Festival 2023

In Dresden: Till Brönner’s contemporary groove and virtuosic percussionist Martin Grubinger

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GermanyGermany Dresden Music Festival 2023 [11] – 5.6.2023, Kulturpalast, Dresden: Till Brönner and Band (Till Brönner [trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals], Olaf Polziehn [piano], Christian von Kaphengst [double bass, bass guitar, keyboard], Bruno Müller [guitar], David ‘Fingers’ Haynes [drums], Jan Miserre [keyboards] and Mark Wyand [saxophone])

Till Brönner and Band © Oliver Killig

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Così fan tutte at The Grange Festival: fine, probing and beautifully sung

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom The Grange Festival 2023 – Mozart, Così fan tutte: Soloists, The Grange Festival Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Kirill Karabits (conductor). The Grange, Alresford, Hampshire, 10.6.2023. (CK)

Samantha Clarke (Fiordiligi), Nicholas Lester (Guglielmo), Kitty Whately (Dorabella), Alessandro Fisher (Ferrando) © Craig Fuller

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Mikhail Pletnev, Respighi and the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini score at the Dresden Music Festival

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GermanyGermany Dresden Music Festival 2023 [10] – 6.9.2023, Kulturpalast, Dresden: Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini / Omer Meir Wellber (conductor). (LV)

Omer Meir Wellber conducts the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini © Oliver Killig

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Amitié: friendship and camaraderie the keynotes of Romsey’s joyous Chamber Music Festival

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Various, Romsey Chamber Music Festival 2023: Laura Rickard, Luke Hsu, Emma Roijackers (violin), Coby Mendez, Sofia Silva Sousa, Sào Soulez Larivière (viola), Rainer Crosett, Lydia Hillerudh (cello), Sergio Bucheli (lute), Ziteng Fan (piano), Ensemble Renard (Ellie Blamires [flute], Francesca Cox [oboe], Holly Isherwood [clarinet], Patrick Bolton [bassoon], George Strivens [horn]). Romsey Abbey, Romsey United Reformed Church, Romsey Town Hall 30.5 – 4.6.2023. (CK)

Romsey Chamber Music Festival 2023 © Terrence Jamieson

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Laurence Equilbey’s Insula Orchestra gives a brilliant historically informed concert at Dresden’s Frauenkirche

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GermanyGermany Dresden Music Festival [5]– Mozart: Pierre Génisson (clarinet), Insula Orchestra / Laurence Equilbey (conductor), Frauenkirche, Dresden, 24.5.2023. (GT)

Conductor Laurence Equilbey and clarinettist Pierre Génisson © Oliver Killig

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The strong cast brings the more consistent personality and character to Garsington’s pared down Mitridate

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Garsington Opera 2023 [2] – Mozart, Mitridate, re di Ponto: Soloists, The English Concert / Clemens Schuldt (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 3.6.2023. (CR)

Iestyn Davies (Farnace) and Soraya Mafi (Ismene) © Julian Guidera

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In Dresden: Nils Landgren’s R&B, funk and jazz and David Garrett’s miniatures, lollipops and encores

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GermanyGermany Dresden Music Festival 2023 [3] – 29.5.2023, Semperoper, Dresden: ‘Nils Landgren & Friends’: Nils Landgren (trombone, vocals), Viktoria Tolstoy (vocals), Ida Sand (vocals, keyboard), Joel Lyssarides (piano), Simon Oslender (Hammond organ), Wolfgang Haffner (drummer), Thomas Stieger (bass). (MC)

(l-r) Ida Sand, Nils Landgren, Wolfgang Haffner, Viktoria Tolstoy and Thomas Stieger © Oliver Killig

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