2022 – Page 2 – Seen and Heard International

Tremendous Edinburgh debut by the glorious virtuosi of Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra

14/06/2022 by Gregor Tassie

United Kingdom Bartók, Beethoven, Mozart: Angela Hewitt (piano), Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra / András Keller (conductor). Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 12.6.2022. (GT)

András Keller conducts Concerto Budapest (c) Andrea Felvegi

Barrie Kosky’s intriguing double bill of Purcell and Bartók in Frankfurt

13/06/202213/06/2022 by Mark Berry

Germany Purcell, Bartók: Soloists, Frankfurt Opera Chorus (chorus director: Tilman Michael), Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester / Benjamin Reiners (conductor). Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, 5.6.2022. (MB)

Salonen and Sellars effectively link Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex with Symphony of Psalms

12/06/2022 by Harvey Steiman

United States Stravinsky, Oedipus Rex, Symphony of Psalms: Soloists, San Francisco Symphony Chorus and Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 11.6.2022. (HS)

(l-r) Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts, Sean Pannikar (Oedipus), Willard White (Creon), Lauren Jenkins and Breezy Leigh (Oedipus’s daughters) (c) Kristen Loken

Ryan Bancroft and BBC NOW bring their season to a barnstorming conclusion

13/06/202212/06/2022 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United Kingdom Walton, Shostakovich: Steven Isserlis (cello), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Ryan Bancroft (conductor). St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 9.06.2022. (PCG)

Mozart’s Ascanio in Alba in Bourgogne – magnifique!

15/06/202212/06/2022 by Laurence Vittes

France Mozart, Ascanio in Alba: Soloists, Choruses of Cosne-sure-Loire, Decize, Château-Chinon, Prémery and Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier (chorus directors: Stéphane Ruelle, Pauline Touma), Ensemble musical de Prémery / Laurent Noguès (conductor), L’Église Saint Pierre, Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, 6.6.2022. (LV)

Jean-Paul Denizon narrating Mozart’s *Ascanio in Alba* © Dan Krajcman

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