United Kingdom Strauss, Wolf, Wagner: Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Julius Drake (piano) Wigmore Hall, London, 13.9.2015 (RB)
Robert Beattie
All the Fun of the Last Night of the Proms
(c) Chris Christodoulou
United Kingdom Prom 76, Last Night of the Proms: Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Danielle de Niese (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London 12.9.2015 (RB)
San Francisco Symphony Pushes at Musical Boundaries
United Kingdom BBC Prom 61 – Ives, Bartók, Beethoven: Yuja Wang (piano) San Francisco Symphony’/ Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 31.8.2015. (RB)
A Fitting Tribute to Stephen Sondheim at the Proms
United Kingdom Proms Chamber Music 5 Sondheim Siân Phillips (vocalist), Kitty Whately (mezzo-Soprano), Jamie Parker (vocalist), Anthony Brown (saxophone), Richard Sisson (piano), Petroc Trelawny (compère), Paul Foster (stage director), Cadogan Hall, London, 17.8.2015 (RB)
Grange Park Opera Triumph at the Proms with Fiddler on the Roof
Prom 11. Fiddler on the Roof Grange Park Opera, BBC Concert Orchestra/David Charles Abell (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 25.7.2015 (RB)
Nikolai Lugansky Excels in Beethoven
United Kingdom Weber, Beethoven, Brahms: Nikolai Lugansky (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra/Yuri Temirkanov (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London, 26.6.2015 (RB)
The Brahms Violin Sonatas Impressively Done by Faust and Melnikov
United Kingdom Albert Dietrich, Schumann, Brahms Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Wigmore Hall, London 12.6.2015. (RB)
Unorthodox Ott-Tristrano Piano Duo Excels in Transcriptions
United Kingdom Ravel, Debussy, Francesco Tristano, Stravinsky:Alice Sara Ott (piano), Francesco Tristano (piano), Queen Elizabeth, London 11.6.2015 (RB)