Year: 2023

The Bach Choir are powerful and affecting in Brahms’s A German Requiem at the Royal Festival Hall

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Coleridge-Taylor, Beach, Brahms: Claire Rutter (soprano), Katherine Gregory (mezzo-soprano), Harry Jacques (tenor), Ross Ramgobin (bass), The Bach Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra / David Hill (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 2.11.2023. (JR)

David Hill conducting Ein deutsches Requiem with soloists Ross Ramgobin (bass), Claire Rutter (soprano), Katherine Gregory (mezzo-soprano) and Harry Jacques (tenor) © Andy Paradise

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Can the Swiss tango? Ástor Piazolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires in Geneva

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland Piazzolla, María de Buenos Aires: Soloists, Cercle Bach de Genève, Chorus and Orchestra of the Haute École de Musique de Genève / Facundo Agudin (conductor). Grand Théâtre de Genève, 27.10.2023. (ALL)

(front l-r) Raquel Camarinha, Inés Cuello, Melissa Vettore and Beatriz Sayad © Carole Parodi

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Opera stars shine in a slimmed-down Tucker Gala at Carnegie Hall

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United StatesUnited States Various, ‘The Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala 2023’: Angela Meade, Frederica Lombardi, Ailyn Pérez, Liv Redpath (soprano), Ben Bliss, Stephen Costello (tenor), Quinn Kelsey, Sean Michael Plumb (baritone), Soloman Howard (bass), Bryan Wagorn, Howard Watkins (piano). Carnegie Hall, New York, 29.10.2023. (RP)

Ailyn Pérez (soprano) and Bryan Wagorn (piano) © Dario Acosta

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Jerome Robbins evening at the Paris Opera Ballet: can it ever be better than this?

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FranceFrance Jerome Robbins: Paris Opera Ballet, Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris / Maria Seletskaja (conductor). Palais Garnier, Paris, 25.10.2023. (JO’D)

Jerome Robbins’s The Concert: Vessela Pelovska (piano), Hannah O’Neill and Pauline Verdusen © Julien Benhamou/OnP

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