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This Week’s Review

Beatrice Rana and The Philadelphia Orchestra Electrify Carnegie Hall with Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto

22/07/201912/06/2019 by Rick Perdian

United StatesUnited States Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff: Beatrice Rana (piano), The Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York, 7.6.2019. (RP)

Beatrice Rana © Marie Staggat

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A Fitting Celebration of the Belfast Philharmonic Choir’s 145th Anniversary

29/06/201910/06/2019 by Robert Beattie

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mendelssohn, Elijah: Elaine McDaid (soprano); Dawn Burns (alto); Conor Breen (tenor); Kevin Neville (bass); Belfast Philharmonic Choir; Ulster Orchestra / Stephen Doughty (conductor); David Stevens (0rgan), Ulster Hall, Belfast, 7.6.2019. (RB)

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A Recital from Katya Apekisheva that was Outstanding in every Respect

29/06/201910/06/2019 by Colin Clarke

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prokofiev, Schubert, Haydn, Janáček, Rachmaninov: Katya Apekisheva (piano). Wigmore Hall, London 6.6.2019. (CC)

Katya Apekisheva (c) Jack Liebeck

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A Rewarding Rarity by John Blow Revived in London

29/06/201910/06/2019 by Mark Berry

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Handel, Aminta e Fillide and Blow – Venus and Adonis: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama / Chad Kelly (conductor). Milton Court Theatre, London, 5.6.2019. (MB)

Cupid Collin Shea centre ) and chorus (c) Clive Barda

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A Tired Un ballo in maschera Ends Geneva’s Season

29/06/201910/06/2019 by Antoine Lévy-Leboyer

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Verdi, Un ballo in maschera: – Soloists, Chœur du Grand Théâtre de Genève, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Pinchas Steinberg (conductor). Grand Théâtre de Genève, 7.6.2019. (ALL)

Franco Vassallo, Günes Gürle and Grigory Shkarupa (c) Carole Parodi

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In the Montréal Concours, Three Young Violinists Give a Glimpse of the Future

29/06/201906/06/2019 by Laurence Vittes

CanadaCanada Bartók, Sibelius, Shostakovich: Elli Choi (violin), Christine Lim (violin), Hao Zhou (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal / Alexander Shelley (conductor). Maison Symphonique, Montréal, 4.6.2019. (LV)

Christine Lim (c) Tam Lan Truong

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Experiments in Opera Premieres the Zany, Crazy and Touching Chunky in Heat

17/08/202005/06/2019 by Rick Perdian

United StatesUnited States 2019 New York Opera Fest [6] – Various Composers, Chunky in Heat: Soloists, Contemporaneous / David Bloom (conductor), Experiments in Opera, The Flea Theater, New York, 2.6.2019. (RP)

 Sarah Daniels (Chunky) © Reuben Radding

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Sleepy but epic, Zurich revives a Robert Wilson Norma

29/06/201905/06/2019 by Casey Creel

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bellini: Norma: Soloists and Chorus of the Opernhaus Zürich, Philharmonia Zürich / Fabio Luisi (conductor), Opernhaus Zürich, Zurich, 2.6.2019. (CCr)

Norma (c Toni Suter

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