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New Zealand Richard Strauss,
Der Rosenkavalier: Soloists, Opera in a Days Bay Garden Company, Opera in a Days Bay Garden Orchestra (Leader: Blythe Press) / Michaerl Vintin (conductor), Wellesley College Hall, Days Bay, Wellington
, 24.8.2014 (PM)
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)
United Kingdom Prom 64 – Rachmaninov, Stravinsky: Berliner Philharmoniker/Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 5.9.2014 (CC)
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)
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 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
FinlandMozart Le nozze di Figaro. Soloists, Finnish National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor). Finnish National Opera, Helsinki, 29.8.2014 (premiere) (GF)
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)