United Kingdom English Exiles – Peter Philips, Richard Dering, John Bull: Royal Holloway College Chapel Choir, English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Rupert Gough (conductor & organ), Tewkesbury Abbey, 8.8.2011. (RJ)
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Heritage Opera woos Jane Austen fans with Jonathan Dove’s ‘Mansfield Park’
United Kingdom Jonathan Dove, Mansfield Park: Chamber opera in two acts, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen with libretto by Alasdair Middleton.Heritage Opera, Ashton Hall, Lancaster Town Hall, Lancashire. 5. 8.2011 (MC)
Lincoln Center Festival 2011 – Bruckner (R)evolution
United States Lincoln Center Festival 2011 – Bruckner (R)evolution : Leila Josefowicz (violin), Franz Welser-Möst (conductor), The Cleveland Orchestra. Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, 13-17.7.2011 (BH)
Three Choirs Festival 2011 (2) – A dignified and moving commemoration of 9/11
United Kingdom Barber, John Adams. Mahler, Mozart: Julia Doyle (soprano), Clare McCaldin (mezzo-soprano), Simon Wall (tenor), Robert Macdonald (bass), Festival Chorus, Choristers of the Three Cathedral Choirs, Philharmonia Orchestra, Adrian Partington. Worcester Cathedral. 7.8. 2011 (JQ)
A Björling Centenary Memorial at Opera på Skäret
Sweden Jussi Björling in Memoriam. Yana Kleyn and Sandra Lopez, soprano, Kristian Benedikt and Stuart Neill, tenor. The Opera på Skäret Orchestra, Bergslagens Musikdramatiska kör/Marcello Mottadelli and Erik Jakobsson at Opera på Skäret, Kopparberg, Sweden, 5.8.2011 (GF)
A variable Dream of Gerontius opens the 2011 Three Choirs Festival
United Kingdom Three Choirs Festival 2011 (1) – Elgar: Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), John Graham-Hall (tenor), Alan Opie (baritone), Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Adrian Lucas. Worcester Cathedral. 6.8.2011 (JQ)
Prom 29 – More style than substance in Dudamel’s Mahler
United Kingdom Mahler, Symphony No.2 ‘Resurrection’: Miah Persson (soprano), Anna Larsson (mezzo), National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel. Royal Albert Hall, London, 5.8.2011. (JPr)
Musica Deo Sacra – Russian Church Music in an Anglican Context
United Kingdom Rachmaninov, Vespers: Musica Deo Sacra, Tewkesbury Abbey, 5.8.2011 (RJ)