Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 [4] – Various venues, 25.8.2017. (SRT)
Elsa Jean McTaggart, Surgeon Hall
WHYTE, Fairich: Live, Scottish Storytelling Centre
Concerto a tempo d’umore, Assembly Rooms
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Duelling Orchestras: Gergiev conducts Mariinsky and RSNO in 21st-Century Symphonic Fare
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2017 [11] – Prokofiev, Britten, Shostakovich: Mariinsky Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Valery Gergiev (conductor), Usher Hall, 23.8.2017. (SRT)
Rowland-Jones’ Laughter and Time Premieres at the North Norfolk Music Festival
United Kingdom North Norfolk Music Festival – Brahms, Schumann, Rowland-Jones, Copland: Marianne Cornetti (mezzo soprano), Simon Rowland-Jones (viola), Gary Matthewman (piano), Church of Our Lady St Mary, South Creake, 19.8.2017. (RP)
Sakari Oramo’s Enthusiastic Advocacy of Elgar’s “Third Symphony”
United Kingdom 2017 BBC PROMS 51 – Sibelius, Saint-Saëns and Elgar: Javier Perianes (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Sakari Oramo (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 22.8.2017. (AS)
The Enchanting Voice of Christiane Karg at the Proms
United Kingdom PCM 6, 2017 BBC Proms at Cadogan Hall – Duparc, Guridi, Ravel, Koechlin, Poulenc: Christiane Karg (soprano); Malcolm Martineau (piano). Cadogan Hall, London, 21.8.2017. (CC)
Mirga Gražinyté-Tyla Tends to Rush her Fences at the Proms
United Kingdom 2017 BBC PROMS 50 – Beethoven, Stravinsky and Gerald Barry: Leila Josefowicz (violin), Allan Clayton (narrator/tenor), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Mirga Gražinyté-Tyla (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 21.8.2017. (AS)
with CBSO & Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (conductor) (c) BBC/Chris Chistodoulou
A Brilliant – and Brilliantly Questioning – Recital by Maurizio Pollini
Austria Salzburg Festival [7] – Chopin and Debussy: Maurizio Pollini (piano). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 17.8.2017. (MB)
‘Full-blooded Romanticism’: Sir Mark Elder Leads Hallé in Sensational-Sounding Faust
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2017 [10] – Berlioz, La Damnation de Faust: Edinburgh Festival Chorus (dir. Christoper Bell), NYCoS National Girls Choir (dir. Christopher Bell), Gentlemen of the Hallé Choir (dir. Matthew Hamilton), Hallé, Sir Mark Elder (conductor), Usher Hall, 20.8.2017. (SRT)