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Ensemble. Very Human - Carlo Boccadoro's chamber opera 'Shi', based on Matteo Ricci's Jesuit mission in China, impresses Giuseppe Pennisi
Anniversaries: Riccardo Muti; Milan Horvat; Jacopo Foroni; Antonio Vivaldi; Christopher Bunting; Johann Sebastian Bach
Festivals, competitions and masterclasses: El Jem International Festival of Symphonic Music (8 July-12 August); Eljem, TN; Ihlombe! South African Choral Festival (21-29 July); Cape Town, ZA; Ryedale Festival (14-30 July); North Yorkshire, UK; Petworth Festival (12-29 July); West Sussex, UK; Aspen Music Festival and School (29 June-20 August); Colorado, US; Savonlinna Opera Festival (7 July-4 August); Savonlinna, FI; Ohrid Summer Festival (12 July-20 August); Ohrid, MK; Grand Prix Thailand - tenth international choir festival (26-30 July); Pattaya, TH; Three Choirs Festival (22-29 July); Worcester, UK; Dubrovnik Summer Festival (10 July-25 August); Dubrovnik, HR; Opera Holland Park summer opera season (1 June-29 July); London, UK; Opéra de Baugé (27 July-6 August); Pays de la Loire, FR; Verbier Festival (21 July-6 August); Verbier, CH
Recent Articles
Punk Transformed? - Keith Bramich has lunch with Torsten Rasch, Roderic Dunnett and others, at the Three Choirs Festival
Altogether Invigorating - Gabriele Baldocci's Kabalevsky and Beethoven/Liszt at the BPSE Summer Festival impress Malcolm Miller
Ensemble. Emotional Extremes - Wagner, Duparc, Cecilia McDowall and Poulenc from Rachel Nicholls and Paul Plummer, reviewed by Mike Wheeler
Ensemble. A bitter-sweet 'Swallow' - 'La Rondine' at the Puccini Opera Festival impresses Giuseppe Pennisi
Ensemble. Piquant Contrast - Mike Wheeler listens to Schulhoff and Tchaikovsky from members of the Fibonacci Sequence
CD Spotlight. A Relative Newcomer - Temirzhan Yerzhanov plays Prokofiev, heard by the late Howard Smith. '... idiosyncratic, superbly delineated invention and precise harmonic intuition.'
Classical music news - A Three Choirs Romance; more ...
Ensemble. A Free-flowing Style - Mike Wheeler experiences the first professional opera specifically commissioned in Welsh
Ensemble. Asking Better Questions? - Schubert, Barber, Beethoven and Shostakovich from the Brodsky Quartet, heard by Mike Wheeler
Ensemble. A Keen Interest - A new 'Turandot' at the Puccini Festival, reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi
Ensemble. On the Verge of Greatness - Mozart's 'Lucio Silla' at Buxton, heard by Mike Wheeler
Ensemble. A Renewed International Chigiana Prize - Giuseppe Pennisi was in Siena for the Chigiana Award concert
Ensemble. Social Comedy - Britten's 'Albert Herring' at the Buxton Festival, reviewed by Mike Wheeler
Classical music news - Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini (1929-2017); more ...
Ensemble. Grippingly Staged - Verdi's 'Macbeth' at the Buxton Festival, reviewed by Mike Wheeler
Ask Alice - Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh tries out her new electric cello
CD Spotlight. American Flavours - Orchestral music by Aaron Copland impresses Gerald Fenech. 'Splendidly rousing playing from the Detroiters mercurially led by Leonard Slatkin, whose dedication to Copland's creations has a sense of purpose that is unerring throughout.'
Classical music news - Presteigne Festival 2017; BISYOC Intercultural Youth Orchestra Exchange; Seiji Yokoyama (1935-2017); more ...
Classical music news - Pierre Henry (1927-2017); more ...
Classical music news - Egil Monn-Iversen (1928-2017); more ...
CD Spotlight. Absolutely Superb - Choral music by Jan Jirásek, recommended by Geoff Pearce. 'There are some absolutely ravishing vocal passages, and I can't say I have ever heard music quite like this before.'
CD Spotlight. A Treasure Trove - Music for Palaeolithic bone flutes fascinates Gerald Fenech. '... the oldest evidence of musical creation anywhere in the world.'
Ensemble. Sensual and Immoral - A new production of 'Carmen' stirs a mini-International Controversy, by Giuseppe Pennisi
Ensemble. Britten and Owen - A double bill from Sinfonia Viva and The Lost Boys, reviewed by Mike Wheeler
CD Spotlight. Demons or Angels? - Death and the Maiden for orchestra, heard by the late Howard Smith. '... Falletta and her Buffalo team cannot be faulted ...'
Ensemble. 1917 and Dante's 'Divine Comedy' - Giuseppe Pennisi samples the two themes at this summer's Ravenna Festival
CD Spotlight. The Bad Boy of Music? - Orchestral music by George Antheil, enjoyed by Gerald Fenech. 'Karl-Heinz Steffens and his German troops are passionate advocates of Antheil's cause, and performances are full of engaging expressiveness and technical finesse.'
Classical music news - Russell Thomas; Karunamoy Goswami (1942-2017); Songs and Visions of Joy; more ...
Classical music news - Spotlight on Germany - July 2017 Newsletter (PDF, 920kb); Isadora Werkstatt 2017; more ...
Ensemble. Sex and Blood in Jerusalem - Giuseppe Pennisi reports on the new production of 'Salome' in Leipzig
CD Spotlight. Quite Haunting - American orchestral music impresses Geoff Pearce. '... impassioned and committed performances.'
Ensemble. Women's Voices - 'Die Frau ohne Schatten' at the Strauss Festival in Leipzig, reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi
A Sure Hand - Beate Toyka plays Schubert's last piano sonata, reviewed by Mike Wheeler
