United Kingdom Schumann, Colin Matthews, David Matthews, Fauré: The Schubert Ensemble [William Howard (piano), Simon Blendis (violin), Jane Salmon (cello), Douglas Paterson (viola)], Cheltenham Music Festival, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, 5.7.2013 (RJ)
Month: July 2013
Atmospheric Sawer Première at Cheltenham Music Festival
United Kingdom David Sawer, Morton Feldman/Samuel Beckett: Thomas Howes, William Oxborrow (actors), Birmingham Contemporary Music Group / Martyn Brabbins (conductor), Cheltenham Music Festival, Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham, 4.7.2013. (RJ)
The Treaty of Utrecht Commemorated in London
United Kingdom Handel and Adrian Thomas: Soloists, Choristers of Utrecht Cathedral Chior School, Toonkunstkoor Utrecht, Canon Michael Hampel (narrator), English Chamber Orchestra, Jos Vermunt (conductor). St Paul’s Cathedral, London, 4.6.2013 (MB)
Suffragette Opera Receives its World Premiere
United Kingdom Tim Benjamin, Emily:Singers and Orchestra conducted by Antony Brannick, Hippodrome Theatre, Halifax Road, Todmorden, West Yorkshire. 4.07.2013. (RB)
Boston Ballet on Top Form in Rare London Appearance
United Kingdom Boston Ballet 50th Anniversary Season: Dancers of the Boston Ballet and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Jonathan McPhee (conductor), Coliseum, London, 3.7.2013. (JPr)
Rare Mozart Returns to Barcelona’s Licieu
Spain Mozart: Lucio Silla, Liceu’s Orchestra and Chorus / Harry Bicket (conductor), Barcelona’s Liceu. 1 and 2.7.2013. (JMI)
Bach, the Stockhausen Antidote
Germany J.S.Bach: Monika Eder (soprano), Maarten Engeltjes (countertenor), Tilman Lichdi (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Ton Koopman (conductor), Munich Philharmonc, Philharmonic Hall Gasteig, Munich, 27.6.2013 (JFL)
Urban and Bucolic: Pacific Northwest Chamber Music
United States Brahms, Beethoven, Honegger, and Enescu: Seattle Chamber Music Society, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 29.6.2013
Liszt, Hahn, and Schumann: Paul Hersh (piano), Zachary Gordin (baritone), Olympic Music Festival, Quilcene, WA, 30.6.2013 (BJ)