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PROM 68: Lack of Intensity (and Humour) in  Brahms Performances

11/09/201409/09/2014 by Geoff DIggines

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prom 68     Brahms,  Jorg Widmann:  Joshua Smith (flute), Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Most (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 7.9.2014

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PROM 66:Memorable Staged Version of Bach’s St Matthew Passion

08/09/201407/09/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC Prom 66 – Bach, St Matthew Passion: Soloists, Berlin Radio Choir; Choristers of Wells and Winchester Cathedrals; Berliner Philharmoniker/Sir Simon Rattle. Royal Albert Hall, London, 6.9.2014 (CC)

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PROM 64:Berlin Philharmonic Dazzles Audience with Rachmaninov and Stravinsky

11/09/201407/09/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Prom 64 – Rachmaninov, Stravinsky: Berliner Philharmoniker/Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 5.9.2014 (CC)

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PROM 63: Leading American Conductor Honoured at the Proms

23/09/201405/09/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Prom 63: Adams and Mahler: Timothy McAllister alto saxophone (Proms debut artist), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 4.9.2014. (JPr)

Prom 63 (c) BBC Chris Christodolou
Prom 63 (c) BBC Chris Christodolou

 

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English Touring Opera Take Haydn, Handel and Bach on Tour this Autumn

22/11/201405/09/2014 by John Quinn

 

English Touring Opera Take Haydn, Handel and Bach on Tour this Autumn

 

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PROM 59: A Magnificent Elektra at the Proms

10/09/201902/09/2014 by Mark Berry

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prom 59 – Strauss, Elektra: Soloists, BBC Singers (chorus master: Paul Wiegold), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 31.8.2014. (MB)

Prom 59 (C) BBC Chris Christodolou
Prom 59 (C) BBC Chris Christodolou

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PROM 58: Nina Stemme Excels in Deutsche Oper’s Superb Salome at the Proms

15/07/202531/08/2014 by Jim Pritchard

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prom 58, Richard Strauss, Salome: Soloists and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin / Donald Runnicles (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London 30.8.2014. (JPr)

Prom 58:(c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou
Prom 58 Salome © BBC/Chris Christodoulou

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PROM 56: Scriabin’s Vision Realised in Light as Well as Sound

11/09/201431/08/2014 by Robert Beattie

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prom 56. Holst, Schoenberg, Scriabin, Alexander Toradze (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 28.8.2014 (RB)

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