United States Mostly Mozart (1) Beethoven, Mozart: Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Jean-Efflam, Bavouzet (piano), Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Louis Langrée (conductor), Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, 30.7.2013 (SSM)
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Gloucester Commemorates Hindemith Anniversary with Das Marienleben
Hindemith: Das Marienleben: Der-Shin Hwang (soprano), James D’Angelo (piano), Three Choirs Festival, Blackfriars Priory, Gloucester, 31.7.2013 (RD) The composition of Paul Hindemith’s song cycle Das Marienleben exercised the composer for a quarter of a century. Perhaps the times influenced his take on it. He began it in 1923 in a cash-strapped but optimistic Weimar … Read more
A Heart-Warming Evening in the Gloucester Wigwam
United Kingdom Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Hye-Youn Lee (soprano), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Benedict Nelson (bass), Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Peter Nardone (conductor), Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Cathedral, 1.8.2013 (JQ)
From Spotted Snakes to Salad Days with Bowman and Bott
United Kingdom Purcell, Handel, Linley, Britten, Mendelssohn, Elgar, Gershwin et al: Catherine Bott (soprano), James Bowman (counter-tenor), Jonathan Cohen (piano), Three Choirs Festival, Blackfriars Priory, Gloucester, 2.8.2013 (RJ)
Good Balance between Orchestra and Singers in Princess Ida
United Kingdom Gilbert & Sullivan, Princess Ida: Peak Opera / Richard Baker (conductor), Ian Henderson (director), Buxton Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Opera House, Buxton, 31.7.2013 (RJW)
Karita Mattila In Concert In Buenos Aires
Argentina Brahms, Duparc, Puccini, Sibelius, Dvorák: Mozarteum Argentino. Karita Mattila (soprano), Martin Katz (piano) at Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 29.7.2013. (JSJ)
Colli Demonstrates Charm and Affability in Schumann
United Kingdom Schumann, Brahms: Federico Colli (piano), Oxford Philomusica / Marios Papadopoulos (conductor), Oxford Philomusica Piano Festival, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 1.8.2013
Sanctuary Ensemble Celebrate Lindisfarne Gospels Originator
United Kingdom Christian Forshaw, S S Wesley, Dowland, Vaughan Williams: Christian Forshaw and The Sanctuary Ensemble, Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Cathedral, 1.8.2013. (RJ)