United States Aspen Music Festival (2): Gil Shaham and Joshua Bell (violins), James Feddeck (organ), Aspen Chamber Orchestra, Robert Spano and Miguel Harth-Bedoya (conductors), Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Colorado. 5-6.7.2014 (HS)
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First Half of Demidenko Recital Proves Puzzling
United Kingdom Chopin, Rachmaninov, and Medtner: Nikolai Demidenko (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 5.7.2014 (MB)
Jun Hwi Cho Wins Joyce B. Cowin First Prize At The Seventh New York International Piano Competition
Jun Hwi Cho Of Seoul, South Korea Wins Joyce B. Cowin First Prize At The Seventh New York International Piano Competition
Evocative Shostakovich, A Sonata by Stephen Hough, and the Triumphant Takács Quartet
United States Aspen Music Festival (1): Philip Setzer (violin), David Finckel (cello), Wu Han (piano), Stephen Hough (piano), Takács Quartet. Harris Hall, Aspen, Colorado. 1-3.7.2014 (HS)
Cheltenham Music Festival: Compelling New Music Drama Inspired by Japanese Prints
United Kingdom Nicola Lefanu, Tokaido Road (world premiere): Soloists, Okeanos / Dominic Wheeler (conductor), Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham, 6.7.2014.
New English Ballet Theatre Save the Best till Last
United Kingdom Mussorgsky, Beethoven, Villa-Lobos et al, Tryst: Devotion and Betrayal: New English Ballet Theatre, Peacock Theatre, London, 5.7.2014 (J.O’D)
Four Fistfuls of a Lunchtime Concert at Cardiff
United Kingdom Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Bizet, Rachmaninov: David Doidge (piano) and Seho Lee (piano), Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff , 4.7.2014 (LJ).
Rarely Performed Rossini Disappoints
Germany Rossini: Guillaume Tell, Orchestra and Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper, Dan Ettinger (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 2.7.2014 (JMI)