Festival 2025

The Three Choirs Festival’s revival of a long-neglected oratorio by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival [4] – Coleridge-Taylor: Rebecca Hardwick (soprano), Aoife Miskelly (soprano), Amy Holyland (mezzo-soprano), Martha McLorinan (mezzo-soprano). Mark LeBrocq (tenor), David Stout (baritone), Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Samuel Hudson (conductor). Hereford Cathedral, 31.7.2025. (JQ)

Baritone David Stout © Dale Hodgetts

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No winners, only triumphs at Verão Clássico TalentFest

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PortugalPortugal Verão Clássico Festival 2025 [3] – TalentFest Concerts I–III: 50plus players (violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, voice). Centro Cultural de Belém, Sala Luís de Freitas Branco, Lisbon, 24, 25 & 26.7.2025. (LV)

Matteo Fabi playing Kodály at Verão Clássico 2025 Talent Fest © Andreia Carvalho

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A marvellous concert of Bliss and Howells at the Three Choirs Festival

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival 2025 [3] – Howells, Bliss: Rebecca Hardwick (soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Michael Bell (tenor), Malachy Frame (baritone), Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Adrian Partington (conductor). Hereford Cathedral 30.7.2025. (JQ)

Soprano Rebecca Hardwick, conductor Adrian Partington and tenor Michael Bell in Hymnus Paradisi © James O’Driscoll

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Heyward and Gillam shine in debuts at Cleveland’s Blossom Festival

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United StatesUnited States Blossom Music Festival 2025 [3]: Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone), Cleveland Orchestra / Jonathon Heyward (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, 26.7.2025. (MSJ)

Jonathon Heyward conducts the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Music Festival © Kevin Libal/TCO

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Pastéis, passion and the ‘Trout’: Verão Clássico’s Schubert Fest in Lisbon

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PortugalPortugal Verão Clássico Festival 2025 [2] – Schubert Fest: Anna Samuil (soprano), Stephan Picard, Lena Neudauer (violins), Muriel Razavi (viola), Gary Hoffman (cello), Rui Pedro Rodrigues (double bass), Milana Chernyavska, Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro (piano). Centro Cultural de Belém, Pequeno Auditório, Lisbon, 26.7.2025. (LV)

Anna Samuil singing Schubert with Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro at the piano © Andreia Carvalh

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Ryan Wigglesworth leads a strangely disappointing Birtwistle and Beethoven Prom

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC Proms 2025 [7] – Birtwistle and Beethoven: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 28.7.2025. (MB)

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra © BBC/Mark Allan

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