Month: April 2025

Mark Chambers bids a stylish farewell to Sestina Music with a celebration of the Concerts Spirituel

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom De Lalande, Corelli – Concert Spirituel: Sestina Music / Mark Chambers (Director), Fisherwick Presbyterian Church, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 25.4.2025. (RB)

Sestina Music’s Concert Spirituel at Fisherwick Presbyterian Church © Frederike Gerstner

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Michael Tilson Thomas’s 80th birthday concert favors delights over tearful goodbyes

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United StatesUnited States Various: Sasha Cooke, Frederica von Stade (mezzo-sopranos), Jessica Voss (vocalist), Ben Jones (tenor), San Francisco Symphony Chorus (director:  Jenny Wong), San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas, Teddy Abrams, Edwin Outwater (conductors). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 26.4.2025. (HS)

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts and Edwin Outwater turns pages © Christopher M. Howard

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Season 2025-26 in Bremen and Bremerhaven

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All-time favourites, comedy and operetta inform the choices for music theatre in Theater Bremen’s 2025-26 season The press conference to announce the 2025/26 season for theatre, music theatre, dance and youth theatre at Theater Bremen (info here) was dedicated to the memory of Michael Börgerding, the company’s former artistic director who passed away in January … Read more

Mahler 8 at the Royal Festival Hall fails to overwhelm because of video and other distractions

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mahler: Soloists, Tiffin Boys’ Choir (director: James Day), London Philharmonic Choir (artistic director: Neville Creed), London Symphony Chorus (chorus director: Mariana Rosas), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London, 26.4.2025. (JR)

Edward Gardner conducts Mahler’s Eighth Symphony at the Royal Festival Hall © Mark Allan/LPO

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