United Kingdom Three Choirs Festival (1) – Berlioz, Ravel, Schumann, Wolf, Mahler, Gurney, Warlock: James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano), St Barnabas Church, Tuffley, Gloucester, 23.7.2016. (JQ)
John Quinn
Ex Cathedra’s Visionary Concert in Tewkesbury Abbey
United Kingdom Parry, Weir, Howells, MacMillan: Cheltenham Festival – Ex Cathedra, MacMillan Ensemble/Jeffrey Skidmore, Alexander Mason (organ), Tewkesbury Abbey, 13.7.2016. (JQ)
A Significant Howells Premiere in Gloucester
United Kingdom Cheltenham Music Festival, Vaughan Williams, Gurney, Britten, Howells,. Guy Johnston (cello): Nicholas Morton (baritone); Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra/Martin André (conductor); Mark Biggins (assistant conductor). Gloucester Cathedral, 9.7.2016. (JQ)
A Deeply Moving Personal Commemoration of the Great War
United Kingdom Cheltenham Festival – From your ever-loving son, Jack: Joshua Ellicott (tenor), Simon Lepper (piano), Cheltenham Ladies College, Parabola Arts Centre, 7.7.2016. (JQ)
Pure Gold from Nicola Benedetti in Cheltenham
United Kingdom Cheltenham Music Festival: Elgar, Korngold, Rachmaninov – Nicola Benedetti (violin): Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko (conductor), Cheltenham Town Hall, 6.7.2016. (JQ)
The Premiere of Ian Venables’ Important, Eloquent New Song Cycle
United Kingdom Venables, Vaughan Williams, Schumann, Gurney, Finzi, Quilter, Britten: Nick Pritchard (tenor); Louise Williams (viola); Benjamin Frith (piano), Perrins Hall, The Royal Grammar School, Worcester, 30.6.2016 (JQ)
Lahav Shani and the CBSO in a Splendid Tribute to Shakespeare
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Bernstein, Prokofiev: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Lahav Shani (conductor), Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 20.4.2016. (JQ)
Nicholas Collon Joins the List of Champions for Mahler’s Tenth Symphony
United Kingdom Webern, Brahms, Mahler: CBSO Youth Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Collon (conductor), Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 31.3.2016 (JQ)