United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2015 (14) – Ravel, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky: Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor), Usher Hall, 19.8.2015 (SRT)
Festivals
Ensemble Guadagni Contribute Warm, Flexible Sound to Davies Recital
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2015 (13) –Blow and Purcell: Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Ensemble Guadagni, Queen’s Hall, 19.08.2015 (SRT)
Dialogueless Fidelio Lacks Clarity Despite Good Individual Performances
Austria Salzburg Festival (5) – Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus (chorus master: Ernst Raffelsberger), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Grosses Festspielhaus, 13.8.2015 (MB)
Copyright:Monika Rittershaus
Osmo Vänskä Concludes the Sibelius Symphony Cycle at the BBC Proms
United Kingdom Prom 43: Sibelius: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 17.8.2015. (RB)
Marriage by Examination at the 2015 Rossini Opera Festival
Italy Rossini Opera Festival (1) La Gazzetta: Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Comunale of Bologna. Conductor, Enrique Mazzola; Stage Director, Marco Carniti; Sets by Manuela Gasperoni; Costumes by Maria Filippi; Lighting by Fabio Rossi; Chorus Master, Andrea Faiutti. Teatro Rossini Pesaro. 14.8.2015 (JB)
Heatwave Sibelius at the BBC Proms
United Kingdom Prom 42: Sibelius & Finnissy: Julian Rachlin (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 16.8.2015. (RB)
Top-Rank Singers Bring Emotional Power to Mozart’s Figaro
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2015 (10) – Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro: Soloists, Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer (conductor & director), Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 16.8.2015 (SRT)
at the 2015 EIF c Eszter Gordon
“Die Entführung” at the Proms – Too Beautiful for Our Ears…and Too Many Notes?
United Kingdom Prom 39: Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Soloists, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Robin Ticciati (conductor) – Royal Albert Hall, London, 14.08.2015 (MMB)