United Kingdom BBC PROM 31 – Bernstein, Gershwin, Ives: Inon Barnatan (piano), Minnesota Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 6.8.2018. (CC)
Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra’s Superb Account of Ives’ Second Symphony
Month: August 2018
A New Production of The Magic Flute Premieres at the Festival Castell Peralada
Spain Festival Castell Peralada 2018 [2] – Mozart, Die Zauberflöte: Liceu Chorus and Orchestra/Josep Pons (conductor), Castle Gardens Auditorium, Peralada, 6.8.2018. (JMI)
Cultured and Technically Adept Chamber Music from the Navarra Quartet
United Kingdom Lake District Summer Music – Haydn, Britten, Schubert: Navarra Quartet (Magnus Johnston, Marije Johnston, Rebecca Jones, Brian O’Kane), St. Thomas’s Church, Kendal, Cumbria, 6.8.2018. (MC)
Still Celebrating! Bramwell Tovey Conducts Bernstein’s Songfest at Tanglewood
United States Tanglewood [2]- Bernstein, Sibelius: Soloists, Boston Symphony Orchestra / Bramwell Tovey (conductor), Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, 4.8.2018. (RP)
THE PIANIST GEORGE HARLIONO IN CONVERSATION WITH GREGOR TASSIE
George Harliono talks with Gregor Tassie
Among the finalists for the 2018 Brit Awards was the brilliant young pianist George Harliono, unfortunately he didn’t win an award but certainly this seventeen-year-old has already been causing a stir in the classical music world. The young teenager George Harliono from Cambridge became a media celebrity a couple of years ago when he was invited to play with the Mariinsky Orchestra in Russia, and since which he has given several high-profile concerts in Russia and has played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, played at the Wigmore Hall, and this autumn will play at the Berlin Philharmonic. But he comes from a musical family for his older brother Joshua is studying violin at the Guildhall School of Music and his sister Adelaide plays cello in the National Children’s Orchestra.
Angela Hewitt Takes The Well-Tempered Clavier Another Step Forward
Canada The 2018 Vancouver International Bach Festival [1]: Angela Hewitt (piano), Chan Centre, Vancouver, 31.7.2018. (GN)
This Year’s ‘Wagner für Kinder’ at Bayreuth was Der Ring des Nibelungen
Germany Bayreuth Festival 2018 [6] – ‘Wagner für Kinder’, Der Ring des Nibelungen: Soloists, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt (Oder) / Azis Sadikovic (conductor), Probebühne IV auf der Parkseite des Festspielgeländes, Bayreuth, 31.7.2018. (JPr)
A Splendid Bach Concert Closes Baroque Itinéraire 2018
France Baroque Itinéraire 2018 [4] – Bach: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman (conductor). Église Abbatiale Saint-Cybard de Cercles, Périgord vert, France, 29.7.2018. (CC)
