Mark Berry

Unforgettable performances of two key Boulez works at the Salzburg Festival

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2025 [4] – Debussy, Boulez, and Stravinsky: Tamara Stefanovich, Nenad Lečić (pianos), Jörg Widmann (clarinet), SWR Experimentalstudio, Michael Acker, Maurice Oeser (sound direction). Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, 20.8.2025. (MB)

Pianist Tamara Stefanovich © SF/Marco Borrelli

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An incisive celebration of the Boulez centenary at the Salzburg Festival

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2025 [3] – Nono, Boulez, and Stockhausen, ‘A Pierre’: Julie Brunet-Jailly (flute), Alphonse Cemin (piano), Augustin Muller (IRCAM electronics), Sylvain Cadars (IRCAM sound diffusion), Le Balcon / Maxime Pascal (conductor). Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, 19.8.2025. (MB)

Flautist Julie Brunet-Jailly © SF/Marco Borrelli

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Musically all-encompassing performance of Erwartung at the Salzburg Festival

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival [2] – Schoenberg, Webern, and Mahler, One Morning Turns Into an Eternity: Aušrinė Stundytė (soprano), Fleur Barron (contralto), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor). Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, 18.8.2025. (MB)

One Morning Turns Into an Eternity (contralto Fleur Barron) at the Salzburg Festival 2025 © Ruth Walz

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Ryan Wigglesworth leads a strangely disappointing Birtwistle and Beethoven Prom

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC Proms 2025 [7] – Birtwistle and Beethoven: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 28.7.2025. (MB)

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra © BBC/Mark Allan

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A fine and enjoyable Prom from Sakari Oramo and the BBC SO

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC Proms 2025 [4] – Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, Davis, and R. Strauss: Augustin Hadelich (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 24.7.2025. (MB)

Sakari Oromo conducts violinist Augustin Hadelich and the BBC SO in Mendelssohn © BBC/Mark Allan

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Henze’s Das Floss der Medusa provides an outstanding opening to the 2025 Salzburg Festival

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2025 [1] – Henze, Das Floss der Medusa: Soloists, Bavarian Radio Chorus (chorus director: Max Hanft), WRD Radio Chorus (chorus directors: Paul Krämer, Alexander Lüken), Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children’s Choir (chorus directors: Regina Sgier, Wolfgang Götz), ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Ingo Metzmacher (conductor). Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, 18.7.2025. (MB)

Kathrin Zukowski (La Mort) © SF/Marco Borrelli

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Outstanding concert by Stéphane Degout and Quatuor Diotima at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

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FranceFrance Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2025 [4] – Ligeti, Respighi, and Schoeck: Stéphane Degout (baritone), Quatuor Diotima (Yun-Peng Zhao, Léo Marillier [violins], Franck Chevalier [viola], Alexis Descharmes [cello]). Conservatoire Darius Milhaud, Aix-en-Provence, 10.7.2025. (MB)

Stéphane Degout (centre) and Quatuor Diotima

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