Festival 2024

Schubert and Gubaidulina open celestial windows at the Verão Classical Festival

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PortugalPortugal Verão Clássico Festival 2024 [2] – MasterFest Concert II: Stephan Picard, Eszter Haffner (violins), Miguel da Silva (viola), Patrick Demenga (cello), Janne Saksala (double bass), Geir Draugsvoll (accordion), Eldar Nebolsin, Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro (piano). Museu Nacional dos Coches, Lisbon, 27.7.2024. (LV)

Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro and Eldar Nebolsin playing Schubert © Andreia Carvalho

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Christian Thielemann leads a fine concert performance of Capriccio in Salzburg

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2024 [4] – R. Strauss, Capriccio: Soloists, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Christian Thielemann (conductor). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 26.7.2024. (MB)

Salzburg Festival’s concert performance of Capriccio © SF/Marco Borrelli

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The UK premiere of Snider’s Mass for the Endangered at the Three Choirs Festival

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival [3] – Biles-Liddell, Weir, Elgar, Snider: Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Samuel Hudson (conductor). Worcester Cathedral, 29.7.2024. (JQ)

Samuel Hudson conducts the Three Choirs Festival Chorus and the Philharmonia © Dale Hodgetts

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Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson’s new Bayreuth Tristan lacks coherence, dramatic cogency and better singing

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2024 [1] – Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Recorded live (directed by Michael Beyer) at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 25.7.2024. (JPr)

Bayreuther Festspiele 2024 – Tristan und Isolde Act III © Enrico Nawrath

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Takács Quartet in the premiere of an exceptional work by Gabriela Lena Frank in Boulder

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United StatesUnited States Colorado Music Festival 2024 [2] – Various: Takács Quartet (Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes [violins], Richard O’Neill [viola], András Fejér [cello]), Colorado Festival Orchestra / Peter Oundjian (director). Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder, Colorado, 19.7.2024. (DS)

Gabriela Lena Frank (left), Harumi Rhodes (center) and Peter Oundjian (right) during pre-concert talk © Geremy Kornreich

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Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC SSO: fine Brahms and Schoenberg, and Alice Coote’s transformative Mahler

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom PROM 9 – Brahms, Schoenberg, Mahler: Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 25.7.2024. (CK)

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC SSO © BBC/Andy Paradise

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The Three Choirs Festival Voices revive a neglected major work by Holst

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival [2] – Dearden, Weir, Respighi, Holst: Beth Taylor (mezzo-soprano), Three Choirs Festival Voices, Philharmonia Orchestra / Geraint Bowen (conductor) Worcester Cathedral 28.7.2024. (JQ)

Three Choirs Festival Voices © Dale Hodgetts

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