SINCE 1999 A LIVE REVIEW SITE FOR OPERA, BALLET, CONCERTS, BROADCASTS, AND THEATRE
United Kingdom Tippett, Arnold, Gipps: Michael Collins (clarinet), BBC Philharmonic / Rumon Gamba (conductor). BBC Philharmonic Studio, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, 4.12.2019. (RBa)
United Kingdom Shostakovich, Elgar, Bax: Kristiana Ignatjeva (cello), Exeter Symphony Orchestra / Brian Northcott (conductor). United Reformed Church, Southernhay, Exeter, Devon, 30.11.2019. (RBa)
United Kingdom Malcolm Arnold, Stravinsky, Mahler: Thérèse Wincent (soprano), Todmorden Orchestra / Nicholas Concannon Hodges (conductor). Todmorden Town Hall, Calderdale, 16.11.2019. (RBa)
2019 AUTUMN ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL – AYSGARTH, NORTH YORKSHIRE
This year’s Northern complement to the Dorchester-on-Thames English Music Festival takes place once more in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales in St Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth, Leyburn DL8 3SR near the famous Falls. The programme over the weekend of 27-29 September 2019 is again confined (and ‘confined’ that is not really the word) to chamber music events.
United Kingdom Tim Benjamin’s The Fire of Olympus (or, On Sticking It To The Man): Soloists and Orchestra (harpsichord: Alex Robinson) of Radius Opera / Ellie Slorach (conductor). Burnley Mechanics, Manchester Road, Burnley, 14.9.2019 (RBa)
United Kingdom Stravinsky, R. Strauss, Rachmaninoff: Paula Sides (soprano), Todmorden Orchestra / Nicholas Concannon Hodges (conductor). Todmorden Town Hall, Calderdale, 29.6.2019. (RBa)
United Kingdom Carwithen, Hurd, Harty, Alwyn, Bridge, Bax: Kirstin Sharpin (soprano), Ealing Symphony Orchestra / John Gibbons (conductor). British Music Society 40th Anniversary Concert, St John’s Smith Square, London, 22.6.2019. (RBa)
United Kingdom Matthews, Alma Mahler, Janáček, Dvořák, Martinů: Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), BBC Philharmonic / Jac van Steen (conductor). BBC Philharmonic Studio, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, 19.6.2019. (RBa)
