Yannick Nézet-Séguin reviews
Schubert: Winterreise (DiDonato)
Joyce DiDonato (soprano), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (piano) (Erato)
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1; Symphonic Dances
Philadelphia Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG)
Bernstein: Mass
Kevin Vortmann; Westminster Symphonic Choir; The American Boychoir; Temple University Concert Choir & Diamond Marching Band; Philadelphia Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG)
Visions of Prokofiev (Batiashvili)
Lisa Batiashvili (violin); Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20; Piano Sonatas Nos 3 & 12; Fantasia in D minor
Seong-Jin Cho; Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG)
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
Rolando Villazón, Joyce DiDonato, Marina Rebeka, Regula Mühlemann, Tara Erraught, Adam Plachetka; RIAS Kammerchor; Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG)
Duets by Bizet, Boito, Donizetti, Verdi, Gounod, Lara and F. Hermann
This is boys having fun. And the CD is at its best when the composer is having fun too. So Rolando Villazón and Ildar Abdrazakov make the most of Donizetti’s Act I duet from L’eslisir d’amore, with Villazón a plaintive love-sick Nemorino and Abdrazakov a snake-like Dulcamara.
Trifonov completes Rachmaninov Piano Concerto cycle with a flourish
‘Trifonov frames the two Concertos with two of his imaginative and resourceful piano transcriptions’