United Kingdom BBC Prom 66 – Bach, St Matthew Passion: Soloists, Berlin Radio Choir; Choristers of Wells and Winchester Cathedrals; Berliner Philharmoniker/Sir Simon Rattle. Royal Albert Hall, London, 6.9.2014 (CC)
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PROM 64:Berlin Philharmonic Dazzles Audience with Rachmaninov and Stravinsky
United Kingdom Prom 64 – Rachmaninov, Stravinsky: Berliner Philharmoniker/Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 5.9.2014 (CC)
PROM 63: Leading American Conductor Honoured at the Proms
United Kingdom Prom 63: Adams and Mahler: Timothy McAllister alto saxophone (Proms debut artist), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 4.9.2014. (JPr)
Bringing Schubert’s Vienna to Oxford (10th October – 1st November 2014)
United Kingdom Preview: Bringing Schubert’s Vienna to Oxford (10th October – 1st November 2014)
Eclectic Swedish Composer Who Likes to Give Pleasure: – B Tommy Andersson in Conversation with Simon Rees
Eclectic Swedish Composer Who Likes to Give Pleasure: – B Tommy Andersson in conversation with Simon Rees B Tommy Andersson becomes Composer-in-Association with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales from autumn 2014. A Swedish composer, whose initial ‘B’ stands for ‘Bengt’, Andersson has just turned 50, and has spent a great deal of his career … Read more
New Production of Le Nozze di Figaro by Finnish National Opera
FinlandMozart Le nozze di Figaro. Soloists, Finnish National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor). Finnish National Opera, Helsinki, 29.8.2014 (premiere) (GF)
Mostly Mozart (7): Zinman is Welcomed Back to the States After 19 Years as Conductor of Tonhalle in Zurich
United States Mostly Mozart Festival 7: Boyce, Mozart, Beethoven, Joshua Bell (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, David Zinman (conductor), Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, 19.8.2014 (SSM)
Prom Chamber Music (6): A Rainy Bank Holiday Monday Brightened by Proms Chamber Music
Proms Chamber Music 6: Mozart, Mahler, Strauss,Louis Schwizgebel (piano), Katarzyna Budnik-Gałązka (viola), Marcin Zdunik (cello), Tomasz Januchta (double bass), Royal String Quartet, Cadogan Hall, London, 25.8.14. (JPr)