Ashkenazy Presents Prokofiev Rarities

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prokofiev: Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Crouch End Festival Chorus, students of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, students of the Royal Academy of Music, Aidan Oliver (voice of Lenin), Philharmonia Voices, Philharmonia Orchestra /Vladimir Ashkenazy, St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 18.5.2018. (PCG)

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An Impressive Opening Night Butterfly at the 2018 Glyndebourne Festival

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2018 [1] – Puccini, Madama Butterfly: Soloists, Glyndebourne Chorus (chorus master: Nicholas Jenkins), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Omer Weir Wellber (conductor). Glyndebourne Opera House, 19.5.2018. (MB)

Butterfly (Olga Busuioc) & Pinkerton (Joshua Guerrero) (c) Robbie Jack

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Another Special Evening at Großen Garten with the Music of J.S. Bach the Clear Winner

Dresden Music Festival 2018

GermanyGermany Dresdner Musikfestspiele 2018 [7] ‘Cellomania’ – J.S. Bach: Christian Poltéra, Christian-Pierre La Marca, Harriet Krijgh, Alban Gerhardt, Alisa Weilerstein, Pieter Wispelwey  (cellos). Palais im Großen Garten, Dresden, 18.5.2018. (MC)

Jan Vogler (Intendantof the Dresden Music Festival)
with five of the six cellists for the Bach cello suites

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Dance Loses Out to Narrative in NB’s Jane Eyre Despite Strong Performances

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Northern Ballet’s Jane Eyre: Soloists, Coryphée and Dancers of Northern Ballet, Northern Ballet Sinfonia / John Pryce-Jones (conductor). Sadler’s Wells, London, 15.5.2018. (JO’D)

Dreda Blow (Jane Eyre), Dominique Larose & Mariana Rodrigues as St. John’s Sisters
in Jane Eyre (c) Emma Kauldhar

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This Concert of Prokofiev and Mahler by the Concertgebouw Will Lodge Resolutely in the Memory

Dresden Music Festival 2018

GermanyGermany Dresdner Musikfestspiele 2018 [6] – Prokofiev, Mahler: Daniil Trifonov (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Daniele Gatti (conductor), Kulturpalast, Dresden, Germany 16.5.2018. (MC)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Daniele Gatti (conductor) & Daniil Trifonov (piano)
(c) Oliver Killig

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