Festivals – Page 10 – Seen and Heard International

Only with no trace of a gimmick does it work brilliantly for Iván Fischer and his orchestra in Edinburgh

15/08/202310/08/2023 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2023 [4] – Weber, Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn: Daniel Lozakovich (violin), Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 10.8.2023. (SRT)

Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra at a previous concert

The Prom performance by violinist Geneva Lewis of Grace Williams’s concerto should be eagerly sought out

10/08/2023 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Prom 32 – Pejačević, Grace Williams, Holst: Geneva Lewis (violin), Ladies of the London Symphony Chorus, BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Jaime Martín (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 8.8.2023. (CC)

Jaime Martin conducts the BBC NOW in Holst’s The Planets © BBC/Chris Christodoulou

The freshness of youth ensured a bracing concert of Tchaikovsky and Brahms in Gstaad

10/08/2023 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Menuhin Gstaad Festival 2023 [2]: Tchaikovsky, Brahms: Raphael Nussbaumer (violin); Gstaad Festival Amateur Orchestra / Kevin Griffiths (conductor). Gstaad Festival Tent, Gstaad, Switzerland, 6.8.2023. (CC)

Verdi’s Macbeth proves infertile ground for Krzysztof Warlikowski at the Salzburg Festival

10/08/2023 by Jim Pritchard

Austria Salzburg Festival 2023 [2] – Verdi, Macbeth: Soloists, Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus, Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Philippe Jordan (conductor). Performance of 29.7.2023 (directed by Henning Kasten) and available until 27.10.2023 on ARTE Concert. (JPr)

Krzysztof Warlikowski’s *Macbeth* Act II, Scene 3 © Bernd Uhlig

Musical favourites at the 29th International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival

10/08/2023 by Raymond Walker

United Kingdom The 29th International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival [3] – The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan Concert: Simon Butteriss (narrator and baritone), Gaynor Keeble (mezzo-soprano), Phoebe Smith (soprano), Jack Roberts (tenor), Matthew Siveter (baritone), National Festival Orchestra / Murray Hipkin (conductor). Opera House, Buxton, 4.8.2023. (RJW)

*The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan*: (l-r) Jack Roberts, Phoebe Smith, Simon Butteriss, Gaynor Keeble and Matthew Siveter © Jane Stokes

A rare trio of curtain raisers at the 29th International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival

10/08/2023 by Raymond Walker

United Kingdom The 29th International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival [2] – Sullivan’s Cox & Box, Trial by Jury, The Zoo: Soloists and Chorus of North West Productions, National Festival Orchestra / David Goulden (conductor). Opera House, Buxton, 3.8.2023. (RJW)

*The Zoo*: ‘No more we’ll part’ © Jane Stokes

Robertson and Tao work wonders at Cleveland’s Blossom Festival

09/08/2023 by Mark S Jordan

United States Blossom Festival 2023 [1]: Conrad Tao (piano), Students of the Kent Blossom Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra / David Robertson (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 5.8.2023. (MSJ)

Virtuosity from Steven Banks and Gil Shaham in a thoughtful Aspen Music Festival weekend

09/08/2023 by Harvey Steiman

United States Aspen Music Festival 2023 [10]: Benedict Music Tent, Harris Hall, Meadows Campus, Aspen, Colorado. (HS)

Saxophonist Steve Banks and conductor Xian Zhang in Billy Childs’s Saxophone Concerto © Diego Redel

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