Sterling Endeavours from SWR Sinfonieorchester and Roth in Challenging Concert

GermanyGermany Wyschnegradsky, Haas, Schoenberg: Klaus Steffes-Holländer, Matan Porat, Florian Hoelscher, Julia Vogelsänger, Akiko Okabe, Christoph Grund (pianos), SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg/François-Xavier Roth, Berlin Musikfest 2015, Philharmonie, Berlin 7.9.2015 (MC)

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François-Xavier Roth
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Rattle’s Return Results in a Gerontius ‘Worth your Memory’

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius: Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano), Toby Spence (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), BBC Proms Youth Choir, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 8.9.2015 (GR)

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St Petersburg Philharmonic Returns to its Former Greatness

United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC Prom 70 – Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Rimsky-Korsakov: Nikolai Lugansky (piano), St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 7.9.15 (AS)

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Yuri Temirkanov conducts the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
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Stage and Screen Come to the Proms in a Bernstein Bonanza

United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC Prom 67 – Bernstein, Stage and Screen: with singers including Louise Dearman (vocalist), Lucy Schaufer (mezzo-soprano), Scarlett Strallen (vocalist) and  Julian Ovenden (vocalist), Maida Vale Singers, John Wilson Orchestra / John Wilson (conductor),  Royal Albert Hall, London, 5.9.2015. (JPr)

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Bernstein’s ‘Make Our Garden Grow’ at the BBC Proms: Bernstein – Stage and Screen L-R: Matthew Seadon-Young, Louise Dearman, Mark Meadows, Scarlett Strallen, Julian Ovenden, Lucy Schaufer, Patrick Smyth c BBC/Chris Christodoulou

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