United States Sun Valley Music Festival [2]: Sun Valley Pavilion, Sun Valley, Idaho, 13 & 14.8.2024. (RP)
Spreading the joy with music new and old at the Sun Valley Music Festival
Festivals
Flying the Flag at Tanglewood: Dudamel and his children’s orchestra celebrate Venezuela’s El Sistema
United States Tanglewood Festival 2024 [12] – Adams, Estévez, Ginastera, Shostakovich: National Children’s Symphony of Venezuela / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor), Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, 8.8.2024. (CSa)
Francisco Coll’s new Cello Concerto has its UK premiere at a storytelling BBC SO Prom
United Kingdom PROM 38 – Dukas, Coll, Puccini, Stravinsky: Sol Gabetta (violoncello), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Tianyi Lu (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 18.8.2024. (AK)
Exceptional music making in a rather static production of Bianca e Falliero in Pesaro
Italy Rossini Opera Festival 2024 [1] – Rossini, Bianca e Falliero: Soloists, Coro del teatro ventidio basso, Orchestra sinfonica nazionale della RAI, Roberto Abbado (conductor). Auditorium Scavolini, Pesaro, 7.8.2024. (AB)
Welser-Möst is patient and potent in Bruckner’s Fourth with the Cleveland Orchestra
United States Summers at Severance 2024 [2]: Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 15.8.2024. (MSJ)
The Takács Quartet pack a mighty punch in Edinburgh, though there is a little too much Esfahani baroque
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2024 [9]: Takács Quartet (16.8), Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord, 17.8). Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 16 & 17.8.2024. (SRT)
A micro-managed Salzburg Mahler Ninth from Andris Nelsons and the VPO was fine, how could it not be?
Austria Salzburg Festival [5] – Mahler, Symphony No.9: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Andris Nelsons (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Leopold Knötzl) from the Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 11.8.2024 and available on STAGE+. (JPr)
Celebrating 40 years of free, top-notch music in Sun Valley
United States Sun Valley Music Festival [1]: Sun Valley Pavilion, Sun Valley, Idaho, 11 & 12.8.2024. (RP)
