United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival [4] – Schubert: Roderick Williams (baritone), Roderick Williams (piano), St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford 23.10.2017. (CR)
Curtis Rogers
Mahler, Zemlinsky, and Korngold at the Oxford Lieder Festival
United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival [3] – Gustav & Alma Mahler, Zemlinsky, Korngold: Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Eugene Asti (piano), St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford 20.10.2017. (CR)
Strauss on the Silver Screen: OAE Accompany Wiene’s Cinematic Adaptation of Der Rosenkavalier
United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival [2] – Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier (silent film): Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Thomas Kemp (conductor), Town Hall, Oxford 15.10.2017. (CR)
A Suitably Unnerving and Mysterious Pierrot Lunaire from Privett and Shadwell Opera
United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival [1] – Schoenberg: Alice Privett (soprano), Musicians of Shadwell Opera / Finnegan Downie Dear (conductor), New College Chapel, Oxford, 14.10.2017. (CR)
Gergiev Crosses National Boundaries with the Oxford Philharmonic
United Kingdom Rossini, Stravinsky, Mendelssohn: Roman Simovic (violin), Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Valery Gergiev (conductor), Town Hall, Oxford, 13.10.2017. (CR)
Spirited Performances by Bronfman and the Oxford Philharmonic of Schumann & Brahms
United Kingdom Oxford Philharmonic’s Piano Festival [2] – Schumann & Brahms: Yefim Bronfman (piano); Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra/Marios Papadopoulos, Oxford Philharmonic Piano Festival, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 6.8.2017. (CR)
Kim Delivers Nuanced and Memorable Beethoven and Liszt at Oxford Piano Festival
United Kingdom Oxford Philharmonic Piano Festival [1] – Beethoven, Liszt: Sunwook Kim (piano), Oxford Philharmonic Piano Festival. Holywell Music Room, Oxford 4.8.2017. (CR)
Garsington’s Season Closes on a High Note with Panufnik’s Silver Birch
United Kingdom Roxanna Panufnik, Silver Birch (world premiere): Soloists, Garsington Opera Orchestra & Foley Artists, Garsington Opera Adult, Military, Youth and Primary Companies choruses / Douglas Boyd, Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 28.7.2017. (CR)
(c) John Snelling