United Kingdom Lammermuir Festival (4): Rossini, Menotti, Dvořák: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Grams (conductor), Jennifer Koh (violin). St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington (Scotland). 22.09.2011 (LV)
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Virtuosity Bodes Well for Start of New Chicago Symphony Season
United States Rota, Ibert, Tchaikovsky: Matthieu Dufour (flute), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti (music director), Symphony Hall, Symphony Center, Chicago. 23.9.2011. (JLZ)
Lammermuir Festival (5): Alison Balsom performs and the Scots go wild
United Kingdom Lammermuir Festival (5): Handel, Vivaldi, MacMillan, Purcell, Albinoni: Alison Balsom (trumpet), The Scottish Ensemble, Jonathan Morton (artistic director and leader). St Michael’s Kirk, Inveresk, Musselburgh (Scotland). 23.09.2011 (LV)
More ‘Music for People’ at the Purcell Room
United Kingdom Endymion, EXAUDI: James Weeks (conductor), Purcell Room, London, 21.09.2011 (CG)
Lully’s Atys: Brilliant Production of Opera Where Drama Outshines Music
United States Jean-Baptiste Lully, Atys: Soloists, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor). Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York 20.9.2011 (SSM)
Evelino Pidò invokes the heavenly and the hellish in Gounod’s Faust
United Kingdom Gounod, Faust: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Evelino Pidò (conductor). 18.9.2011 (CC)
New York Philharmonic Opening Night:Varied Program but Missing That One Frisson
United States New York Philharmonic Opening Night: Deborah Voigt (soprano), Alan Gilbert (conductor), Avery Fisher Hall, New York City. 21.9.2011 (BH)
Ever-youthful Sylvie Guillem dances with fluency and emotional awareness
United Kingdom Sylvie Guillem, 6000 miles away: Sylvie Guillem and dancers in choreography by William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián and Mats Ek. Sadler’s Wells, London, 22.9.11. (JPr)