Festival 2025 – Page 20 – Seen and Heard International

Longborough’s Pélleas et Mélisande uses audience imagination to tell the story and the music is terrific!

05/11/202530/06/2025 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2025 [3] – Debussy, Pélleas et Mélisande: Soloists, Longborough Festival Orchestra / Anthony Negus (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 28.6.2025. (CP)

Julian Close (Arkel) © Matthew Williams-Ellis

Istanbul’s Music Festival splendidly celebrates nature and Sufi tradition in Karademir’s ‘Strings of Love’

30/06/202529/06/2025 by Gregor Tassie

Turkey Istanbul Music Festival 2025 [1] – ‘Strings of Love’: Coşkun Karademir (lute, baglama), Derya Türkan (Istanbul kemenche), Ibrahim Babayev (lyre), Murat Süngü (cello), Burak Çakir (percussion). Sakip Sabanci Museum, Fistikli Terrace, Istanbul. 23.6.2025. (GT)

‘Strings of Love’ at the Istanbul Music Festival 2025

Unforgettable Thaxted recital: place, music, Chance and Carr in perfect congruence

27/06/202525/06/2025 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Thaxted Festival 2025 [2] – Love and Loss: Music for Countertenor & Lute: Songs by Dowland, Danyel, Rosseter, Campion, Purcell, Blow and Cynthia Harper. Alexander Chance (countertenor), Toby Carr (lute). Thaxted Parish Church, 22.6.2025. (CC)

Toby Carr (lute) and Alexander Chance (countertenor)

Garsington’s edgy recasting of Handel’s Rodelinda as a Gothic horror fantasy

20/06/2025 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2025 [3] – Handel, Rodelinda: Soloists, The English Concert / Peter Whelan (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 19.6.2025. (CR)

RCMF 2025: An epic week comes to an end

17/06/2025 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Romsey Chamber Music Festival 2025 [4] – Various: Romsey URC Church, 7-8.6.2025. (CK)

Britten and Shostakovich from Hadelich, Sanderling and the Dresden Phil proves great programming

18/06/202516/06/2025 by Colin Clarke

Germany Dresden Music Festival [2] – Britten, Shostakovich: Augustin Hadelich (violin), Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra / Michael Sanderling (conductor). Kulturpalast Dresden, 13.6.2025. (CC)

Instructional, yet totally musically satisfying Heine settings from Appl and Baillieu in Dresden

16/06/202515/06/2025 by Colin Clarke

Germany Dresden Music Festival 2025 [1] – Heinrich Heine. Paris. Musik: Benjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano), Barbara Auer and Jens Harzer (narrators), Helmut Butzmann (concept). Palais im Grossen Garten, Dresden, Germany, 12.6.2025. (CC)

More kudos for Laura Rickard and her RCMF 2025 concert planning

14/06/2025 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Romsey Chamber Music Festival 2025 [3] – Various: Romsey URC Church, 6.6.2025. (CK)

Junyan Chen (piano), Emma Roijackers (violin), Lydia Hillerudh (cello) and Gerbrich Meijer (clarinet) © Chen

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