Enjoyable, Stimulating Prom from the Orchestre de Paris and Daniel Harding
27/08/2019
United Kingdom BBC PROM 50 – Schumann, Widmann, Beethoven: Orchestre de Paris / Daniel Harding (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 27.8.2019. (CC)
Daniel Harding
The Joys of the Marlboro Music Festival: Chamber Music’s Best-Kept Secret
27/08/2019
United States 2019 Marlboro Music Festival – Haydn, Harbison, Schubert, Beethoven: Participating and senior artists, Marlboro College, Vermont. (CSa)
Peter Wiley (cello), János Palojtay (piano) and artists (c) Pete Checchia
One Final Mahler From Haitink in his Second-to-Last Lucerne Concert
27/08/2019
Switzerland Lucerne Festival [4] – Schubert, Mahler: Anna Lucia Richter (soprano), Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Bernard Haitink (conductor), Lucerne Festival, Lucerne, 20.8.2019. (CCr)
Bernard Haitink conducts the COE © Lucerne Festival
Great Bruckner’s Eighth in Lucerne with Nelsons and the Leipzigers
26/08/2019
Switzerland Lucerne Festival [3] – Bruckner: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Andris Nelsons (conductor), Kultur- und Kongresszentrum (KKL) Luzern, Lucerne, 25.8.2019. (JR)
Andris Nelsons conducts the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
Khatia Buniatishvili Demonstrates Highly Individual Pianism – But Not in a Good Way!
26/08/2019
Austria Salzburg Festival [9] – Schubert, Liszt, and Stravinsky: Khatia Buniatishvili (piano), Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 21.8.2019. (MB)
Khatia Buniatishvili (c) Marco Borrelli
Andrew Davis’s Götterdämmerung Ends the 2019 Edinburgh Festival in a Blaze of Glory
26/08/2019
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival [14] – Wagner, Götterdämmerung (in concert): Soloists, RCS (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) Voices (director: Timothy Dean), Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 25.8.2019. (SRT)
Christine Goerke (Brunnhilde), Josef Wagner (Gunther), RSNO & Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
(c) Ryan Buchanan
A Lovely Salzburg Lieder Recital from Mauro Peter and Helmut Deutsch
26/08/2019
Austria Salzburg Festival [8]– Schubert and Strauss: Mauro Peter (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano). Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, 20.8.2019. (MB)
Mauro Peter (tenor) and Helmut Deutsch (c) Marco Borrelli
Aspen Ends the Season with Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’
26/08/2019
United States Aspen Music Festival [10]: Aspen. (HS) Read more
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In its own way, the Seven Words of Christ is just as sublime as the Stabat Mater. 
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