[flag code=”us” size=”24″ text=”yes”] Aspen Music Festival (5): Soloists, Aspen Chamber Symphony and Festival Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan and James Gaffigan (conductors). 13.7.2014 (HS)
Concert Reviews
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Two Disparate Sonatas, Paired by a Master Pianist
United States Carter, Schubert: Nina Tichman (piano), International Keyboard Institute & Festival, Mannes College Concert Hall, New York City. 15.7.2014 (BH)
Tosca Overlooking the Atlantic not the Tiber
United Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Singers, Chorus and Orchestra of Surrey Opera / Jonathan Butcher (conductor), Minack Theatre, on the cliffs at Porthcurno, Cornwall, 14.7.2014. (RB).
A Great Classical Story Gets an Update at Buxton Festival.
United Kingdom Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo ed Eurydice (sung in Italian with English surtitles): Soloists, Buxton Festival Chorus. Northern Chamber Orchestra / Stuart Stratford. (conductor), Opera House, Buxton, 13.7.2014. (RJF)
The Novello Singers recapture all the romance of The Great British Musicals
United Kingdom The Great British Musicals: The Novello Singers, with soloists Louise Dearman and Jon Robyns, Hosted by Nicholas Parsons and Simon Callow (Saturday matinee only) with Ross Leadbeater (piano), St. James’s Theatre, London, 4-5.7.2014. (IL)
The Novello Singers include West End performers Rhidian Marc (Les Miserables), Annatt Bass (The Phantom of the Opera), Leigh Rhiannon Coggins (Pirates of Penzance), James Charlton (The Light Princess), Mira Ormala (Love Never Dies), Matthew Crowe (South Pacific), Jonathan Broad (West End Men), Lydia Jenkins (Iolanthe), Victoria Humphreys (The Bakewell Bakeoff), and Ben Irish (HMS Pinafore)]
Big Engines and Voices Get 2014 Buxton Festival Off to a Great Start.
United Kingdom Opening Gala Concert.: Susan Bullock (Soprano), Richard Berkeley-Steele (tenor), Kinder Children’s Choir of the High Peak (Choir mistress, Joyce Ellis MBE), Northern Chamber Orchestra / Stephen Barlow.(conductor), Opera House, Buxton, 11.7.2014 (RJF)
Cheltenham Music Festival: Festival Concludes on a High Note with Two Iconic Works
Blackford, Holst: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Savitri Singers / Martyn Brabbins (conductor), Town Hall, Cheltenham, 12.7.2014. (RJ)
Zinman Bids “Auf Wiedersehen” with “Resurrection” Symphony
Switzerland Mahler: Tonhalle Orchestra, Juliane Banse (soprano), Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Zürcher Sing-Akademie (chorus-master Tim Brown), David Zinman(conductor), Tonhalle, Zurich 11.7.2014 (JR)
