United Kingdom Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Hye-Youn Lee (soprano), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Benedict Nelson (bass), Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Peter Nardone (conductor), Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Cathedral, 1.8.2013 (JQ)
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From Spotted Snakes to Salad Days with Bowman and Bott
United Kingdom Purcell, Handel, Linley, Britten, Mendelssohn, Elgar, Gershwin et al: Catherine Bott (soprano), James Bowman (counter-tenor), Jonathan Cohen (piano), Three Choirs Festival, Blackfriars Priory, Gloucester, 2.8.2013 (RJ)
Good Balance between Orchestra and Singers in Princess Ida
United Kingdom Gilbert & Sullivan, Princess Ida: Peak Opera / Richard Baker (conductor), Ian Henderson (director), Buxton Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Opera House, Buxton, 31.7.2013 (RJW)
Karita Mattila In Concert In Buenos Aires
Argentina Brahms, Duparc, Puccini, Sibelius, Dvorák: Mozarteum Argentino. Karita Mattila (soprano), Martin Katz (piano) at Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 29.7.2013. (JSJ)
Colli Demonstrates Charm and Affability in Schumann
United Kingdom Schumann, Brahms: Federico Colli (piano), Oxford Philomusica / Marios Papadopoulos (conductor), Oxford Philomusica Piano Festival, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 1.8.2013
Sanctuary Ensemble Celebrate Lindisfarne Gospels Originator
United Kingdom Christian Forshaw, S S Wesley, Dowland, Vaughan Williams: Christian Forshaw and The Sanctuary Ensemble, Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Cathedral, 1.8.2013. (RJ)
Polished, Fast Moving Salad Days at Buxton
United Kingdom Slade & Reynolds, Salad Days: North West Productions / Robert Owen (conductor and director), Buxton Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Pavilion Theatre, Buxton, 29.7.2013 (RJW)
Oxbridge Postgrads Perform Slick Yeomen of the Guard
United Kingdom Gilbert & Sullivan, The Yeomen of the Guard: Oxbridge Opera Company / Christopher Milton (conductor), Buxton G&S Festival, Opera House, Buxton, 28.7.2013 (RJW)