United States American Festival of Microtonal Music: Soloists, Johnny Reinhard (director, composer, bassoon), Spectrum, New York City. 12-15.4.2014 (AR)
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A Piratical Performance at Stockport’s Plaza Theatre
United Kingdom Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance: Gilbert & Sullivan Touring Company, The Plaza Theatre, Stockport, 9.7.2014. (RJW)
Cheltenham Music Festival: Getting to Know a New Generation of Musicians
United Kingdom Schubert, Brahms, Dvořák,Gossek, A Panufnik, Vaughan Williams, Ravel, Debussy, Bacevicz: BBC New Generation Artists, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, 8-10.7.2014 9 (RJ0)
Cape Town Opera Captures Magic of Show Boat
United Kingdom Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II: Show Boat: Soloists, Cape Town Opera Chorus, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Lyric Theatre, The Lowry, Salford, 8.7.2014 (MC)
Dramatic Concert Performance from Karita Mattila in Ariadne auf Naxos
United Kingdom Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos (Concert performance): Soloists, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor) Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 6.7.2014. (GR)
A Golden Evening for Rimsky-Korsakov’s Rooster
United Kingdom Rimsky-Korsakov, Le Coq d’Or (The Golden Cockerel): Dancers, Singers, Chorus and Orchestra of the Moscow State Music Theatre for Young Audience named after Natalia Sats / Alevtina Ioffe. (conductor), London Coliseum, London, 8.7.2014. (JPr).
Cheltenham Music Festival: An Eruption of New Music at Cheltenham
United Kingdom Andrzej Panufnik, Roxanna Panufnik: Brodsky Quartet, Pittville Pump Room, 5.7.2014 (RJ)
Graham Fitkin, Michael Zev Gordon, Tom Stewart, Piers Hellawell, Arlene Sierra, Gavin Higgins: Fidelio Trio, Pittville Pump Room, 5.7.2014 (RJ)
Excellent Performance of Early Rachmaninov Opera
United Kingdom Rachmaninov, Aleko (concert performance): Soloists, Chorus (chorus master: William Cole), Melos Sinfonia, / Oliver Zeffman (conductor), St John’s Smith Square, London, 7.7.2014 (MB)