United States Aspen Music Festival [2]: Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Colorado, 6-8.7.2021. (HS)
Chamber music covers a wide range in Aspen’s big tent
Festival 2021
Two forces to be reckoned with debut at Blossom: Florence Price and Michelle Cann
United States Blossom Music Festival [1], An American Celebration: Michelle Cann (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Brett Mitchell (conductor), Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 4.7.2021. (MSJ)
© Roger Mastroianni
The Aspen Music Festival is back live with a Beethoven-heavy weekend
United States Aspen Music Festival [1]: Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Colorado, 1-3.7.2021. (HS)
LIVE From London there is a sprinking of Stardust from VOCES8
United Kingdom LIVE From London Summer 2021 [1] – Stardust: VOCES8 (Andrea Haines, Molly Noon [sopranos], Kate Jeffries-Harries [alto], Barnaby Smith [countertenor], Blake Morgan, Euan Williamson [tenors], Christopher Moore [baritone], Jonathan Percy [bass]). VOCES8 Centre, London, livestreamed on 4.7.2021. (CC)
Glyndebourne’s Così fan tutte revival is a veritable triumph of organisation, performance and production
United Kingdom Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2021 – Mozart, Così fan tutte (Bärenreiter edition, ed. Ferguson / Rehm): Soloists, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Riccardo Minasi (conductor). Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes, East Sussex, 4.7.2021. (CC)
(c) Tristram Kenton
There is huge applause at Munich’s Tristan und Isolde for Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros and Kirill Petrenko
Germany Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Bavarian State Orchestra / Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Nationaltheater, Munich, 4.7.2021 (ALL)
Bright, clean and gorgeous playing from the Castalians at the East Neuk Festival 2021
United Kingdom East Neuk Festival 2021 – Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: Castalian Quartet (Sini Simonen, Daniel Roberts [violin], Charlotte Bonneton [viola], Christopher Graves [cello]). The Bowhouse, St Monans, Fife, 4.7.2021. (SRT)
Robin Ticciati and London Philharmonic Orchestra bring Vaughan Williams and Mahler to the idyllic South Down
United Kingdom Vaughan Williams, Mahler – London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Rites of Passage: Sally Matthews (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Robin Ticciati (conductor). Filmed 15.6.2021 in the Glyndebourne Opera House (by Maestro Broadcasting and directed by Dominic Best) and available on Marquee TV from 2.7.2021. (JPr)
