United 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: Leading American Conductor Honoured at the Proms
Jim Pritchard
PROM 58: Nina Stemme Excels in Deutsche Oper’s Superb Salome at the Proms
United 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 Chamber Music (6): A Rainy Bank Holiday Monday Brightened by Proms Chamber Music
Proms Chamber Music 6: Mozart, Mahler, Strauss,Louis Schwizgebel (piano), Katarzyna Budnik-Gałązka (viola), Marcin Zdunik (cello), Tomasz Januchta (double bass), Royal String Quartet, Cadogan Hall, London, 25.8.14. (JPr)
Celebrating Cole Porter 50 Years On
United Kingdom Cole Porter, Anything Goes: Maria Friedman, Jenna Russell, Graham Bickley, Clive Rowe, the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Royal Academy of Music Musical Theatre Company Chorus / Richard Balcombe (musical director). Cadogan Hall, London 20.8.2014. (JPr)
PROM 40: Distinguished Schubert and Mahler from Bernard Haitink and the LSO
United Kingdom Prom 40: Schubert and Mahler: Camilla Tilling (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 16.8.2014. (JPr)
Glyndebourne’s Low-key Traviata Fails to Convince
United Kingdom Glyndebourne Festival 2014 – Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder (conductor). Filmed ‘live’ at the Glyndebourne Theatre and seen at the Barbican Cinema, London, 10.8.2014. (JPr)
Welcome Return to London for Mariinsky Ballet
United Kingdom Apollo & A Midsummer Night’s Dream (choreography by George Balanchine): Dancers of Marriinsky Ballet, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, National Youth Choirs GB Chamber Choir, Kiandra Howarth (soprano) and Anush Hovhannisyan (soprano) / Gavriel Heine (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 8.8.2014. (JPr)
Osipova and Vasiliev Explore New Territory
United Kingdom Solo for Two – Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev: Choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Ohad Naharin and Arthur Pita. London Coliseum, London, 6.8.2014. (JPr)
