United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2026 [2]: Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 14 & 15.8.2026. (SRT)
Venetian light and Gesualdan darkness: both sides of the Baroque at the EIF 2026
Festivals
Latonia Moore’s star power shines and Russell Thomas saves the game (again) in Cleveland
United States Summers at Severance [3]: A Night at the Opera – Various: Latonia Moore (soprano), Russell Thomas (tenor), Blossom Festival Chorus (chorus director: Lisa Wong), The Cleveland Orchestra / John Fiore (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 13.8.2026. (MSJ)
Polished accounts of new and enterprising repertoire at the North York Moors Festival
United Kingdom North York Moors Festival 2026 – ‘The Dividing Line’: Alena Baeva, Benjamin Baker, Alessandro Ruisi and Charlotte Scott (violins), Sascha Bota (viola), Rebecca Gilliver, Tim Posner and Jamie Walton (cellos), Will Duerden (double bass), Ben Goldscheider (horn), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Matthew Hunt (clarinet), Jonathan Davies (bassoon). St Hedda’s Church, Egton Bridge, North Yorkshire 13.8.2026. (PC)
After some Edinburgh choral delights, it was the tribute to John Wallace that was most heartwarming
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2026 [1]: (SRT)
Time Spans Festival offers an ideal listening environment for Rihm, Kurtág and Farrin
United States Time Spans Contemporary Music Festival – Various: DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, 8 & 10.8.2026. (DS)
Dudamel and the LA Phil excel in Gabriela Ortiz’s ballet Revolución diamantina at the BBC Proms
United Kingdom BBC Proms 2026 [16] – Beethoven, Ortiz: Los Angeles Master Chorale (upper voices), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 12.8.2026. (CK)
Pasteurised ‘Pastoral’, Incandescent Inferno: Gustavo Dudamel and LA Phil at the Proms
United Kingdom BBC Proms 2026 [15] – Beethoven, Adès: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 11.8.2026. (AV-E)
Triumphant Cesti’s Il pomo d’oro celebrates the Innsbruck Early Music Festival’s 50th anniversary
Austria Innsbruck Festival for Early Music – Pietro Antonio Cesti, Il pomo d’oro: Soloists, Street Motion Studio, Compagnia Fattoria Vittadini, NovoCanto, Accademia Bizantina / Ottavio Dantone (conductor). Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck, 7 & 8.8.2026. (AB)
