United Kingdom VOCES8 Live from London – Horizons: The Swingle Singers, with sound engineer Max Hunter. VOCES8 Centre, London, 22.8.2020. (CC)
Horizons: The Swingles are Live from London
Theatre, Musicals, Broadcasts & Films
Reviews and articles of some events that are not Concerts, Opera, or Dance, and others that have been streamed, shown in the cinema or on TV
A vintage Un ballo in maschera from the Met offers thrilling voices and lavish sets
United States Verdi, Un ballo in maschera: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of The Metropolitan Opera, New York / James Levine (conductor). Performance of 26.1.1991, reviewed as a Nightly Met Opera Stream on 20.8.2020. (RP)
Barrie Kosky’s busy production meets Philippe Jordan’s meticulous conducting: Bayreuth’s current Die Meistersinger
Germany Wagner, Der Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / Philippe Jordan (conductor). 2017 performance from the Bayreuth Festspielhaus and reviewed as a live stream on DG Stage, 19.8.2020. (CC)
EIF 2020’s My Light Shines On: is it better than nothing?
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2020 – My Light Shines On: (SRT)
Mahler – Symphony No.7: Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Thomas Søndergård (conductor). Reviewed on the EIF’s YouTube channel from the Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 20.8.2020
Beethoven – Piano Concerto No.2: Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Paul Lewis (piano & director) Reviewed on the EIF’s YouTube channel from the Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 20.8.2020
Four choreographers, four exterior locations, one piece of music: SF Ballet @ Home’s Dance of Dreams
United States Dance of Dreams: Dancers of San Francisco Ballet in a new dance film (click here) for SF Ballet @ Home by Benjamin Millepied for San Francisco Ballet and premiered on 13.8.2020. (JO’D)
Aspen Music Festival: A dizzying Beethoven piano sonata from Andreas Haefliger
Switzerland Aspen Music Festival – Beethoven: Andreas Haefliger (piano), world premiere of a performance recorded in Uri, Switzerland, for an upcoming movie, presented virtually by Aspen Music Festival, 16.8.2020. (HS)
Fine singing and excellent musicianship from Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak, and the Vienna Morphing Quintet
France Met Stars Live in Concert [3]: Roberto Alagna (tenor) and Aleksandra Kurzak (soprano), Vienna Morphing Quintet (Yuuki Wong, Lucas Medlam [violins], Tomasz Wabnic [viola/director], Moritz Ebert [cello], Felipe Medina [double bass]), Alexander Wladigeroff (trumpet). Broadcast live in HD (directed by Gary Halvorson) from Le Chateau de la Chevre d’Or, Èze, France, 16.8.2020. (JPr)
JAM on the Marsh: sounds of the sea and storm
United Kingdom JAM on the Marsh – Aviss, Barber, Bartók, Bingham & Mealor: John Frederick Hudson (pianist), London Mozart Players / Michael Bawtree (conductor), St Leonard’s Church, Hythe, 15.8.2020. (CS)
