Cheltenham Music Festival 2011 : Premieres by Venables, Bray, Butler, Sierra, Berkeley, Phibbs, Kendall, Higgins, Rushton. (RJ)
Roger Jones
Cheltenham Music Festival 2011 – A menacing Boesch and a demented Spence stun audiences
Loewe, Schubert, Mahler : Florian Boesch (baritone) with Roger Vignoles, Pittville Pump Room, 30.6.2011 (RJ)
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Schumann, Janáček : Toby Spence (tenor), Helen Sherman (mezzo-soprano) with Julian Milford (piano). Pittville Pump Room, 3.7.2011 (RJ)
Cheltenham 2011 :A Trio of Song Cycles opens the music festival
Fauré, Vaughan Williams, Venables : Caroline MacPhie, Allan Clayton, Elias String Quartet, Tom Poster (piano), Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, 29.6.2011 (RJ)
In Praise of Amateur Opera – Bel Canto Opera’s La Traviata
Verdi, La Traviata: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of Bel Canto Opera, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, 16.6.2011. (RJ)
Longborough Festival Opera’s Così with a modern slant
Mozart, Così fan tutte: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Longborough Festival Opera/Gianluca Marcianò (conductor), Longborough, 16.6.2011 (RJ)
Dame Gillian Weir puts Cirencester’s new organ through its paces
Peeters, Liszt, CPE Bach, Dupré, Franck, Buxtehude, Ives, Bovet, Mushel : Dame Gillian Weir, Church of St John the Baptist, Cirencester, 18.6.2011 (RJ)
Tony Palmer film sheds new light on the composer of The Planets
Tony Palmer film sheds new light on the composer of The Planets
Chipping Campden Festival (3) -Two Quintets and a Trio
Mozart, Beethoven : Borodin Quartet with Michael Collins, St James’ Church, 13.5.2011
Beethoven, Rachmaninov : Benedetti Trio, St James’ Church, 16.5.2011 (RJ)