United States Aspen Music Festival 2025 [13]: Klein Music Tent, Harris Hall, Aspen. (HS)
Mixed results in Aspen cello concertos featuring Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Alisa Weilerstein
Festivals
EIF’s rising voices at the Queen’s Hall and a star quartet pay tribute to one of their members
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 10: Queen’s Hall. (SRT)
Musically all-encompassing performance of Erwartung at the Salzburg Festival
Austria Salzburg Festival [2] – Schoenberg, Webern, and Mahler, One Morning Turns Into an Eternity: Aušrinė Stundytė (soprano), Fleur Barron (contralto), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor). Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, 18.8.2025. (MB)
Carolina López Moreno simply spectacular in Suor Angelica at the Proms
United Kingdom BBC Proms 2025 [18]: R. Strauss, Puccini: Tiffin Boys’ Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 19.8.2025. (JR)
Modified rapture: Delius’s A Mass of Life at the BBC Proms
United Kingdom BBC Proms 2025 [17] – Delius: Jennifer Davis (soprano), Claudia Huckle (mezzo-soprano), David Butt Philip (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), BBC Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 18.8.2025. (CK)
Breaking the code: Collon and his Aurora Orchestra unlock the secrets at the heart of Shostakovich’s Fifth
United Kingdom BBC Proms 2025 [16] – Shostakovich’s Fifth by Heart: A musical and dramatic exploration of Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5: Max Revell (actor/dancer), Polly Frame, Craig Stein, Sarah Twomey (actors), Samuel West (Voice of Stalin), Petroc Trelawny (Voice of Telephone Operator). Aurora Orchestra / Nicholas Collon (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London. 16.8.2025. (CSa)
Determined yet flexible, Slobodeniouk and Thibaudet return to Tanglewood
United States Tanglewood 2025 [4] – Still, Liszt, Sibelius: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Boston Symphony Orchestra / Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor). Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, 17.8.2025. (ES-S)
Anna Handler makes an outstanding debut with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood
United States Tanglewood 2025 [3] – Brahms, R. Schumann, Tchaikovsky: Augustin Hadelich (violin), Boston Symphony Orchestra / Anna Handler (conductor). Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, 16.8.2025. (ES-S)
