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Three Choirs Festival 2011 (2) – A dignified and moving commemoration of 9/11

14/08/201109/08/2011 by Stan

United KingdomUnited 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)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags John Quinn, Worcester

Notes from the 2011 Salzburg Festival ( 4 ) – Grigory Sokolov

11/08/202007/08/2011 by Jens F. Laurson

AustriaAustria Bach, Schumann: Grigori Sokolov (piano), Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 5.8.2011. (JFL)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Jens F. Laurson, Salzburg

A variable Dream of Gerontius opens the 2011 Three Choirs Festival

14/08/201107/08/2011 by Stan

United KingdomUnited 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)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags John Quinn, Worcester

Prom 29 – More style than substance in Dudamel’s Mahler

14/08/201107/08/2011 by Stan

United KingdomUnited 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)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published Tags Jim Pritchard, London

Musica Deo Sacra – Russian Church Music in an Anglican Context

14/08/201107/08/2011 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Rachmaninov, Vespers:  Musica Deo Sacra, Tewkesbury Abbey, 5.8.2011 (RJ)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Roger Jones, Tewkesbury

Prom 26 – Donald Runnicles leads an enthralling Daphnis et Chloé

03/02/201406/08/2011 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Debussy, Dutilleux and Ravel: Lynn Harrell (cello), Edinburgh Festival Chorus, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, 3.8.2011 (CG)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published Tags Christopher Gunning, London

Bodies that Sing: An Imaginative Re-creation of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

14/08/201106/08/2011 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Mostly Mozart Festival (2):Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer (Conductor and Director), RoseTheater, Lincoln Center, New York, 4.8.2011 (SSM)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags New York, Stan Metzger

Notes from the 2011 Salzburg Festival ( 2 ) – Preview

22/07/202105/08/2011 by Jens F. Laurson

AustriaAustria Preview: Salzburg Festival,  5.8.2011 (JFL)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published Tags Jens F. Laurson, Salzburg
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