Festivals – Page 3 – Seen and Heard International

Bostridge sings Bach and Britten at Oxford Lieder

29/12/202016/10/2020 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival [3] – J.S. Bach, Britten: Ian Bostridge (tenor), Saskia Giorgini (piano), Oxford Bach Soloists / Thomas Hammond-Davies (conductor). Merton College Chapel (live stream), 14.10.2020. (CS)

Ian Bostridge, Oxford Bach Soloists, & Thomas Hammond-Davies (conductor)
in Merton College Chapel

Time-travelling Gothic melodrama from Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton at the Oxford Lieder Festival

29/12/202015/10/2020 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival [2]: Six Songs of Melmouth – Schubert, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Satie, Poldowski, Walton: Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano). Holywell Music Room, Oxford (live stream), 13.10.2020. (CS)

Joseph Middleton and Carolyn Sampson (photo courtesy of Oxford Lieder Festival)

‘Hafez in Song’: Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake at the Oxford Lieder Festival

29/12/202014/10/2020 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival [1]: The Western-Eastern Divan – Schubert, Henze, Wolf, Mahler: Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Holywell Music Room, Oxford (live stream), 11.10.2020. (CS)

Ian Bostridge (photo courtesy of Oxford Lieder Festival)

Impeccable levels of imagination and confidence from Chanticleer Live in London via California

27/10/202004/10/2020 by CClarke

United States Live from London – Chanticleer’s Love Always: Live-streamed from San Francisco, California, 3.10.2020. (CC)

A satisfying conclusion to the 2020 Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival

29/12/202004/10/2020 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom Glière, Puccini, J.S. Bach, Mozart: Guy Johnston (cello), Julian Bliss (clarinet), Navarra Quartet (Magnus Johnston & Marije Johnston [violin], Sascha Bota [viola], Brian O’Kane [cello]). Chapel & Marble Hall, Hatfield House, recorded broadcast, 2.10.2020. (CS)

The Navarra Quartet and Julian Bliss, in the Marble Hall at Hatfield House

Listening to The Sixteen reflects the sheer joy of hearing music Live from London again

12/10/202021/09/2020 by CClarke

United Kingdom Live from London – Music for Reflection: The Sixteen / Harry Christophers (director), with Antonia Christophers (narrator). King’s Place, London, 19.9.2020. (CC)

Live from London – The Sixteen (c) The VOCES8 Foundation

Week two of Scotland’s Lammermuir Festival contained an ebullient potpourri of music

29/12/202020/09/2020 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Lammermuir Festival 2020 [2]: Holy Trinity Church, Haddington, 13-19.9.2020. (SRT)

Jonathan-Manson (viola da gamba) and Steven Devine (harpsichord)
© Lammermuir Festival

BBC Last Night of the Prompts: a strictly personal report

03/10/202019/09/2020 by Jack Buckley

BBC Proms Live – Last Night of the Proms: Golda Schultz (soprano), Nicola Benedetti (violin), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra / Dalia Stasevska (conductor). Broadcast live (directed for TV by Matthew Woodward) from the Royal Albert Hall, 12.9.2020. (JB) Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro (Overture); ‘Deh vieni, non tardar’ R. Strauss – ‘Morgen!’ Andrea Tarrodi – Solus (BBC commission: … Read more

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