Austria Bach, Schumann: Grigori Sokolov (piano), Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 5.8.2011. (JFL)
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A variable Dream of Gerontius opens the 2011 Three Choirs Festival
United Kingdom Three Choirs Festival 2011 (1) – Elgar: Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), John Graham-Hall (tenor), Alan Opie (baritone), Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Adrian Lucas. Worcester Cathedral. 6.8.2011 (JQ)
Prom 29 – More style than substance in Dudamel’s Mahler
United Kingdom Mahler, Symphony No.2 ‘Resurrection’: Miah Persson (soprano), Anna Larsson (mezzo), National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel. Royal Albert Hall, London, 5.8.2011. (JPr)
Notes from the 2011 Salzburg Festival ( 3 ) – Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro
Austria Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists, Robin Ticciati (conductor), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus, Salzburg, 4.8.2011 (JFL)
Musica Deo Sacra – Russian Church Music in an Anglican Context
United Kingdom Rachmaninov, Vespers: Musica Deo Sacra, Tewkesbury Abbey, 5.8.2011 (RJ)
The Mariinsky Ballet at London’s Royal Opera House
United Kingdom Mariinsky Ballet (50th Anniversary Season) – Scotch Symphony, In the Night, Ballet Imperial : Dancers and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre. Conductor: Boris Gruzin. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 4.8.2011. (JPr)
Prom 26 – Donald Runnicles leads an enthralling Daphnis et Chloé
United Kingdom Debussy, Dutilleux and Ravel: Lynn Harrell (cello), Edinburgh Festival Chorus, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, 3.8.2011 (CG)
Bodies that Sing: An Imaginative Re-creation of Mozart’s Don Giovanni
United States Mostly Mozart Festival (2):Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer (Conductor and Director), RoseTheater, Lincoln Center, New York, 4.8.2011 (SSM)