Aspen Music Festival (3): Gil Shaham plays Bartók, Joyce Yang plays Beethoven, Takács plays Mozart, Bartók, Mendlessohn. 11.7.2011 (HS)
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Some Notable Premieres at this year’s Cheltenham Music Festival
Cheltenham Music Festival 2011 : Premieres by Venables, Bray, Butler, Sierra, Berkeley, Phibbs, Kendall, Higgins, Rushton. (RJ)
Aspen Music Festival 2011: Shaham, Feltsman, Hamelin and LaBelle plus Others Who Cannot Be Named
Aspen Music Festival (2) : Gil Shaham (violin), Vladimir Feltsman (piano), Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Dominique LaBelle (soprano), Anonymous 4. Harris Hall, Benedict Music Tent, 5-7.7.2011 (HS)
Opera Holland Park’s La rondine is rather a mixed bag
United Kingdom Puccini, La rondine: (New production by Tom Hawkes): Soloists and Chorus of Opera Holland Park, City of London Sinfonia, Conductor: Peter Selwyn. Holland Park, London, 7.7.2011. (JPr)
Sir Mark Elder’s deputy delivers an appealing Promenade Concert
Bizet, Saint –Saëns, Ravel, Prokofiev: Sir Mark Elder (narrator), Hallé Orchestra/Andrew Gourlay (conductor), Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 9.7.2011 (MC)
Substitute Soloist and Conductor disappoint at the Royal Festival Hall
Berlioz, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky: Nikolai Demidenko (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra/Christian Vasquez (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London, 30.6.2011 (GD)
BBC Young Generation Artist Piemontese impresses with Debussy and Schumann
City of London Festival 2011 – Chopin, Debussy, and Schumann: Francesco Piemontesi (piano). St Mary Abchurch, London, 6.7.2011 (MB)
Mumbles Symphony Orchestra begins to make its mark
Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Kodaly, Glazunov, Bizet: Mumbles Symphony Orchestra, All Saints’ Church, Oystermouth, Kristine Balanas (violin), David John,(conductor), 2.7.2011 (NHR)