United Kingdom Rossini, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Bizet / Sarasate, Ravel. Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Conductor, George Pehlivanian, Uto Ughi (violin). Sala Santa Cecilia, Parco della Musica Rome 23.07.2015. (JB)
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A Wonderful Start to Leif Ove Andsnes’ Proms Survey of the Beethoven Concertos
United Kingdom Prom 9 – Beethoven and Stravinsky: Leif Ove Andsnes (piano, director), Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Royal Albert Hall, London, 23.7.2015. (MB)
‘The Play’s the Thing’: Shakespeare and Mendelssohn Combine to Excellent Effect
United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2015 – William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn: Members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Anna Sideris (soprano), Catherine Backhouse (mezzo-soprano), Chorus and Orchestra of Garsington Opera / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 22.7.2015 (JPr)
Madrid’s Opera Season Ends with a Surprise Triple Bill
Spain Granados: Goyescas, Teatro Real Orchestra and Chorus, Guillermo García Calvo (conductor), Teatro Real, Madrid, 9.7.2015 (JMI)
Enjoyable Baroque Concert from Dame Emma and Mallorcan Musicians
United Kingdom Avison, Pergolesi, Telemann, Handel, Purcell, Worgan, Arne, Storace, Vivaldi: Dame Emma Kirkby (soprano), Ars Musicae of Mallorca (Bernat Cabot, leader), Timothy Roberts (harpsichord), Matthew Dunn (organ), St. Botolph’s without Aldgate, London, 10.7.15 (BW)
French Connections in Gloucestershire: Satie, Messiaen, Joan of Arc
United Kingdom Meurig Bowen, Erik Satie – Memoirs of a Pear Shaped Life; David Bamber (actor), Anne Lovett (piano), Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham, 2.7.2015 (RJ)
Messiaen, Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus (selection) : Cordelia Williams (piano), Michael Symmons Roberts (reciter), Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury , 8.7.2015. (RJ)
Carl Theodor Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc: The Orlando Consort [Matthew Venner, Mark Dobell, Angus Smith, Donald Greig, Robert MacDonald], Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, 8.7.2015. (RJ)
Keeping Up with a New Generation of Musicians in Cheltenham
Schubert, Mulsant, Dvořák: Armida Quartet [Martin Funda and Johanna Staemmler (violins), Teresea Schwamm (viola), Peter-Philipp Staemmler (cello)], Lise Berthaud (viola), Cheltenham Music Festival, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, 8.7.2014.(RJ)
Don Pasquale Goes to Hollywood
United States Donizetti, Don Pasquale: Soloists, Cincinnati Opera, Richard Buckley (conductor), Chuck Hudson (stage director). Cincinnati Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH. 9.7.2015 (RDA)