Germany Mahler Festival [3]: Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer (conductor). Gewandhaus Grosser Saal, 23.5.2023. (GT)
Spellbinding Mahler Ninth from the Budapest Festival Orchestra at Leipzig’s Mahler Festival
Festival 2023
Excellent singers, conductor and orchestra makes Götterdämmerung Longborough’s best Wagner yet
United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera – Götterdämmerung: Soloists, Longborough Community Chorus, Festival Chorus and Opera Orchestra / Anthony Negus (conductor). Longborough Festival Opera, Moreton-in-Marsh, 31.5.2023. (JPr)
Despite an ailing Rigoletto there is much to relish at Opera Holland Park
United Kingdom Opera Holland Park 2023 [1] – Verdi, Rigoletto: Soloists, Opera Holland Park Chorus, City of London Sinfonia / Lee Reynolds (conductor). Opera Holland Park, London, 1.6.2023. (CC)
Ian Venables’ masterly and moving Requiem performed with conviction at the Elgar Festival
United Kingdom Elgar Festival 2023 – Still, Elgar, Michael Berkeley, Venables: Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir, St Cecilia Singers, Jonathan Hope (organ), English Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Woods and Stephen Shellard (conductors). Great Malvern Priory, Malvern, 1.6.2023. (JQ)
Dresden triumphs: Blomstedt’s Mendelssohn and the Philharmonie’s Ligeti, Prokofiev and Stravinsky
Dresden Music Festival 2023 (Dresdner Musikfestspiele 2023) (MC) This year the Dresden Music Festival (Dresdner Musikfestspiele) is dedicated to the areas of tension in music and society under the motto BLACKANDWHITE (SCHWARZWEISS). Festival artistic director Jan Vogler had the idea for the motto, ‘whilst reading Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel War and Peace. The great writer … Read more
Memorable Mahler Seventh by Daniel Harding and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Germany Mahler Festival [2]: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Daniel Harding (conductor). Gewandhaus Grosser Saal, Leipzig, 22.5.2023. (GT)
Garsington’s charming and fresh interpretation of Rossini’s well-loved Il barbiere di Siviglia
United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2023 [1] – Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia: Soloists, Garsington Opera Chorus, The English Concert / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 31.5.2023. (CR)
Mahler’s Tenth is given an outstanding performance by the CBSO in Leipzig
Germany Mahler Festival [1]: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/ Robert Trevino (conductor), Gewandhaus Grosser Saal, Leipzig, 21.5.2023. (GT)
