United Kingdom Three Choirs Festival (8) – Okeover, Purcell, Handel, Greene, Bliss, Kodály, Vaughan Williams, Delius, Finzi and others: Vicki Field (soprano), Quentin Letts (narrator), Philip Vaughan (organist), Ensemble Sine Nomine/Sebastian Field (conductor), St Mary de Lode Church, Gloucester, 27.7.2016. (RJ)
Festival 2016
Vaughan Williams’s Deeply Eloquent and Moving Plea for Peace Still Resonates 80 Years Later
United Kingdom Three Choirs Festival (7) Vaughan Williams, Butterworth: Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay (violin); Johanne Ansell (soprano); Alex Ashworth (baritone); Three Choirs Festival Chorus; Philharmonia Orchestra/Geraint Bowen (conductor). Gloucester Cathedral, 26.7. 2016. (JQ)
Carducci Discern Link between Ravel and Howells
United Kingdom Three Choirs Festival (6) – Howells, Ravel, Schubert: Carducci Quartet [Matthew Denton, Michelle Fleming (violins), Eoin Schmidt-Martin (viola), Emma Denton (cello)]. St Barnabas’ Church, Tuffley, Gloucester, 26.7.2016. (RJ)
Stile Antico Explore How Secular Tunes Inspired Liturgical Music
United Kingdom Three Choirs Festival (5) – Anon, Dufay, Monteverdi/Coppini, Clemens non Papa, Josquin, Taverner, Morales. Gombert, Lassus: Stile Antico, Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Cathedral. 25.7.2016. (RJ)
Sir Willard White’s Resonant Elijah at the Three Choirs Festival
United Kingdom Three Choirs Festival (4) – Mendelssohn: Eleanor Dennis (soprano); Susan Bickley (contralto); Peter Auty (tenor); Sir Willard White (bass-baritone); Rupert O’Sullivan (Treble); Three Choirs Festival Chorus; Philharmonia Orchestra/Peter Nardone (conductor). Gloucester Cathedral, 25.7. 2016. (JQ)
The premiere of Philip Lancaster’s Challenging War Passion
Three Choirs Festival (3) Howells, Lancaster: Anna Gillingham (soprano); Juliet Curnow (mezzo-soprano); Peter Harris (tenor); James Geidt (baritone); St Cecilia Singers; Bristol Ensemble/Jonathan Hope (conductor). Cirencester Parish Church, 24.7.2016. (JQ)
Young Tenor Saves the Day at the Three Choirs Festival
United Kingdom Three Choirs Festival (2) Parry, Elgar: Clare Rutter (soprano); Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano); Magnus Walker (tenor); Ashley Riches (bass); Jonathan Hope (organ);Three Choirs Festival Chorus; Philharmonia Orchestra/Adrian Partington (conductor), Gloucester Cathedral, 23.7. 2016. (JQ)

Aspen (6): Mixed Results from the Emerson Quartet, but Abduraimov Is a Pianist to Reckon With
United States Haydn, Berg, Brahms, Purcell, Berlioz, Beethoven, Bellini, Thomas, Chopin, Schubert, Prokofiev: Soloists, Emerson String Quartet, Behzod Abduraimov (piano), Harris Hall, Aspen, Colorado. 19-21.7.2016. (HS)