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Month: May 2019

An Evening of Contrasts with Canada’s NACO under Alexander Shelley

08/06/201920/05/2019 by Christopher Sallon

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Sokolović, Ravel, and Brahms: David DQ Lee (countertenor), Jan Lisiecki (piano), National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada / Alexander Shelley (conductor). Cadogan Hall, London, 14.5.2019. (CSa)

Alexander Shelley (c) Andre Ringuette/Freestyle Photography

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Terrific Tchaikovsky from Jonathan Plowright

08/06/201920/05/2019 by Colin Clarke

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Paderewski, Tchaikovsky: Jonathan Plowright (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 19.5.2019. (CC)

Jonathan Plowright (c) Diane Shaw
Jonathan Plowright (c) Diane Shaw

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Another Opportunity to Experience Henze’s Phaedra in London

08/06/201920/05/2019 by Mark Berry

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Henze, Phaedra: Soloists, Southbank Sinfonia / Edmund Whitehead (conductor), Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London, 16.5.2019. (MB)

Phaedra (c) Bill Cooper

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Raw Streetcar Named Desire Premieres In Buenos Aires

08/06/201920/05/2019 by Jonathan Spencer Jones

ArgentinaArgentina Previn, A Streetcar Named Desire: Soloists and Orchestra / David Brophy (conductor). Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 14.5.2019. (JSJ)

A Streetcar Named Desire premiered in Teatro Colón. (Photo Arnaldo Colombaroli)
A Streetcar Named Desire (c) Arnaldo Colombaroli

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In San Francisco, Tilson Thomas’s Gripping Mahler Seventh

08/06/201920/05/2019 by Harvey Steiman

United StatesUnited States Mahler: San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. 16.5.2019. (HS)

Michael Tilson Thomas

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Vale of Glamorgan Fiftieth Anniversary Festival Begins in Cardiff

08/06/201920/05/2019 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

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United KingdomUnited KingdomVale of Glamorgan Festival [1]: Cardiff, 18.5.2019. (PCG)

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Christian Tetzlaff Gives His All in Elgar’s Violin Concerto

08/06/201919/05/2019 by Rob Barnett

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Elgar, Rachmaninoff: Christian Tetzlaff (violin), BBC Philharmonic / John Storgårds (conductor). Bridgewater Hall Manchester, 18.5.2019. (RBa)

John Storgårds

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University of Plymouth’s Musica Viva Concert Series on Course for a ‘First’

08/06/201919/05/2019 by Philip Buttall

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Debussy, Szymanowski, Shostakovich: Dante Quartet, Robert Taub (piano). University of Plymouth Sherwell Centre, Plymouth 17.5.2019. (PRB)

Dante Quartet with Robert Taub (c) Philip R Buttall

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