United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2022 [3] – Mendelssohn, Martin, Ešenvalds, Harris, Vaughan Williams, Ore, Byss-Kalle: Laura Samuel (violin), BBC Singers / Sofi Jeannin (conductor). Queen’s Hall, 9.8.2022 (SRT)
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Glorious Grieg and disappointing Schmidt at Cleveland’s Blossom Music Festival
United States Blossom Music Festival 2022 [3] – Grieg, Schmidt: Cédric Tiberghien (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Jonathan Berman (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 6.8.2022. (MSJ)
Christian Blackshaw’s recital at the Lerici Music Festival will linger long in the memory
Italy Lerici Music Festival – Schubert, Schumann: Christian Blackshaw (piano). Teatro All’aperto della Rotonda Vassallo, Lerici, Italy, 5.8.2022. (CC)
Ronald Brautigam gets the Edinburgh International Festival 2022 at Queen’s Hall underway
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2022 [1] – Fanny Mendelssohn, Schumann, Schubert: Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano), Esther Hoppe (violin), Christian Poltéra (cello). Queen’s Hall, 8.8.2022. (SRT)
‘Prague Panoramas’: a new symphony by Julian Anderson at the Proms
United Kingdom BBC Proms 2022 [14], Prom 26 – Anderson, Martinů, Rachmaninov: Katia & Marielle Labèque (pianos), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 5.8.2022. (CS)
Making the case for cultural freedom with their instruments, the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra at the Proms
United Kingdom BBC Proms 2022 [13], Prom 19a – Silvestrov, Chopin, Beethoven, Brahms: Anna Fedorova (piano), Liudmyla Monastyrska (soprano), Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra / Keri-Lynn Wilson (conductor). Recorded (directed by ) at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 31.7.2022. Available on BBC iPlayer. (JPr)
Marie-Eve Munger and Anthony Roth Costanzo are perfect together in Handel’s Theodora at Caramoor
United States Handel, Theodora: Soloists, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Trinity Baroque Orchestra / Avi Stein (conductor). Venetian Theater, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah, NY, 31.7.2022. (RP)
Music at Paxton: artists of an international reputation combine with emerging young performers
United Kingdom ‘Music at Paxton’ – Summer Festival of Chamber Music 2022: Paxton House, Paxton, Berwickshire, 22.7. to 31.7.2022. (MC)