United Kingdom Three Choirs Festival 4: Roderick Williams (baritone), Susie Allan (piano), Shirehall, Hereford, 26.7.2012 (JQ)
Concert Reviews
The complete list of posted concert reviews
Prom 16:Hugh Wood’s Piano Concerto and an Evocative La Mer
United Kingdom Prom 16: Elgar, Hugh Wood, Ravel, and Debussy: Joanna MacGregor (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 26.7.2012 (CG)
A Splendid Three Choirs Pilgrimage to Canterbury
United Kingdom Three Choirs Festival 3: Susan Gritton (soprano), Alan Oke (tenor), Simon Bailey (bass-baritone), Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins (conductor). Hereford Cathedral. 25.7.2012. (JQ)
Prom 13: Barenboim’s Beethoven and Boulez Cycle Reaches its Penultimate Stage.
United Kingdom Prom 13: Beethoven and Boulez:Michael Barenboim (violin), Gilbert Nouno (IRCAM computer music designer) Jérémie Henrot (IRCAM sound engineer), West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 23.7.2012 (CG)
A Deeply Satisfying and Moving St. John Passion at Three Choirs Festival.
United Kingdom Three Choirs Festival 2. Hereford Cathedral, 23.7.2012 (JQ)
Brahms Quintet Spotlights Olympic Festival Director
United States Wolf, Beethoven, and Brahms: Charles Weatherbee and John Ewing (violins); Korine Fujiwara and Alan Iglitzin (violas); David Hardy (cello); Olympic Music Festival, Quilcene, WA, 21.7.2012 (BJ)
Summer of Discontent in San Francisco
United States Shostakovich, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven: Karen Gomyo (violin), Gilles Vonsattel (piano), San Francisco Symphony, Michael Francis (conductor), Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA, 13/14.7.2012 (WA)
I Hate Music
Sweden I Hate Music. Soloists, Mårten Landström (piano). Vattnäs Concert Barn, Vattnäs, Dalecarlia. Sweden. 18.7.2012 (GF)