Christopher Sallon

Christie’s Tanglewood Fairy Queen has some magic moments but ultimately fails to enchant

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United StatesUnited States Tanglewood Festival 2024 [5] – Purcell, The Fairy Queen: Soloists, Les Arts Florissants / William Christie (music director). Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, 18.7.2024. (CSa)

Georgia Burashko sings ‘Ye gentle spirits of the air, appear!’ © Hilary Scott

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Hail Fellows, well played: Youthful Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra comes of age in Shostakovich’s Fifth

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United StatesUnited States Tanglewood Festival 2024 [2] – Dvořák, Coleridge-Taylor and Shostakovich: Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra / Ross Jamie Collins, Na’zir McFadden, Andris Nelsons (conductors). Koussevitsky Music Shed. Lenox, 8.7.2024. (CSa)

Na’zir McFadden conducts the TMCO © Hilary Scott / BSO

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Eroica by Heart: Nicholas Collon’s Aurora defies concert conventions in an unforgettable and heartfelt way

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom R. Strauss, Beethoven: Tom Service (presenter), Aurora Orchestra / Nicholas Collon (conductor). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 8.5.2024. (CSa)

Nicholas Collon conducts the Aurora Orchestra in R. Strauss’s Metamorphosen © Julian Guidera

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