble
Intercontemporain (II):
Ligeti: Piano
Concerto (1985-88), Rihm: Jagden
und Formen (1995-2001, U.S. Premiere), Michael
Wendeberg, piano, Ensemble intercontemporain,
Jonathan Nott, conductor, Rose Theatre
at Time Warner Center, New York City, 25 May, 2005
(BH)
Ensemble
Intercontemporain (I):
Benedict Mason:
ChaplinOperas (1988, U.S. Premiere)
[Including Easy Street (1917), The
Immigrant (1917), and The Adventurer
(1917)], Della Jones, mezzo-soprano, Richard
Stuart, bass-baritone, Ensemble intercontemporain,
Jonathan Nott, conductor, Rose Theatre at Time Warner
Center, New York City, 24 May, 2005 (BH)
Tomorrow’s
Voices: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 15 May,
2005 (BH)
Haydn:
Symphony No. 22 in E-flat major, The Philosopher,
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor,
Minnesota Orchestra,
Markus Stenz, conductor,
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 13 May,
2005 (BH)
Wagner,
Schoenberg, and Beethoven:
Daniel Barenboim, Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, Verizon Hall, Philadelphia,
11 May 2005 (BJ)
Hellenic
Music Festival in Athens:
Koundourof, Vrondos, Christou,
Christodoulou, Skalkottas, Geoffrey Douglas Madge,
Piano, Athens Municipality Symphony Orchestra, Nikos
Christodoulou, Conductor, Megaron, Athens, 10 May
2005 (ARi)
Bamberg
Symphony in New York (II):
Pierre-Laurent Aimard,
Piano, Stiftung Bamberger Symphoniker – Bayerische
Staatsphilharmonie, Jonathan Nott, Chief Conductor,
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, 8 May, 2005 (BH)
Bamberg
Symphony in New York (I):
Pierre-Laurent Aimard,
Piano, Stiftung Bamberger Symphoniker – Bayerische
Staatsphilharmonie, Jonathan Nott, Chief Conductor,
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, 6 May, 2005 (BH)
Martinu,
Klein, Shostakovich, and Bartók:
Vadim Repin, Philadelphia
Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, Verizon Hall, Philadelphia,
5 May 2005 (BJ)
Handel,
Hummel, Lenz, Kodaly:
Langroise Trio (Geoffrey
Trabichoff, violin; David Johnson, viola; and Samuel
Smith, cello), Albertson College, Caldwell, Idaho,
USA, 4 May, 2005 (PS)
Brian
Ferneyhough:
played by Ensemble
21, reviewed by Bruce Hodges
Schubert
Winterreise:
Kurt Moll (bass),
Ken Noda (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center,
Philadelphia, 27 April 2005 (BJ)
Wittener
Tage fuer Neue Kammermusik
22 – 24 April 2005 reviewed
by John Warnaby
Look
and Listen Festival 2005 (II):
Robert
Miller Gallery, New York City, 16 April, 2005 (BH)
Look
and Listen Festival 2005 (I):
Robert Miller Gallery,
New York City, 14 April, 2005 (BH)
Fauré,
MacMillan, Beethoven:
Martha Argerich, Piano,
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit, Conductor,
Carnegie Hall, New York City, 12 April, 2005 (BH)
Lerdahl,
Toledo, Levine, Kurtág:
The Columbia Sinfonietta,
Susan Narucki, Soprano, Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor
and music director, Merkin Concert Hall, New York
City, 11 April, 2005 (BH)
Beethoven
& Shostakovich:
Mitsuko Uchida, piano, New
York Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov, Avery Fisher
Hall, New York City, 9 April, 2005 (BH)
Fauré,
MacMillan, and Beethoven: Martha Argerich, Philadelphia Orchestra, Charles
Dutoit, 8 April 2005 (BJ)
Kirov
in New York (III): Mahler: Symphony No.
2 in C Minor, “Resurrection”, Soloists,
Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery
Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor, Carnegie
Hall, New York City, 6 April, 2005 (BH)
Kirov
in New York (II): Leonidas Kavakos, Violin,
Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery
Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor, Carnegie
Hall, New York City, 5 April, 2005 (BH)
Kirov
in New York (I): Yefim Bronfman, Piano, Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky
Theatre, Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor,
Carnegie Hall, New York City, 4 April, 2005 (BH)
Voigt,
Birtwistle, Ligeti, Feldman:
Either/Or, Tenri
Cultural Institute, New York City, 1 April 2005
(BH)
Vaughan
Williams, Haydn, and Elgar:
Philadelphia Orchestra, Sir
Roger Norrington, 1 April 2005 (BJ)
Schumann,
Debussy, Beethoven: Ivan Moravec (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel
Center, Philadelphia, 28 March 2005 (BJ)
Dvorák,
Barber, and Shostakovich:
Hilary Hahn, Philadelphia
Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg, 26 March 2005 (BJ)
Bach
and Messiaen: Sheryl Staples, Violin,
Sherry Sylar, Oboe, New York Philharmonic, Kent
Nagano, Conductor, Avery Fisher Hall, New York City,
March 26, 2005 (BH)
Making
Music:
John Adams, Soloists and Orchestra, Zankel Hall
at Carnegie Hall, New York City, March 21, 2005
(BH)
Maurizio
Pollini in Athens: Beethoven, Megaron, Athens,
22nd March 2005 (ARi)
Two
More Sides of Christoph Eschenbach
by Bernard Jacobson
- Penderecki, Mozart,
and Beethoven Díaz Trio,
Christoph Eschenbach; Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center,
Philadelphia, 16 March 2005
- Ravel, Sierra, and Salonen
Andrés Cardenes, Philadelphia Orchestra,
Christoph Eschenbach; Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center,
17 March 2005
Polyglot
Polyrhythms,
The New York New Music
Ensemble, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, March
14, 2005 (BH)
Smetana,
Grieg, and Dvořák:
Barbara
Bonney, Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach,
12 March 2005 (BJ)
MAHLER,
Symphony No.7,
San Francisco Symphony,
Michael Tilson Thomas, Davies Hall, San Francisco,
11th March 2005 (HS)
R.
Strauss, Chen Yi, Chen Gang/He Zhanhao
:
Yo-Yo Ma (Cello), Gil
Shaham (Violin), Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan
Shui, Music Director and Conductor, Avery Fisher
Hall, New York City, March 2, 2005 (BH)
Corigliano
Premiere:
The University of Texas
Wind Ensemble, Jerry Junkin, Conductor, Robert Carnochan,
Guest Conductor, Carnegie Hall, New York City, February
27, 2005 (BH)
Pärt,
Musorgsky, Stravinsky: Marina
Domashenko, Mezzo-soprano
(New York Philharmonic debut), The New York Philharmonic,
Riccardo Chailly, Conductor, Avery Fisher Hall,
New York City, 19th February 2005 (BH)
Quintets
and Sextets: Music from Copland House: Derek
Bermel, Clarinet, Michael Boriskin, Piano,
Paul Lustig Dunkel, Flute, Nicholas Kitchen,
Violin, Wilhelmina Smith, Cello,
Guest artists: Timothy Fain, Violin, Danielle
Farina, Viola, Miller Theatre, New York
City, 18th February 2005 (BH)
Hindemith,
Tchaikovsky, & Beethoven:
David Kim, Philadelphia
Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Verizon Hall, Philadelphia,
18 February 2005 (BJ)
Schumann,
Das Paradies und die Peri (Paradise and the Peri),
Laura Aikin (soprano);
Kristine Jepson (mezzo soprano), Christoph Présgardien
(tenor), Bojan Knezevic (bass), San Francisco Symphony
Chorus, San Francisco Symphony, Ingo Metzmacher,
conductor, Davies Hall, San Francisco, February
16, 2005 (HS)
Dallapiccola,
Carter, Schoenberg:
Dawn Upshaw (soprano), The MET Chamber Ensemble,
James Levine, Zankel Hall, New York City, 13 February
2005 (BH)
Rossini,
Verdi, Puccini, and Brahms:
Barbara Frittoli, Philadelphia
Orchestra, Riccardo Muti, Verizon Hall, 13 February
2005 (BJ)
Mahler:
Symphony No. 7,
New
York Philharmonic, Riccardo Chailly, Conductor,
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, February 12,
2005 (BH)
Dvorák
& Beethoven:
Leonidas Kavakos
(violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch,
Verizon Hall, Philadelphia, 10 February 2005 (BJ)
Perle
& Pierrot: Celebrating George Perle’s
90th Year:
Da Capo Chamber Players,
Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, February 7,
2005 (BH)
Arnold
Schönberg: GURRELIEDER,
John Treleaven, Tenor
(Waldemar); Angela Denoke, Soprano (Tove); Lilli
Paasikivi, Mezzo-Soprano (The Wood Dove); Christopher
Maltman, Baritone (Peasant); Anthony Dean Griffey,
Tenor (Klaus-Narr); Barbara Sukowa (Speaker); Los
Angeles Master Chorale (Grant Gershon, Music Director),
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor,
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California
February 6, 2005 (GS)
The
Cleveland Orchestra in New York (IV):
Beethoven,
Schubert, Berg, Radu Lupu (piano), The Cleveland
Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor, Carnegie
Hall, New York City, February 5, 2005 (BH)
Beethoven and Elgar:
Andreas Haefliger (piano),
Philadelphia Orchestra, Donald Runnicles, Verizon
Hall, Philadelphia, 5 February, 2005 (BJ
The
Cleveland Orchestra in New York (III):
Birtwistle, Dutilleux, Beethoven, Radu Lupu (piano),
The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst,
Conductor, Carnegie Hall, New York City, February
4 2005 (BH
The
Cleveland Orchestra in New York (II): Beethoven and Harris, Radu Lupu (piano), The
Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor,
Carnegie Hall, New York City, February 2 2005 (BH)
The
Cleveland Orchestra in New York (I): Beethoven and Shostakovich, Radu Lupu (piano),
The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst,
conductor, Carnegie Hall, New York City, February
1 2005 (BH)
Birtwistle
(performed and with composer commentary):
Soloists, Brad Lubman (conductor), Ara Guzelimian
(moderator), Zankel Hall, New York City, January
31, 2005 (BH)
The
Met Orchestra, José van Dam, Bass-Baritone,
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor, Carnegie
Hall, New York City, January 30, 2005 (BH)
Boulez
and Stravinsky: London Symphony Orchestra,
Pierre Boulez (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York
City, January 29, 2005 (BH)
FOCUS!
2005 Breaking the Chains: the Soviet Avant-Garde,
1966-1991:
Shostakovich: Symphony
No. 15 (1971), Gubaidulina: Stimmen...verstummen
(1986), Juilliard Symphony, Reinbert de Leeuw, Conductor,
Juilliard Theater, New York City, January 28, 2005
(BH)
Boulez:
Livre pour cordes, Mahler: Symphony No.
5, London Symphony
Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, Conductor, Carnegie Hall,
New York City, January 27, 2005 (BH)
Mozart
and Tchaikovsky (and Brahms):
Ricardo Morales, Philadelphia
Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, 27 January (BJ)
Bartok,
Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra,
Stephane
Lemelin, Andrew Tunis (pianos); Kenneth Simpson, Jonathan Wade (percussion), Ottawa
Symphony Orchestra/David Currie, Ottawa, January
24th 2005 (BB)
Focus!
2005: Breaking the Chains: The Soviet Avant-garde,
1966-1991,
Music by Pärt, Kancheli,
Silvestrov, Schnittke, New Juilliard Ensemble, Joel
Sachs (Director), Juilliard Theater, New York City,
21st January 2005 (BH)
Weber,
Carter, Mahler,
Anne Sofie von Otter, Mezzo-Soprano,
Ben Heppner, Tenor, The MET Orchestra,
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor, Carnegie
Hall, New York City, 23rd January, 2005 (BH)
Mozart
and Strauss:
Emanuel Ax, Richard
Woodhams, Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach,
21 January (BJ)
BERIO
Stanze (2003) (New
York premiere)
and Wagner Act
III from Parsifal John Keyes, Tenor (Parsifal)
Andreas Schmidt, Bass-Baritone (Amfortas)
Matthias Hoelle, Bass (Gurnemanz) Roberta
Knie, Soprano (Kundry), The Philadelphia
Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, Music Director
and Conductor, The Philadelphia Singers Choral,
David Hayes, Music Director, Carnegie Hall, New
York City, January 18, 2005 (BH)
CPE Bach,
J Haydn and Mozart:
Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Orchestra, Ton Koopman,
Alte Oper, Frankfurt, January 15, 2005 and JS Bach
and Mozart: English Chamber Orchestra, Shlomo Mintz,
Alte Oper, Frankfurt, January 18, 2005 (SM)
Beethoven
and Haydn:
Mitsuko Uchida, Los Angeles
Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Walt Disney Concert
Hall, 16 January 2005 (BJ)
The
London Philharmonic Orchestra in Athens:
Beethoven Cycle, Soloists, London Philharmonic Orchestra,
Kurt Masur, Megaron, Athens, 12th to 15th January
2005 (ARi)
BEN HEPPNER
RECITAL: Songs by Grieg,
Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Tosti,
Ben Hepper, tenor; Craig
Rutenberg, piano, Davies
Symphony Hall, San Francisco, January 16, 2005 (HS)
One
Tower and Two Tasty Trifles: San
Francisco Symphony and Chorus,
vocal soloists, organ soloist, percussion soloists,
Michael Tilson Thomas, Davies Symphony Hall, San
Francisco, January 7, 2005 (HS)
Mahler’s
Ninth Symphony: Philadelphia Orchestra,
Christoph Eschenbach,
Verizon Hall, 6 January
2005 (BJ
UK
Concerts and Recitals
Mozart,
Schumann, Schubert, Beethoven Alfred Brendel
(piano), Royal Festival Hall, 22 June, 2005 (CC)
Previn
at 75 (III):
Korngold and Walton:
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), London Symphony Orchestra,
André Previn (conductor), Barbican Centre, 22
June, 2005 (AR)
Previn
at 75 (II): André Previn,
Richard Strauss: Tim Hugh (cello); London Symphony
Orchestra; André Previn (piano/conductor), Barbican Centre, 18 June, 2005 (AR)
BBC
Cardiff Singer Of The World: Main
Prize Final Concert,
St David's Hall, Cardiff 19th June 2005 (BK)
BBC
Cardiff Singer Of The World: Rosenblatt
Recital Song Prize Final Concert, St David's Hall,
Cardiff 17th June 2005 (BK)
Mozart
and Elgar:
Mitsuko Uchida, piano, Philharmonia
Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor),
Royal Festival Hall, 16 June, 2005 (AR)
Previn
at 75 (I): Davies, Mozart,
Shostakovich, London Symphony Orchestra, André
Previn (piano/conductor), Barbican Centre, 14
June, 2005 (AR)
Mozart: Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K550; Piano Concerto
no. 24 in C minor, K491; Requiem in D minor, K626. Philharmonia
Orchestra and Chorus, Mitsuko
Uchida, soloists, cond. Sir Charles Mackerras. Royal Festival Hall, 12 June, 2005 (ME)
Debussy,
Images
and Sibelius, Symphony No.2 in D major,
Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra of Amsterdam, Mariss Jansons (conductor), Barbican,
12 June, 2005 (MB)
Mozart,
Ravel, Chopin
Krystian Zimerman (piano),
Royal Festival Hall, 9 June, 2005 (CC)
Martinů,
Dvořák, Britten, Ravel, Mussorgsky
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo); Malcolm Martineau (piano),
QEH, 8 June, 2005 (CC)
SONGS
TO TEXTS BY THÉOPHILE GAUTIER:
Gounod, Fauré,
Deparc, de Falla, Berlioz Bernarda Fink (mezzo);
Roger Vignoles (piano), Wigmore Hall, 1pm, 6 June,
2005 (CC)
Bartók
and Beethoven:
Richard Goode (piano),
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
(conductor), Barbican Centre, 3 & 4 June,
2005 (AR)
Shostakovich
& Tchaikovsky:
Mayu Kishima,
violin, London Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich,
conductor, Barbican, 2 June, 2005 (TJH)
“Songs
Of The Americas”:
Liebermann, Rorem, Bolcom,
Guastavino, Lecuona, Carole Farley (soprano),
Lowell Liebermann (piano), William Bolcom (piano),
John Constable (piano), Fabio Zanon (guitar),
Wigmore Hall, 1 June, 2005 (AO)
Purcell,
Tippett, Finzi, Wigglesworth, Warlock, Gurney,
Britten:
James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano),
Wigmore Hall, 26 May, 2005 (AO)
Messiaen,
Berg, Tchaikovsky
Christian Tetzlaff
(violin); LPO/Vladimir Jurowski, Royal Festival
Hall, 26 May, 2005 (CC)
Schubert
Songs: Christine
Schäfer (soprano),
Graham Johnson (piano), Wigmore Hall, London,
24 May 2005 (AO)
Beethoven,
Shostakovich, Haydn:
Hagen String Quartet,
Wigmore Hall, 23 May, 2005 (CC)
Bernstein,
Shostakovich, Rachmaninov:
Han-Na Chang (cello), London
Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano (conductor),
Barbican Centre, 22 May, 2005 (AR)
Shostakovich
and Rachmaninov:
Galina Gorchakova (soprano),
Ilya Levinsky (tenor), Pavel Baransky (baritone),
BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka
Saraste, (conductor), Barbican Centre, London,
21 May, 2005 (AO)
Mozart:
orchestral and operatic music:
Orchestra Of Opera North/Janusz, Ripon Cathedral,
21 May (JL)
Ligeti
Concert
Pierre-Laurent Aimard,
Keller Quartet, Wigmore Hall, 18 May, 2005 (CC)
International
Benjamin:
London Sinfonietta,
George Benjamin, piano/conductor, Queen Elizabeth
Hall, 18 May 2005 (TJH)
Weber,
Overture and arias from ‘Der Freischütz:
Mendelssohn,
Violin Concerto Op. 64, Symphony no. 3:
The Academy of Ancient Music,
cond. Christopher Hogwood; Christiane Oelze, Giuliano
Carmignola, Barbican Hall, 16 May 2005 (ME)
Puccini
Gala Concert:Angela
Gheorghiu (soprano); Philharmonia Orchestra/Ion
Marin, Royal Festival Hall, 10 May, 2005 (CC)
Debussy
& Beethoven:
Takács Quartet
(Edward Dusinberre, Károly Schranz, violins;
Roger Tapping; András Fejér, cello),
Wigmore Hall, 9 May, 2005 (CC)
Schubert
& Kancheli:
Alban Berg Quartet, Heinrich
Schiff, cello, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 9 May, 2005
(TJH)
Lufthansa
Festival of Baroque Music:
Handel, ‘Aci,
Galatea e Polifemo’, The English Concert,
dir. Andrew Manze; Carolyn Sampson, Hilary Summers,
Charbel Mattar, St. John’s, Smith Square,
7 May, 2005 (ME)
Beethoven,
Missa Solemnis:
Claudia Barainsky
(soprano), Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano),
Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Michael Volle (bass),
Alessandro Moccia (violin), Collegium Vocale Gent,
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe
Herreweghe (conductor), Barbican, 7 May, 2005
(MB)
Tilson
Thomas, Prokofiev, Mahler:
Yefim Bronfman, piano, London
Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor,
Barbican, 5 May, 2005 (TJH)
Sibelius,
Strauss, Beethoven:
Soile Isokoski (soprano);
Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi
(conductor), Royal Festival Hall, 5 May, 2005
(AR)
Nigel
Rogers 70th Birthday Concert:
Carissimi, Caccini, D’India,
Frescobaldi, Marazzoli, Kapsberger, Rossi, Stradella,
Froberger: Nigel Rogers (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny
(theorbo) Lina Zilinskyte (harpsichord), Wigmore
Hall, 3 May 2005 (ME)
Cresswell,
Grieg, Rachmaninov:
Andreas Haefliger
(piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra/David Porcelijn,
Barbican Hall, 29 April, 2005 (CC)
Haydn
& Mahler:
Moray Welsh, cello,
London Symphony Orchestra, James DePreist, conductor,
Barbican, 28 April, 2005 (TJH)
LUIGI
NONO: London
Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen
(conductor), Claron McFadden (soprano), Sarah
Nicolls (piano), Sebastien Bell (contrabass flute),
Andrew Webster (contrabass clarinet), BBC Singers,
Stephen Betteridge (conductor), Sound Intermedia,
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 27 April, 2005 (AO)
Bartok
& Bruckner:
Viktoria
Mullova (violin),
Philharmonia Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor),
Royal Festival Hall, 26 April, 2005 (AR)
Ruzicka,
Britten, Schumann:
Bo Skovhus (baritone),
Stefan Vladar (piano) Wigmore Hall, 25th April,
2005 (AO)
Bach,
Lutoslawski, Brahms
Heinrich Schiff (cello);
Roger Vignoles (piano), 1pm, 25 April, 2005 (CC)
Debussy,
Bartok, Rimsky-Korsakov:
Julia Fischer (violin),
London Symphony Orchestra, Emmanuel Krivine, Barbican,
24 April 2005 (MB)
Chopin,
Maurizio Pollini (piano),
Royal Festival Hall,
24 April, 2005 (CC)
Wagner,
Strauss, Beethoven:
Susan
Bullock, soprano, Emmanuel
Ax, piano, Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen,
Royal Festival Hall, 23 April 2005 (TJH)
Haydn,
Grieg, Brahms, Poulenc, Liszt:
Angelika Kirchschlager,
Helmut Deutsch, Wigmore Hall, 23 April 2005 (ME)
MAX:
Maxwell Davis Lucy
Shelton, Claire Booth (sopranos),
London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen, QEH, 22 April,
2005 (CC)
Mozart,
Saint-Saëns, Sibelius:
Stephen
Hough, piano, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Osmo
Vänskä, conductor, Royal Festival Hall,
21 April 2005 (TJH)
Dvorák,
Barber, R. Strauss
Sally
Matthews (soprano);
Simon Lepper (piano). Wigmore Hall, 18 April,
2005 (CC)
Smetana,
Dvorák, Brahms:
Lars Vogt (piano),
Philharmonia Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek
(conductor), Royal Festival Hall, 17 April, 2005
(AR)
Arditti
Quartet at Wigmore Hall:
Irvine Arditti & Graeme
Jennings (violins); Ralf Ehlers (viola) &
Rohan de Saram (cello), Wigmore Hall, 9 and 16
April 2005 (TJH)
Lachenmann
Plus:
Helmut Lachenmann, speaker,
London Sinfonietta, Ilan Volkov, conductor, LSO
St Luke’s, 13 April 2005 (TJH)
London
International Piano Competition Finals:
Jayson Lloyd Gillham, Jean-Frédéric
Neuberger, Herbert Schuch (pianos); LPO/Sian Edwards,
Royal Festival Hall, 12 April, 2005 (CC)
Mackerras
Brahms Cycle (IV):
Truls Mørk
(cello), Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
(conductor), Royal Festival Hall, 10 April, 2005
(AR)
Mackerras
Brahms Cycle (III):
James Ehnes (violin),
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
(conductor), Royal Festival Hall, 5 April, 2005
(AR)
Bartók:
Four Orchestral Pieces,
Op 12; Piano Concerto No. 1; Concerto for Orchestra,
Daniel Barenboim, piano, Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
Pierre Boulez, conductor, Royal Festival Hall,
4 April 2005 (TJH)
MAHLER,
Symphony No.9, Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (conductor),
Royal Festival Hall, 3 April 2005 (MB)
Strauss,
Britten, Wagner, Debussy, Rorem:
Susan Bullock (soprano),
Malcolm Martineau (piano) Wigmore hall, 23 March,
2005 (AO)
Tchaikovsky,
Respighi, Stravinsky:
Ayako Uehara (piano),
London Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck
de Burgos, Barbican, 23 March 2005 (TJH)
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY, MR BOULEZ: Boulez, Schubert, Beethoven
Mitsuko
Uchida (piano), Royal Festival Hall, Wednesday
March 23rd, 2005 (CC)
J.S.
Bach, St Matthew Passion:
The King’s Consort
and Choir, dir. Robert King, Soloists, Choristers
of Wells Cathedral, St John’s, Smith Square,
March 22 2005 (ME)
Rameau
(arr. Gevaert), Messiaen
Roger
Muraro (piano), BBCSO/Sylvain Cambreling, Barbican
Hall, March 22nd, 2005 (CC)
Mackerras
Brahms Cycle (II) Paul
Lewis (piano), Philharmonia
Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor),
Royal Festival Hall, 22nd March, 2005 (AR)
Mendelssohn,
Britten, Vaughan Williams:
Patrizia Kwella (soprano) Andrew Rupp (baritone),
London Concert Choir, Canticum, Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, Mark Forkgen, (conductor) Royal Festival
Hall, London, 21st March, 2005 (AO)
Dargomïzhsky,
Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Balakirev, Shostakovich,
Salmanov, Minkov Elena
Prokina (soprano), Elena
Abeleva (piano), Wigmore Hall, 1pm, Monday March
21st, 2005 (CC)
Mackerras
Brahms Cycle (I): Till
Fellner (piano), Philharmonia
Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor),
Royal Festival Hall, 17th March, 2005 (AR)
Mahler,
R. Strauss Simon
Keenleyside (baritone); Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester,
Franz Welser-Möst, Barbican Hall, March 15,
2005 (CC)
Martinů:
Memorial to Lidice; Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony
No. 6), Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626 (compl.
F.X. Süssmayr):
Kate Royal (soprano),
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Robert Murray (tenor),
Matthew Rose (bass), BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra,
Jiří Bělohlávek, Barbican, 12 March
2005 (TJH)
Mozart:
Symphony no. 31; Serenade no. 6; Arias, Overtures
and Incidental Music:
Freiburg Baroque
Orchestra dir. Gottfried von der Goltz: Thomas
Quasthoff, Barbican Hall, Friday 11th March 2005
(ME)
Bach,
St Matthew Passion
English
Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Trinity Boys’
Choir, Mark Padmore (Evangelist) Dietrich Henschel
(Christus) cond. Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Cadogan
Hall, Thursday March 10th 2005 (ME)
Mozart
& Mahler,
Angela Hewitt (piano), London
Philharmonic Orchestra/Mark Elder, Royal Festival
Hall, March 9th, 2005 (CC)
Schubert
& Mozart
Zehetmair Trio (Thomas
Zehetmair, violin; Ruth Killius, viola; Rosie
Bliss, cello), Wigmore Hall, 1pm, Monday, March
7th, 2005 (CC)
Hartmann
& Beethoven:
Midori (violin), London
Philharmonic Orchestra, Ingo Metzmacher, Royal
Festival Hall, 5th March 2005 (T J-H)
Felix
Mendelssohn/William Shakespeare: A Midsummer's
Nights Dream:
Orchestra of the Age
of Enlightenment, Ivan Fischer (conductor), Actors
from the Globe Theatre, Tim Carroll (director),
Royal Festival Hall, London, 28th February, 2005
(AO)
Tüür,
Schumann, Pärt, Nielsen:
Truls Mørk (cello), BBC
Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi (conductor),
Barbican Hall, 24th February, 2005 (AR)
Berg,
Lyric Suite & Schubert, String Quartet No.
14 in D minor, D810 “Death and the Maiden”,
Alban Berg Quartet, Queen
Elizabeth Hall, 24th February, 2005 (T J-H)
Schubert,
Die Schöne Müllerin
(review of second
recital): Ian Bostridge (tenor), Mitsuko Uchida
(piano), Wigmore Hall, London, 24th February,
2005 (AO)
Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin, D795.
Ian Bostridge (tenor);
Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Wigmore Hall, 24th February,
2005 (CC)
Einaudi:
Ludovico Einaudi (Piano), Marco
Decimo (Cello), Royal Festival Hall, 20th February,
2005 (H-T W)
Beethoven,
Elgar, Sibelius:
Pieter Wispelwey (cello),
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Berglund,
Royal Festival Hall, 16 February 2005 (TJH)
Schubert
Trio Fontenay
(Michael Mucke, violin;
Jens Peter Mainz, cello; Wolf Harden, piano),
Wigmore Hall, 1pm, Monday, February 14th 2005
(CC)
Scarlatti,
Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninov:
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano),
Wigmore Hall, 11th February 2005 (MB)
Prokofiev
and Schumann:
Yefim Bronfman (piano),
Wigmore Hall, 9th February 2005 (TJH)
Chopin
and Rachmaninov:
Hélène
Grimaud (piano), RFH, Wednesday, February 9th,
2005 (CC)
R.
Strauss, Schoenberg, Gribbin, Chopin.
Imogen
Cooper (piano), Wigmore
Hall, 1pm, Monday, February 7th 2005 (CC)
Mendelssohn,
Beethoven, Gade:
Soloists of the Orchestra
of the Age of Enlightenment, Elizabeth Wallfisch
(leader), David Watkin (cello), Howard Moody (fortepiano),
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 6th February, 2005
(AO)
Sibelius
and Rachmaninov:
Janine
Jansen (violin), Philharmonia
Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor), RFH, 6th
February, 2005 (AR)
FELIX
MENDELSSOHN: Bach, St Matthew's Passion,
Orchestra of the Age
of Enlightenment, Roger Norrington (conductor),
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 5th February, 2005
(AO)
Debussy,
Ravel, Sibelius:
Ana-Maria
Vera (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Takuo
Yuasa (conductor), RFH, February 4 2005 (AR)
Shostakovich
and Prokofiev:
James Tocco
(piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev,
conductor, RFH, February 3 2005 (TJ-H)
GUSTAV
MAHLER: Symphony No. 7, Orchestre
National de Lyons, Alan Gilbert (conductor), Royal
Festival Hall, London, 31st January, 2005 (AO)
Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin
Mark
Padmore (tenor); Julius
Drake (piano), Wigmore Hall, Monday, January 31st,
2005 (CC)
Beethoven,
Violin Concerto and Schubert, Symphony No.9, “Great”,
Vadim Repin (violin),
Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti, Royal Festival
Hall, 30th January 2005 (MB)
Barbara
Bonney and Angelika Kirschlager Recital:
Mendelssohn,
Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Chausson, Massenet,
Fauré, Rossini, Dvorák; Malcolm
Martineau (piano), Barbican Hall, Friday, January
28th, 2005 (CC)
Geoffrey
Parsons 10th Anniversary Memorial Concert:
Various composers, Yvonne
Kenny, Sir Thomas Allen, Graham Johnson, Wigmore
Hall, January 26th 2005 (ME)
Beethoven,
Chopin, Prokofiev
Nikolaï Lugansky
(piano), Wigmore Hall, 1pm, Monday January 23rd,
2005 (CC)
Whatever
has happened to Lang Lang?
Mozart, Chopin, Schumann,
Rachmaninov, Liszt, Liszt/Horowitz Lang Lang
(piano), RFH, 3.30pm, Sunday, January 23rd, 2005
(CC)
Poulenc,
Koechlin, Bridge, Thuille, Brahms:
Conchord – Maya Koch (Violin), Douglas Paterson
(Viola), Bridget MacRae (Cello), Daniel Pailthorpe
(Flute), Emily Pailthorpe (Oboe), Barnaby Robson
(Clarinet), Andrea de Flammineis (Bassoon), Nicholas
Korth (Horn) and Julian Milford (Piano), Wigmore
Hall, 22nd January 2005 (H-T W)
Michael
TIPPETT, A Child of Our Time (staged),
Susan Gritton (soprano),
Sara Fulgoni (contralto), Timothy Robinson (tenor),
Brindley Sherratt (bass), Chorus and Orchestra
of English National Opera, Martyn Brabbins (conductor),
Coliseum, 21st January 2005 (MB)
Glinka,
Khachaturian, Dvorák
Boris
Berezovsky (piano); Philharmonia Orchestra/Leif
Segerstam, RFH, January 20th, 2005 (CC)
Beethoven,
Symphonies 6 and 7 LPO/Kurt
Masur. RFH, Wednesday, January 19th,
2005 (CC)
Shostakovich,
Prokofiev Pieter
Wispelwey (cello); Dejan Lazic (piano), Wigmore
Hall, 1 pm, Monday, January 17th, 2005 (CC)
DARKNESS
INTO LIGHT:
The Music of James MacMillan,
Barbican Hall, Friday 14th - Sunday
16th January 2005 (CC)
Szymon
LAKS, Pavel HAAS, Viktor ULLMAN, Olivier MESSIAEN,
Siegmund SCHUL,
Jacqueline Cole (piano),
Wigmore Hall, London, 15th January, 2005 (AO)
SCHREIER
AT SEVENTY: Peter Schreier
70th Birthday Concerts, Schumann,
‘Dichterliebe’ with Roger Vignoles,
Royal College of Music, Wednesday 12th
January 2005; Bach, Mass in B Minor, RCM Chamber
Choir and Orchestra, St John’s Smith Square, Friday
14th January 2005 (ME)
Janáček,
Messiaen, Elgar
Janine Jansen
(violin), Kathryn Stott (piano), Wigmore Hall,
1pm, Monday, January 10th, 2005 (CC)
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