United Kingdom Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Marx: Claire Booth (soprano), BBC Philharmonic / Simone Young (conductor). BBC Philharmonic Studio, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, 1.11.2017. (RBa)
Rob Barnett
BBC Philharmonic’s Afternoon Tonal Silk and Satin in Salford Quays
United Kingdom Delius, Beethoven, Sibelius: Pavel Kolesnikov (piano), BBC Philharmonic / Rory Macdonald (conductor), BBC Philharmonic Studio. MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, 27.10.2017. (RBa)
Twelve Years of Celebrating Malcolm Arnold in Northampton
The 12th Malcolm Arnold Festival. Royal and Derngate and St Matthew’s Church, Northampton, 14-15.10.2017 (RBa)
English Music Festival in Yorkshire Lifts the Lid Off an English Treasury
United Kingdom Stanford, Ireland, Holst, Moeran, Alwyn, Delius, Howells, Milford, Vaughan Williams, W. S. Lloyd Webber, Cyril Scott, Fogg, Brian, Phibbs, Pantcheff, Bach, Butterworth, Orr, Somervell, Finzi, Armstrong Gibbs: Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin), Joseph Spooner (cello), Duncan Honeybourne (piano, organ), Rebeca Omordia (piano), Christopher Foster (bass), Kathryn Moseley (piano). The English Music Festival. St Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth, Leyburn, Yorkshire, 6-8.10.2017. (RBa)
Imperial and Revolutionary – Worlds in Collision and Transition at the Proms
United Kingdom 2017 BBC Proms 68 – Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich: Denis Matsuev (piano), Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus / Valery Gergiev (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 3.9.2017 (RBa)

Mother Russia’s Imperial Ways: Glowering and Exuberance
United Kingdom 2017 BBC Proms 63 – Taneyev, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky: Kirill Gerstein (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 31.8.2017. (RBa)
Latvian Radio Choir’s All-Night Vigil Concludes ‘Rachmaninov Day’
United Kingdom 2017 BBC Proms 38 – Rachmaninov: Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 13.8.2017. (RBa)

Striking Collegiate Approach from Gavrylyuk and Dausgaard in commanding Rachmaninov
United Kingdom 2017 BBC Proms 37 – Rachmaninov: Alexander Gavrylyuk (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 13.8.2017. (RBa)
