Meticulous Mahler from Chailly and the Remarkable Lucerne Festival Orchestra
25/08/2019
Switzerland Lucerne Festival [2] – Mahler: Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly (conductor), Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern, Lucerne, 24.8.2019. (JR)
Riccardo Chaillly (c) Marco Borggreve
Very Pleasant Programme in a Haven of Musical Peace on the Fringe
24/08/2019
United Kingdom Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 [4] – Aguado, Ferries: Stuart Murray-Mitchell (tenor), Gordon Ferries (guitar), St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh, 24.8.2019. (SRT) Read more
Fine Cast Can’t Overcome a Dreadful Salzburg Production of Médée
24/08/2019
Austria Salzburg Festival [7] – Cherubini, Médée: Soloists, Vienna State Opera Chorus (chorus master: Ernst Raffelsberger), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 19.8.2019. (MB)
Médée (c) Salzburger Festspiele/Thomas Aurin
Magnificent Bruckner from the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Andris Nelsons at the Proms
24/08/2019
United Kingdom BBC PROM 47 – Bach and Bruckner: Michael Schönheit (organ), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Andris Nelsons (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 23.8.2019. (AS)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig at the 2019 BBC Proms
(c) Chris Christodoulou
A Persuasive Weinberg Symphony from Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the CBSO
24/08/2019
United Kingdom BBC PROM 46 – Dorothy Howell, Elgar, Knussen, Weinberg: Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 22.8.2019. (CS)
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts the CBSO (c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou
Lucerne Festival [1]: Nézet-Séguin, Kavakos and the LFO Astound in Two Masterpieces
23/08/2019
Switzerland Lucerne Festival [1] – Beethoven, Shostakovich: Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Lucerne (KKL), 22.9.2019. (JR)
Leonidas Kavakos (c) Marco Borggreve
Nearing the Aspen Finish Line, Mozart’s Figaro and McDuffie in Recital
23/08/2019
United States Aspen Music Festival [9]: Aspen. (HS) Read more
Maurizio Pollini’s Intellectual and Pianistic Mastery at the Salzburg Festival
23/08/2019
Austria Salzburg Festival [6] – Schoenberg, Nono, and Beethoven: Maurizio Pollini (piano), André Richard (sound direction). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 18.8.2019. (MB)
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
(c) Salzburger Festspiele/Marco Borrelli
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This joyous set of Beethoven's sonatas takes its place among the very best. 
In its own way, the Seven Words of Christ is just as sublime as the Stabat Mater. 
This sensitive, dynamic recording is a joy, and may even constitute a revelation. 
The pair exhibits a refined style on these illuminating performances. 
A deeply affecting experience that ought to win the opera many new admirers. 
