Month: July 2024

Two concertos are the highlights of the Tanglewood Festival’s second weekend

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United StatesUnited States Tanglewood Festival 2024 [3] – Various: Soloists, Boston Symphony Orchestra / Andris Nelsons (conductor). Koussevitzky Shed, Lenox, Massachusetts, 13 and 14.7.2024. (ES-S)

Augustin Hadelich performs Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No.2 at Tanglewood © Hilary Scott

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Hindoyan makes his Cleveland debut in an engaging Russian program at Blossom

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United StatesUnited States Blossom Festival 2024 [2] – Borodin, Arutiunian, Rachmaninoff: Michael Sachs (trumpet), Cleveland Orchestra Chorus (chorus director: Lisa Wong), Cleveland Orchestra / Domingo Hindoyan (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 13.7.2024. (MSJ)

Michael Sachs and the Cleveland Orchestra © Roger Mastroianni/CO

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Rameau’s lost Samson is evidently a labour not only of love but also of conviction for all

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FranceFrance Festival d’Aix-en-Provence [5] – Rameau, Samson: Soloists, Pygmalion / Raphaël Pichon (conductor). Théâtre de l’Archevêché, Aix-en-Provence, 12.7.2024. (MB)

Samson at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2024 © Monika Rittershaus

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Hail Fellows, well played: Youthful Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra comes of age in Shostakovich’s Fifth

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United StatesUnited States Tanglewood Festival 2024 [2] – Dvořák, Coleridge-Taylor and Shostakovich: Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra / Ross Jamie Collins, Na’zir McFadden, Andris Nelsons (conductors). Koussevitsky Music Shed. Lenox, 8.7.2024. (CSa)

Na’zir McFadden conducts the TMCO © Hilary Scott / BSO

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