This Week’s Review

Edward Gardner Leads a Dramatic Verdi Requiem at the Three Choirs Festival

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival (3) – Verdi:  Hye-Youn Lee (soprano). Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano), David Butt Philip (tenor), James Platt (bass), Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor). Gloucester Cathedral, 28.7.2019. (JQ)

Edward Gardner conducts the Verdi Requiem (c) Michael Whitefoot

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Welsh National Opera’s Spectacularly Successful War and Peace Comes to Covent Garden

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prokofiev, War and Peace (ed. Ermolaeva/McAllister, sung in English): Soloists, Dancers, Chorus & Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Tomáš Hanus (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 23.7.2019. (CC)

Cast of WNO’s War and Peace (c) Clive Barda

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Omer Meir Wellber Impresses at his First Prom Appearance with the BBC Philharmonic

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC PROM 7 – Mozart, Ben-Haim, Schoenberg and Schumann: Yeol Eum Son (piano), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / Omer Meir Wellber (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 23.8.2019. (AS)

Yeol Eum Son (piano), BBC Philharmonic and Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)
(c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou

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Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra’s Outstanding Proms Performance of Má Vlast

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC PROM 2 – Dvořák and Smetana: Joshua Bell (violin), Bamberg Symphony Orchestra / Jakub Hrůša (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 20.7.2019. (AS)

Joshua Bell (c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou

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A Fabulous Evening at the Proms with Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC PROM 4 – Adams, Barber, Holst: Nemanha Radulović (violin), Trinity Boys Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Kirill Karabits (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 21.7.2019. (CC)

Nemanja Radulović (violin) (c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou

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