Festival 2024

Outstanding account of Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet at the Clandeboye Festival

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Clandeboye Festival 2024 [1] – Schubert, R. Schumann: Barry Douglas (piano), Michael McHale (piano), Andrey Baranov, Michael D’Arcy (violins), Ed Creedon (viola), Arto Noras (cello), Clandeboye Festival, Clandeboye Estate, Northern Ireland, 17.8.2024. (RB)

Barry Douglas and Michael McHale © Michael Burch

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Britten’s harrowing, yet uplifting, War Requiem at the Proms will linger long in the memory

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom PROM 37 – Britten’s War Requiem, Op.66: Natalya Romaniw (soprano0, Allan Clayton (tenor), Will Liverman (baritone), Tiffin Boys’ Choir, BBC Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 17.8.2024. (KMcD)

Sir Antonio Pappano at the BBC Proms © BBC/Chris Christodoulou

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Spreading the joy with music new and old at the Sun Valley Music Festival

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United StatesUnited States Sun Valley Music Festival [2]: Sun Valley Pavilion, Sun Valley, Idaho, 13 & 14.8.2024. (RP)

Jeremy Constant (violin), Amos Yang (cello), John Wilson (pianist) and Stephanie Childress (conductor) in Beethoven’s ‘Triple’ Concerto © Nils Ribi/SVMF

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Flying the Flag at Tanglewood: Dudamel and his children’s orchestra celebrate Venezuela’s El Sistema

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United StatesUnited States Tanglewood Festival 2024 [12] – Adams, Estévez, Ginastera, Shostakovich: National Children’s Symphony of Venezuela / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor), Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, 8.8.2024. (CSa)

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the National Children’s Symphony of Venezuela at Tanglewood © Hilary Scott/BSO

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Francisco Coll’s new Cello Concerto has its UK premiere at a storytelling BBC SO Prom

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom PROM 38 – Dukas, Coll, Puccini, Stravinsky: Sol Gabetta (violoncello), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Tianyi Lu (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 18.8.2024. (AK)

Tianyi Lu conducts the BBC SO at the BBC Proms © BBC/Chris Christodoulou

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Exceptional music making in a rather static production of Bianca e Falliero in Pesaro

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ItalyItaly Rossini Opera Festival 2024 [1] – Rossini, Bianca e Falliero: Soloists, Coro del teatro ventidio basso, Orchestra sinfonica nazionale della RAI, Roberto Abbado (conductor). Auditorium Scavolini, Pesaro, 7.8.2024. (AB)

Rossini Opera Festival 2024’s Bianca e Falliero

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The Takács Quartet pack a mighty punch in Edinburgh, though there is a little too much Esfahani baroque

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2024 [9]: Takács Quartet (16.8), Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord, 17.8). Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 16 & 17.8.2024. (SRT)

The Takács Quartet in Queen’s Hall © Andrew Perry

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