Switzerland Lucerne Festival [2] – Mahler: Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly (conductor), Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern, Lucerne, 24.8.2019. (JR)
Meticulous Mahler from Chailly and the Remarkable Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Festival 2019
Very Pleasant Programme in a Haven of Musical Peace on the Fringe
United Kingdom Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 [4] – Aguado, Ferries: Stuart Murray-Mitchell (tenor), Gordon Ferries (guitar), St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh, 24.8.2019. (SRT)
Fine Cast Can’t Overcome a Dreadful Salzburg Production of Médée
Austria Salzburg Festival [7] – Cherubini, Médée: Soloists, Vienna State Opera Chorus (chorus master: Ernst Raffelsberger), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 19.8.2019. (MB)
Magnificent Bruckner from the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Andris Nelsons at the Proms
United Kingdom BBC PROM 47 – Bach and Bruckner: Michael Schönheit (organ), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Andris Nelsons (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 23.8.2019. (AS)
(c) Chris Christodoulou
A Persuasive Weinberg Symphony from Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the CBSO
United Kingdom BBC PROM 46 – Dorothy Howell, Elgar, Knussen, Weinberg: Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 22.8.2019. (CS)
Lucerne Festival [1]: Nézet-Séguin, Kavakos and the LFO Astound in Two Masterpieces
Switzerland Lucerne Festival [1] – Beethoven, Shostakovich: Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Lucerne (KKL), 22.9.2019. (JR)
Maurizio Pollini’s Intellectual and Pianistic Mastery at the Salzburg Festival
Austria Salzburg Festival [6] – Schoenberg, Nono, and Beethoven: Maurizio Pollini (piano), André Richard (sound direction). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 18.8.2019. (MB)
(c) Salzburger Festspiele/Marco Borrelli