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Cheltenham

Cheltenham Music Festival 2011 – A menacing Boesch and a demented Spence stun audiences

10/07/201107/07/2011 by Stan

Loewe, Schubert, Mahler : Florian Boesch (baritone) with Roger Vignoles, Pittville Pump Room, 30.6.2011 (RJ)

 and

Schumann, Janáček : Toby Spence (tenor), Helen Sherman (mezzo-soprano) with Julian Milford (piano). Pittville Pump Room, 3.7.2011 (RJ)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Cheltenham, Roger Jones

Cheltenham Music Festival 2011 – Steve Reich Marches To Many Different Drums

10/07/201105/07/2011 by Stan

Cheltenham Festival 2011 – Steve Reich: Drumming: The Colin Currie Group and Synergy Vocals, The Town Hall Cheltenham, 6pm, 3.7.2011

and

Kuniko Kato plays Reich:  Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham 3pm, 3.7.2011 (BK)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Bill Kenny, Cheltenham

Cheltenham 2011 :A Trio of Song Cycles opens the music festival

03/07/201101/07/2011 by Stan

Fauré, Vaughan Williams, Venables : Caroline MacPhie, Allan Clayton, Elias String Quartet, Tom Poster (piano), Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, 29.6.2011 (RJ)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Cheltenham, Roger Jones

In Praise of Amateur Opera – Bel Canto Opera’s La Traviata

04/03/201922/06/2011 by Stan

Verdi, La Traviata: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of Bel Canto Opera, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, 16.6.2011. (RJ)

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Categories Opera & Ballet, Previously Published, UK Opera Tags Cheltenham, Roger Jones

Blacher, Korngold, Rachmaninov with BBC NOW

03/07/201125/04/2011 by Stan

Blacher, Korngold, Rachmaninov : BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Rumon Gamba (conductor), Matthew Trussler (violin), Town Hall, Cheltenham, 21.4.2011. (RJ)

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La Clemenza di Tito at English Touring Opera

21/11/201908/04/2011 by Stan

Mozart, La Clemenza di Tito: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English Touring Opera/Richard Lewis (conductor), Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, 6.4.2011. (RJ)

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Walton, Delius and other British Composers

03/07/201107/04/2011 by Stan

Walton, Delius, Benjamin, Elgar, Coates and other British Composers: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/John Wilson (conductor), Andrew Haveron (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Town Hall, Cheltenham, 5.4.2011. (RJ)

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Categories Concert Reviews, UK Concerts Tags Cheltenham, Roger Jones
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