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All Seen and Heard Reviews (including London Proms) : July-December
2005
International Concerts and Recitals UK
Concerts and Recitals London
Promenade Concerts
Opera
R.Wagner,
Die Walküre: Soloists,
Det Kongelige Kapel, Michael Schønwandt, Operaen,
Copenhagen 26.12.2005 (BK)
Puccini, Manon Lescaut: (new
production) at
the Royal Opera Stockholm 10.12.2005 (GF)
Britten, ‘Billy Budd’: English National Opera, conductor Andrew
Litton, 3.12.2005 (ME)
PUCCINI:
La Rondine, Opera in three acts.Royal
Northern College of Music, Manchester, 3.12 2005 (RJF)
Tippett,
The Midsummer
Marriage: Sir Andrew Davis,
conductor, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Civic Opera House,
Chicago, 26.11.2005 (HS)
Beethoven, Leonore: Soloists; Chorus & Orchestra
of Chelsea Opera Group/Howard Williams, QEH, 26.11.2005
(CC)
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists,
Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Zubin Mehta, 19.11.2005 (JPr)
George Frederick Handel, Xerxes:
soloists,
English National Opera orchestra
and chorus/Noel Davies, London Coliseum, 19.11.2005
(ED)
Strauss,
Die Fledermaus: Royal College of Music
Opera Orchestra, Soloists, cond.
Michael Rosewell, directed
by Paul Curran, Britten Theatre, Royal College of
Music, 19.11.2005 (ME)
Giuseppe
Verdi, Un ballo
in maschera: soloists, orchestra and chorus of the Royal Opera House
Covent Garden/Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor, Royal
Opera House, 17.11.2005 (ED)
Verdi, Falstaff: English
Touring Opera, Northcott
Theatre, Exeter 15.11 2005 (BK)
Wagner,
Götterdämmerung:
soloists,
orchestra and chorus of the Staatstheater Wiesbaden/Marc
Piollet, conductor. Premiere on 13.11.1005 (SM)
Mozart, La finta semplice: Soloists & Orchestra
of Guildhall School of Music & Drama/Nicholas
Kok, 8.11.2005 (CC)
PUCCINI,
Madam Butterfly:
ENO
at the Coliseum, London, 5.11.2005 (AO)
Tippett, The Midsummer
Marriage:
soloists, orchestra and
chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden / Richard
Hickox, conductor, ROH, 31.10.2005 (ED)
WELSH
NATIONAL OPERA ON TOUR
North Wales Theatre, Llandudno.
October 18 - 22.10.2005 (RJF)
Richard
Strauss, Salome:
Soloists, English National
Opera, Kwamé
Ryan (conductor), Coliseum, 19.10.2005 (TJH)
Verdi,
Falstaff:
Metropolitan Opera, New
York and
Bizet,
Carmen:
Metropolitan Opera, New York, 15.10.2005
(HS)
Mozart, The Magic Flute (1st night of ‘Second’ cast):
English National Opera,
Soloists, cond. Michael
Rosewell, London Coliseum,
8.10.2005 (ME)
BEETHOVEN
Fidelio
(concert performance in
German) soloists; singers from the RSAMD; Scottish
Chamber Chorus and Orchestra/Sir Charles Mackerras,
Barbican Hall, 8.10.2005 (CC)
Lehàr,
The
Merry Widow:
(new production in English)
soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera,
Michal Klauza, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff 8.10.2005
(BK)
VERDI
Nabucco:
(concert performance in
English):
soloists, chorus and
Orchestra of Opera North / David Parry,
Lowry Theatre,
Salford
Quays. 6.10.2005
(RJF)
Poulenc,
The Carmelites:
Soloists,
English National Opera,
Paul Daniel, conductor, Coliseum, 5.10.2005 (ED)
John Adams,
Doctor Atomic
(world premiere) San Francisco Opera, Donald Runnicles,
conductor, 5.10. 2005 (HS)
Richard
Wagner, Siegfried
soloists, orchestra of
the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano,
Covent Garden, 2.10.2005 (JP)
Puccini,
La Fanciulla del West:
soloists,
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio
Pappano, Royal Opera, 1.10.2005 (BK)
Handel:
Rodelinda
San Francisco Opera, War Memorial Opera House,
San Francisco, 29.09.2005 (HS)
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
at
the Norwegian Opera, Oslo,
on 24.9.2005 (GF)
Bizet,
Carmen (concert performance):
soloists,
CBSO, Sakari Oramo, Symphony Hall; Birmingham,
22nd September 2005 (CT)
Mozart: The
Magic Flute,
soloists, English National
Opera, David Stern (cond),
Coliseum,
21 September, 2005
(TJH)
Carl
Nielsen:
Maskarade:
Soloists, Orchestra and
Chorus of the Royal Opera / Michael Schønwandt, conductor;
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 19 September, 2005
(ED)
Verdi, Don
Carlos
(new production premiere):
soloists,
Welsh National Opera orchestra and chorus, Carlo Rizzi,
17th September 2005 (BK)
Gerald Barry: The
Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
(World Stage Premiére of the RTÉ/ENO
co-commision), Petra von Kant: Stephanie Friede, Sidonie
von Grasenabb: Susan Bickley, Valerie von Kant: Kathryn
Harries, Gabriele von Kant: Barbara Hannigan, Karen
Thimm: Rebecca von Lipinski, Marlene: Linda Kitchen,
Richard Jones (director), André Ridder (conductor),
ENO at the Coliseum, London, 16 September, 2005
(AO)
Philip Glass: Waiting
for the Barbarians,
world premiere in Erfurt
Theatre on September 10, 2005 (SM)
Richard
Wagner, Das
Rheingold
at
the Royal Opera in
Stockholm,
10 September, 2005 (Premiere) (GF)
Gaetano
Donizetti:
Dom Sébastien,
Roi de Portugal
(in concert), Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal
Opera / Mark Elder, conductor, Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden, 10 September, 2005 (ED)
Giacomo PUCCINI:
Tosca
at
Dalhalla,
Sweden,
12 August, 2005 (GF)
‘Lucie
de Lammermoor’
Glimmerglass Opera
Festival: Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra and Chorus,
soloists, cond. Beatrice
Jona Affron,
August
1st 2005
(ME)
Giacomo PUCCINI: Turandot
at
Dalhalla, Sweden
5th August,
2005 (GF)
2005 BAYREUTH
FESTIVAL:
Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin
and Parsifal;
Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra,
Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany, 25th
– 29th July, 2005 (SM)
Wagner, 'The
24 Hour Ring'
Tiroler
Festspiele, Erl, Austria
- Soloists, Tiroler Festspiele Orchestra and Chorus,
Gustav Kuhn, 22nd to 24th July 2005 (BK)
VERDI,
Aida:
City of Manchester
Opera, The
Bruntwood Theatre, Royal
Northern College of Music, Manchester,
16 July 2005 (RJF)
Handel, Giulio
Cesare: Glyndebourne
Festival Opera, 14th July 2005 (H-T W)
Rossini,
La Cenerentola:
Glyndebourne
Festival Opera, 13th July 2005, (HT-W)
BRIAN
FERNEYHOUGH: Shadowtime,
An opera in seven acts,
Nicholas Hodges (piano/speaker),
Mats Scheidegger (guitar),
Neue
Vocalisten Stuttgart, Nieuw
Ensemble, Jurjen Hempel
(conductor), ENO at the Coliseum, London, 9 July,
2005 (AO)
Mozart,
‘Mitridate, Re di Ponto’
Orchestra of the Royal
Opera House, soloists, cond. Richard Hickox, Royal
Opera House, Covent Garden, 5 July 2005
(ME)
Verdi,
‘Otello’
Orchestra and
Chorus of the Royal Opera House, soloists, cond.
Antonio Pappano, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,
4 July 2005 (ME)
Rodgers
and Hammerstein, South Pacific:
Grange Park Opera, 3rd July
2005 (H-T W)
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International
Concerts and Festivals
Wagner,
Turnage, Mozart
at the Berwald Hall, Stockholm, Sweden, 10.12.2005
(GF)
Bach,
Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin: Idil
Biret (piano), Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya
Hall, Seattle, 6.12.2005 (BJ)
Bartók,
Dutilleux, Rachmaninoff: Leonidas Kavakos,
violin, New York Philharmonic, Iván Fischer, conductor, Avery Fisher Hall, New York City,
3.12.2995 (BH)
Honegger, Schumann,
Nielsen: Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo
Dudamel (conductor), Katrine
Gislinge (piano), Gävle
Concert Hall, Sweden, 2.12.2005 (GF)
Earl
Wild, 90th Birthday Celebration Recital: Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, New York
City, 29.11.2005 (JD)
Ligeti: The Oberlin Contemporary
Music Ensemble, Miller Theater, Columbia University,
New York City, 12.11.2005 (BH)
Beethoven, Schnittke, Shostakovich: Gidon Kremer, violin, Andrius
Zlabys, piano (offstage),
New York Philharmonic, Mikko
Franck, conductor, Avery Fisher Hall, New
York City, 10.11.2005 (BH)
Giacinto Scelsi, 100th Birthday Celebration:
FLUX Quartet, Miller Theatre,
Columbia University, New York City, 4.11.2005 (BH)
Mozart
and Bruckner:
Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, Music Director
and Conductor, Carnegie Hall, New York City.
3.11.2005 (BH)
Ivan Moravec
in New York: Janáček,
Debussy, Chopin; Carnegie Hall, New York City, 31.10.2005
(BH)
György Ligeti:
The Complete Piano Etudes: Christopher Taylor, Piano, Miller Theatre,
Columbia University, New York City, 29.10.2005 (BH)
Gubaidulina and Tchaikovsky: Gidon Kremer, violin,
San Francisco Symphony, Kurt Masur,
conductor, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco,
28.10.05 (HS)
Donaueschinger Musiktage 2005, 14 – 16 October reviewed
by John Warnaby
MacMillan,
Prokofiev, Brahms:
Midori (violin), New York
Philharmonic, Marin Alsop
(conductor), Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, 15.10.2005
(BH)
Hong
Kong Chinese Orchestra in New York: Guo
Yazhi, Guanzi,
Wong On-yuen, Huqin,
Yan Huichang, Artistic Director
and Principal Conductor, Avery Fisher Hall,
New York City, 12.10.2005 (BH)
Ives,
Foss, Carter, Gershwin: Dawn
Upshaw, Soprano, Jean-Yves Thibaudet,
Piano, Boston Symphony Orchestra, James Levine,
Music Director and Conductor, Carnegie Hall,
New York City, 10.10.2005 (BH)
Westport
Arts Center, The Mozart Project:
Frederic Chiu, piano;
Geoff Nuttall, violin; Alberto Parrini, cello, Seabury
Center, Westport, Connecticut, 8.10.2005 (CA)
LSO
IN NEW YORK (III): Vaughan Williams:
Symphony No. 6 in E minor (1944-47, rev.
1950), Walton: Symphony No. 1 (1931-35),
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, Conductor,
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, 2.10.2005
(BH)
Carter,
Mozart, R. Strauss:
Jonathan Biss, Piano, New York Philharmonic,
Lorin Maazel, Conductor, Avery
Fisher Hall, New York City, 1.10.2005 (BH)
LSO
IN NEW YORK (II): Sibelius: Pohjola’s
Daughter, Op. 19, and Kullervo,
Op. 7, Monica Groop
(Mezzo-soprano),
Raimo Laukka
(Baritone), Men from the London
Symphony Chorus, Joseph Cullen (Director),
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin
Davis, Avery Fisher Hall, New York City,
30.09.2005 (BH)
LSO
IN NEW YORK (I): Verdi: Messa da Requiem soloists, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis - Conductor,
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, 28.09.2005 (BH)
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 San Francisco Symphony,
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor. Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco,
28.09.2005 (HS)
Schoenberg,
Ravel, R Strauss: Magdalena Kozena
(mezzo), Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle,
Frankfurt, Alte Oper, 26.9.2005 (SM)
Philadelphia’s
Orchestral Season Begins: by
Bernard Jacobson
Chopin
and Mahler: Lang Lang, Piano,
New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel, Conductor,
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, 22 and 24.
9. 2005 (BH)
Sibelius
and Tchaikovsky:
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert
Blomstedt (cond), Oslo Concert Hall, Oslo, Norway,
23.9. 2005 (GF)
Paris
orchestras make “La Rentrée”:
September
2005 (FC)
Berlioz,
Bartók, Schubert: Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Robin Ticciati (conductor),
Gävle Concert Hall, Sweden, 17 September, 2005 (GF)
Copland,
Prokofiev, Dvorak: Midori, violin,
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson
Thomas, conductor, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco,
15 September, 2005 (HS)
Critical
Distance: counter)induction, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City, 9 September,
2005 (BH)
San
Francisco Symphony Opening Gala:
Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich,
Tchaikovsky, Yo Yo
Ma, cello, San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson
Thomas, conductor, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco,
7 September, 2005 (HS)
Mendelssohn
on Mull Festival 2005, June 27th – 2nd July, by John Warnaby
29th
St. Magnus Festival, Orkney, 17 – 22 June 2005 by John Warnaby
Lincoln
Center Festival 2005 (IV):
Unremixed: The Music of
Richard D. James, a.k.a. Aphex Twin, Alarm Will
Sound, The Allen Room, Time Warner Center, New York
City, 24 July, 2005 (BH)
Lincoln
Center Festival 2005 (III):
Icebreaker, The
Allen Room, Time Warner Center, New York City, 23
July, 2005 (BH)
Lincoln
Center Festival 2005 (II): Shadowtime (North
American premiere), Brian Ferneyhough,
Composer, Charles Bernstein, Libretto, Rose
Theatre at Time Warner Center, New York City, 21
July, 2005 (BH)
Lincoln
Center Festival 2005 (I): Ferneyhough,
New Juilliard Ensemble, Joel Sachs (conductor),
Paul Recital Hall, The Juilliard School, New York
City, 18 July, 2005 (BH)
ASPEN
FESTIVAL 2005 (X): Opera with Lucia
di Lammermoor
and Postcards from Latin America, Aspen, Colorado,
31 July, 2005 (HS)
ASPEN FESTIVAL
2005 (IX): Recital by Leon Fleisher
spices things up, Aspen, Colorado, 25 July, 2005
(HS)
ASPEN
FESTIVAL2005 (VIII): Thunderous Prokofiev,
problematic Strauss in Intermezzo, Aspen,
Colorado, 24 July 2005 (HS)
ASPEN
FESTIVAL 2005 (VII):
A tale of two premieres, Aspen,
Colorado, 22 July 2005 (HS)
ASPEN FESTIVAL 2005 (VI)
Chamber music outshines the big orchestra, Aspen, Colorado, 21 July 2005
(HS)
ASPEN FESTIVAL 2005 (V):
Corigliano Violin
Concerto "The Red Violin", Berlioz Le
corsaire Overture, Elgar
Variations on an Original Theme "Enigma",
Aspen Concert Orchestra, Michael Stern, Joshua Bell,
violin, Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Colorado, 15
July, 2005 (HS)
ASPEN FESTIVAL 2005 (IV): Gil Shaham
goes eclectic with friends;
Chamber music favors Beethoven, Aspen, Colorado,
15 July, 2005 (HS)
ASPEN FESTIVAL
2005 (III): Big Beethoven, warm Berg,
technicolor Shostakovich,
Aspen, Colorado, 11 July 2005 (HS)
ASPEN FESTIVAL
2005 (II): Strings attached: International
Sejong Soloists, Cio-Lang LIn, Kronos Quartet, Aspen, Colorado,
9 July 2005 (HS)
ASPEN FESTIVAL 2005 (I): Evelyn Glennie gets the
Spirit and Marin Alsop muscles up on Brahms; Aspen, Colorado, 3 July 2005 (HS)
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UK
Concerts and Recitals
A
Romanian Musical Adventure: Anda
Anastasescu, piano,
Wigmore Hall, London.
30.12.2005 (ED)
Haydn,
Bartók, Dvorák: András Schiff (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra/Uri
Segal, QEH, 20.12. 2005 (CC)
Bach,
‘Christmas Oratorio’ The
King’s Consort and Choir
cond. Robert King: Claire
Booth (soprano) Hilary Summers (alto) James Gilchrist
(tenor) David Wilson – Johnson
(bass)
Cadogan Hall,
17.12.2005 (ME)
Strauss:
Capriccio Prelude and Final Scene, Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders!, Four Last Songs, Dame Felicity
Lott (soprano), Bernard Haitink (conductor), Nash
Ensemble, Wigmore Hall, 17.12. 2005 (JPr)
Mozart:
Dieter Flury (flute),
Charlotte Balzereit (harp), Wiener Philharmoniker,
Zubin Mehta (conductor), Barbican Hall, 16.12.2005
(GD)
Elgar:
The Dream of Gerontius
Anne
Sofie von Otter (mezzo), David Rendall
(tenor), Alistair Miles (bass), London Symphony
Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
(conductor), Barbican, 11.12.2005 (JPr)
Mozart,
Stravinsky, Pärt: Katie Van Kooten (soprano)
Liora
Grodnikaite (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor),
Darren Jeffery (bass); Boris Garlitsky
(violin), Pieter
Schoeman (violin), London Philharmonic
Orchestra & Choir, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor),
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 10.12.2005 (AR)
A
Romanian Musical Adventure: Angela Rippon, narrator;
London Schubert Players / Florin Totan,
St. Peter’s Church, Notting Hill 10.12.2005 (ED)
Haydn,
Shostakovich, Bartók: Simon Trpceski
(piano); LPO/Vladimir Jurowski, QEH, 7.12.2005
(CC)
Johann
Sebastian Bach, Suites for Solo Cello:
No. 3 in C BWV 1009; No.
5 in C minor BWV1011’ No. 6 in D BWV 1012. Yo – Yo
Ma, Barbican Hall, 4.12.2005
(ME)
MAHLER
Symphony No.9: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří
Bĕlohlávek (conductor), Barbican, 3.12.2005
(JPr)
Brahms, Scriabin, Debussy:
Simon Trpceski (piano), QEH, 4.12.2005
(CC)
Handel,
‘Messiah’:
The
Sixteen,
The Symphony of Harmony and Invention, cond. Harry
Christophers. Sally Matthews (soprano) Michael
Chance (counter-tenor) John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Roderick Williams (bass), Barbican Hall, 2.12.2005
(ME)
Christmas
Is Come: Eighteenth Century Dance and West Gallery
Music from The
Mellstock
Band Chittlehampton Parish
Church,
Devon, 2.12.2005 (BK)
Brahms,
Bernstein, Tchaikovsky: James Ehnes (violin),
London Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor),
Barbican Hall, 1.12.2005 (GD)
Kirklees
Orchestral Concerts: Rachmaninov:
The Isle of the Dead, Prokofiev: Piano
Concerto No. 3,
Stravinsky:
Ballet
“Petrushka” (1947 version). Evgenia
Rubinova (piano), Orchestra of Opera North, Richard
Farnes (conductor), Huddersfield Town Hall, Wednesday
30.11.2005 (P Se)
Mozart & Shostakovich: Barbara Bonney (soprano),
PhilharmoniaOrchestra/Vladimir Ashkenazy,
QEH, 29.11.2005 (CC)
Schubert: Ian Bostridge
(tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Queen Elizabeth
Hall, London, 28.11.2005 (AO)
Haitink’s Beethoven (III): Gordan Nikolitch,
violin, Tim Hugh, cello, Lars Vogt, piano, London
Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor, Barbican, 26.11.2005 (TJH)
Boughton & Rooke Premières:
Ian
Boughton (baritone), Hitchin
Symphony Orchestra, Paul Adrian Rooke
conductor, Hitchin Town Hall, Hertfordshire, 26.11.2005
[PCW]
Mozart
– Symphony No. 38 in D, K504, Prague, Krasa
– Symphony for Small
Orchestra, Janacek
– Suite No. 3, Dvorak
– Violin Concerto
in A minor Op. 53, Diana Moore, (mezzo soprano),Northern
Sinfonia Orchestra conducted by Thomas Zehetmair
(vln) Hall 1, The Sage,
Gateshead, 25.11. 05 (JP)
Ravel
and Mahler:
City
of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo, Symphony
Hall, Birmingham
24.11.05 (CT)
Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Brahms: Denis
Matsuev (piano), St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra,
Yuri Temirkanov (conductor); Barbican Hall, 23.11.2005
(GD)
Mozart Symphony 40 in
G minor and Rossini Stabat Mater:
London Philharmonic Orchestra / London
Philharmonic Choir / Paolo Olmi
conductor, QEH, London 23.11.05 (ED)
Haitink’s Beethoven II: London
Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink,
Barbican, 21.11.2005 (TJH)
Mahler,
Seventh Symphony: Philharmonia
Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (Conductor), Queen
Elizabeth Hall 21.11.2005 (JPr)
Schubert,
‘Die schöne Müllerin’ Thomas Quasthoff,
Charles Spencer, Wigmore Hall, 20.11.2005 (ME)
28th
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 18 –
27 November 2005, reviewed by John
Warnaby
Haitink’s Beethoven I: Frank Peter
Zimmermann, violin, London Symphony Orchestra,
Bernard Haitink, conductor,
Barbican, 16.11.2005 (TJH)
Bartok and Beethoven: Richard Goode
(piano), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer
(conductor), Barbican Hall, 11.11.2005 (GD)
Discover
Tchaikovsky:
Vadim Repin
(violin), London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson
Thomas (conductor), Barbican Centre, 10.11.2005
(AR)
Bartok – Romanian Dances, The Wooden Prince, Beethoven
– Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor),
Richard Goode (piano)
Ivan Fischer conducting The Budapest Festival
Orchestra, Hall 1, The Sage, Gateshead, 9.11.2005
(JP)
‘Senesino:
Farinelli’s Greatest Rival, Handel’s Muse’:
Andreas Scholl, Accademia
Bizantina, dir. Ottavio
Dantone, Barbican Hall, 8.11.2005 (ME)
Bartok, Miraculous Mandarin Ballet Suite, Mahler
No. 7
Philharmonia Orchestra,
Salonen, Hall 1, The
Sage, Gateshead,
4th November 2005 (JP)
Mussorgsky,
Prokofiev, Stravinsky: François-Frédéric Guy, piano, Philharmonia
Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor, Queen
Elizabeth Hall, 3.11.2005 (TJH)
Debussy, Boulez, Ravel: Elizabeth Atherton (soprano),
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony
Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (conductor), Barbican
Hall, 4.11.2005 (AO)
Purcell,
Crumb, Previn, Berg, Schumann:
Renée Fleming, Hartmut Höll, Barbican Hall, 03.11.2005
(ME)
Varése, Lang/Greenaway, Andriessen: London
Sinfonietta, Synergy
Vocals, Jurjen Hempel
(conductor), Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 29.10.2005
(AO)
Mozart and
Schoenberg: Mitsuko Uchida
(piano/director), Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Alexander
Janiczek (director,
Schoenberg), Barbican Hall, 29.10.2005 (CC)
Glinka, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky: Pieter Wispelwey
(cello), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily
Sinaisky (conductor), Queen Elizabeth Hall, 28.10.2005
(AR)
Xenakis
– Architect in Sound: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, October 2005 (TJH)
Debussy,
Ravel and Stravinsky: Debussy, Jeux: Poème
Dansé; Ravel, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in
G; Stravinsky, Petrushka
(1911 version), Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra/Charles
Dutoit, Queen Elizabeth
Hall, 25.10.2005 (ED)
Britten,
Mahler, Brahms: Ian Bostridge
(tenor), London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding,
(conductor), Barbican Centre, 23.10.2005 (AO)
Carter,
Beethoven, R. Strauss & Stravinsky: Emanuel
Ax (piano), BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/Jirí
Belohlávek, Barbican
Hall, 22.10.2005 (CC)
Debussy,
Ravel and Stravinsky: Debussy,
Jeux: Poème Dansé; Ravel,
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G; Stravinsky,
Petrushka (1911 version). Jean-Philippe
Collard (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra/Charles
Dutoit. Cheltenham Town Hall, 21st October 2005
(JQ)
Oxford Lieder Festival: Nina Bennet (soprano), Dominic Grier
(conductor), Sequenza, New College Chapel Antechamber,
Oxford, 20.10.2005 (AO)
Mahler, ‘Resurrection’ Symphony: Sally
Matthews (Soprano), Karen
Cargill (Mezzo), Various Choruses, Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, Gilbert Kaplan (Conductor), Royal Albert
Hall, 18.10.2005 (JPr)
Gergiev’s
Shostakovich (II): Mussorgsky
(orch. Shostakovich) and Shostakovich, London Symphony Orchestra/Valéry Gergiev,
Barbican Hall, 16.10.2005 (CC)
Beethoven, Adelaide;
Britten, ‘Winter words’; Brahms, Lieder to poems
by Daumer: Robert Murray (tenor) Lindy Tennent-Brown (piano),
Wigmore Hall, 16.10. 2005 (ME)
Britten,
Purcell and Dowland:
Scottish Ensemble,
Toby Spence (tenor), Jonathan Morton (director),
Martin Owen (horn) Wigmore Hall, 14.10.05
(EM)
J.S.
Bach,
Cello Suites 1–6, BWV1007
– 10012,
Jian Wang (cello),
Hall 2, The Sage, Gateshead, 14 , 15, 16.10 .2005
(JP).
Gergiev’s
Shostakovich (I): Schumann (orch. Shostakovich)
Cello Concerto No 1 and Shostakovich
Symphony No 8, Johannes Moser (cello),
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor),
Barbican Centre, 15.10.2005 (AR)
Bach,
Weimar Cantatas:
Purcell Quartet, Emma
Kirkby, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter
Harvey, Wigmore Hall,
15.10. 2005 (ME)
Wagner,
Schoenberg, Beethoven: Susan Bullock (soprano), BBC
Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson (conductor),
Barbican Centre, London, 14.10.2005 (AO)
Bruckner,
Te Deum
and Symphony No.9:
Anna Leese
(soprano), Anna Grevelius (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), Håkan Ekenäs (baritone), RCM Symphony
Orchestra and Chorus, Bernard Haitink,
Royal College of Music, 14.10.2005 (MB)
Handel,
Vivaldi and Sammartini:
Viktoria Mullova with 'Il Giardino
Armonico' conducted by Giovanni Antonini.
The Sage,
Gateshead, 12.10.2005 (JP)
Shostakovich,
Dvorák, Bartók: Leonidas Kavakos
(violin); London Symphony Orchestra/Andrey Boreyko,
Barbican Hall, 06.10.2005 (CC)
Royal
College of Music String Player of the Year:
Wigmore Hall, 3.10.2005 (ED)
Kirklees
Orchestral Concerts: Beethoven:
Coriolan Overture, Poulenc: Organ Concerto, Beethoven:
Symphony No. 9 “Choral”. soloists, Huddersfield
Choral Society, Orchestra of Opera North, Richard
Farnes, Huddersfield Town Hall, Thursday 29.09.2005
(P Se)
Elgar,
Schumann, Walton: Mitsuko
Uchida (piano), LSO/Sir Colin Davis, Barbican
Hall, 23 October, 2005 (CC)
Mahler Symphony No.6: The Surrey Mahler Orchestra, conducted by Keith
Willis, The Anvil, Basingstoke, 11 September 2005
(JP)
Schubert: Christian Gerhaher
(baritone), Gerold Huber
(piano) Wigmore Hall,
14 September, 2005 (AO)
Handel,
‘Zadok the Priest’ -‘Arrival
of the Queen of Sheba’- Bach, Violin Concerto in A minor: Mozart,
‘Ave Verum Corpus: Haydn,
Cello Concerto in C: Britten, ‘St Nicolas Cantata.’ Dulwich Sinfonia Orchestra and Chorus; Dulwich
College Preparatory School Choir; Sydenham
High School Girls’ Choir, cond.
Michael Spencer, Ian Bostridge, Simon Standage, Jamie
Walton, St. John’s Smith Square, 11 September,
2005 (ME)
Opening
night of the 2005/6 Season at the Wigmore
Hall: Schumann:
Lieder to Texts by Heinrich Heine,
Ian Bostridge, Graham
Johnson, Wigmore Hall,
10 September, 2005 (ME)
Wagner,
Tristan und Isolde: Bamberg
Symphony Orchestra,
Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Soloists, conducted
by Jonathan Nott, Edinburgh International Festival,
Usher Hall, 30 August 2005 (JP
Edinburgh Festival 2005 at the Usher Hall:
Gustav Mahler
Jugendorchester, 26 August, and the opening Bamberg Symphony
Orchestra concert, 29 August, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
(JP)
LONDON
PROMENADE CONCERTS
PROM
1: Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Elgar, Tippett
Soloists,
BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/Sir Roger
Norrington, Royal Albert
Hall, 15 July, 2005 (CC)
PROM
3 : Purcell, 'The Fairy Queen'
Gabrieli
Consort and Players, dir. Paul McCreesh.
Royal Albert Hall, 17 July 2005 (ME)
PROM
4: Wagner,
‘Die Walküre’
Soloists, Orchestra of the
Royal Opera House, dir. Antonio Pappano, 18 July,
2005 (ME)
PROM 6: Musgrave,
Rachmaninoff, Nielsen Stephen
Hough, piano, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä,
conductor, Royal Albert Hall, 20 July 2005 (TJH)
PROM
8: Stravinsky, MacMillan,
Ravel
Soloists, BBC Singers, BBC
Philharmonic/Gianandrea
Noseda, James MacMillan, RAH, 21
July, 2005 (CC)
PROM
9: Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3
in G major, K216, Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C#
minor, Christian Tetzlaff, violin, Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph
von Dohnányi, conductor,
Royal Albert Hall, 22 July, 2005 (TJH)
PROM
13: Elgar,
‘The Dream of Gerontius’ Soloists,
Hallé, Mark Elder, conductor, Royal Albert
Hall, 24 July 2005 (ED)
PROM 14:
Tippett,
The Vision of St Augustine, Shostakovich, Symphony
No. 10,
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Elisabeth Atherton (soprano), BBC National Orchestra
of Wales, Richard Hickox
(conductor), 25 July 2005 (AO)
PROM 15:
Lyadov,
Baba-Yaga, The Enchanted Lake, Kikimora;
Oliver Knussen,: Whitman
Settings, Detlev Glanert,: Theatrum bestiarum (world premiere);
Stravinsky, The Fairy's Kiss;
Claire Booth (soprano), BBC
Symphony Orchestra, John Storgårds
(conductor), 26 July 2005 (AO)
PROM
16 and PROM 17: CBSO/Sakari
Oramo (7pm) and Manchester Camerata/Douglas Boyd (10pm), Royal
Albert Hall, 27 July, 2005 (TJH)
PROM
18: Adams, Corigliano,
Prokofiev, Joshua Bell (violin), Bournemouth Symphony
Orchestra, Marin Alsop,
Royal Albert Hall, 28 July, 2005 (MB)
PROM 19: Tchaikovsky,
Shostakovich, Prokofiev Sergey
Khachatryan (violin);
BBC Philharmonic/Vassily
Sinaisky, Royal Albert Hall, 29 July, 2005 (CC)
PROM 23: Hector
Berlioz:
Roméo
et Juliette, dramatic
symphony after Shakespeare’s tragedy, Soloists,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan
Volkov, Royal Albert
Hall, 31 August 2005 (ED)
PROM
24: Sibelius, Abrahmsen, Brahms, Nelson
Freire, piano, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Ilan Volkov, conductor, Royal Albert Hall, 1 August,
2005 (TJH)
PROM
27: Vir, Shankar, a selection of Ragas Ravi
& Anoushka Shankar; BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jurjen
Hempel, Royal Albert
Hall, 3 August, 2005 (CC)
PROM
30: Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Sibelius,
Anne
Sofie
von Otter, mezzo-soprano, Gothenburg Symphony
Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel,
conductor, Royal Albert Hall, 5 August 2005 (TJH)
PROM
33:
Berg, Three Pieces for Orchestra;
Mahler, Das klagende
Lied, Gwynneth Ann Jeffers
(soprano), Michelle de Young (mezzo-soprano),
Johan Botha (tenor) Mark Delavan (baritone), The Boys of Kings College
Choir, Cambridge, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony
Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor),
Royal Albert Hall, 7 August 2005 (AO)
PROM
35: Lambert, Coleridge-Taylor, Stanford and Elgar,
Mark Stone (baritone), Phillipe Graffin (violin),
BBC Concert Orchestra/Barry Wordsworth, Royal
Albert Hall, 11 August, 2005 (ED)
PROM
36: Weber,
Chin, Bruckner, Christiane
Oelze (soprano); Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Kent Nagano, Royal Albert Hall,
London, 10 August, 2005 (CC)
PROM
37: Brahms, Beethoven,
Wagner, Hartmann,
Gianluca Cascioli (piano); BBC Symphony
Orchestra/Ingo Metzmacher,
Royal Albert Hall, 11 August, 2005 (CC)
PROM
38: Sørensen: The Little Mermaid (world premiere), Grieg: Piano Concerto
in A minor, Op. 16, Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, Op.
50, Inger Dam-Jensen,
soprano, Gert Henning-Jensen,
tenor, Lars Vogt, piano, Danish National Girls
Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas
Dausgaard, conductor,
Royal Albert Hall, 12 August, 2005 (TJH)
PROM
39: Mendelssohn,
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Overture and Incidental
Music: Beethoven,
Symphony no. 5, Mary Nelson, Victoria Simmonds,
Methodist College Belfast Girls’ Choir, Ulster
Orchestra, Thierry Fischer, conductor, Royal Albert
Hall, 13 August, 2005
(ME)
PROM 41:
Mozart, Sinfonia
concertante K297b and Mahler, Symphony No.1 in D major, West-Eastern
Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, Royal Albert
Hall, 14 August 2005 (MB)
PROM
42: Tchaikovsky,
Iolanta Soloists; Chorus & Orchestra of WNO/Vassily Sinaisky, Royal Albert Hall,
15 August, 2005 (CC)
PROM
44: Berg and Mahler, Christine Schäfer
(soprano); Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Danielle
Gatti, Royal Albert
Hall, 17 August, 2005 (CC)
PROM
46: Lilburn,
Mahler, Sibelius, Jonathan
Lemalu, bass-baritone, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James
Judd, conductor, Royal Albert Hall, 18 August,
2005 (TJH)
PROM
47: Tippett and Beethoven,
London Symphony Orchestra,
Sir Colin Davis, conductor, Royal Albert Hall,
19 August, 2005 (TJH)
PROM
49: Gubaidulina
and Beethoven, soloists &
choirs, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Masur (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, 20 August, 2005 (AN)
PROM
50: Novak, Schumann and Stravinsky,
Llyr Williams (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek
conductor, Royal Albert Hall, 21 August, 2005
(ED)
PROM
51: Ravel and Shostakovich, Hélène
Grimaud, piano, London
Symphony Orchestra/Bernard
Haitink, conductor,
Royal Albert Hall, 22 August, 2005 (ED)
PROM
52: Handel,
‘Julius Caesar’ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Orchestra
of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie,
Royal Albert Hall, 23 August, 2005 (ME)
PROM
53:
Ravel and Walton, Bernarda
Fink (soprano), European Union Youth Orchestra,
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor), Royal Albert
Hall, 24 August, 2005 (AO)
PROM
56: Brahms and Liszt Nikolaj Znaider,
violin, BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea
Noseda, conductor, Royal Albert Hall, 26 August, 2005 (CC)
PROM
57: Rossini,
Debussy, Esa-Pekka Salonen,
Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakov, World Orchestra for Peace, Valery Gergiev (conductor),
Royal Albert Hall, 27 August 2005 (AR)
PROM
58: Verdi Requiem,
soloists, BBC Symphony Chorus, City of Birmingham
Symphony Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea
Noseda, conductor, Royal
Albert Hall, 28 August, 2005 (ED)
PROM
59:
Wagner,
Beethoven, Richard Strauss;
Emanuel Ax (piano), Tonhalle
Orchestra Zurich, David Zinman (conductor): Prom
59: Royal Albert Hall, 29 August 2005 (AR).
PROM
60: Mahler, Symphony No.
3 Yvonne Naef, (mezzo-soprano) The
Cleveland Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus,
Franz Welser-Möst (conductor) Royal Albert Hall,
30th August 2005 (AO)
PROM
61: Stravinsky, Boulez, Messiaen
Stravinsky : Symphonies of Wind instruments (1920-1)
Boulez : e e cummings
ist der Dichter Stravinsky
: The dove descending breaks the air, Three sacred
Slavonic choruses Messiaen : Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine (AO)
PROM
62: Beethoven:
Missa Solemnis (Mass
in D): Soloists, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus , The Cleveland Orchestra /
Franz Welser-Möst,
conductor. (ED)
PROM
63 and PROM 65: Mahler,
Lutoslawski, Brahms,
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, conductor, Royal
Albert Hall, 1-2 September, 2005 (TJH
PROM
66: Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Vaughan
Williams Symphony No.6 in E minor Juilliard
and Royal Academy
of Music Orchestras
/ Sir Colin Davis,
conductor (ED)
PROM
67: Zemlinsky : Die Seejungfrau,
Brahms : A German
Requiem, Marie Arnet (Soprano) Simon
Keenlyside (Baritone) BBC Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia
Chorus, BBC Symphony Chorus, James Conlon (conductor)
Royal Albert Hall, 4th September 2005
(AO)
PROM
71:
Haydn,
Berg, Stravinsky:
Katarina Dalayman
(soprano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta
(conductor), Royal Albert Hall, 7 September, 2005
(AR)
PROM 72:
Bruckner, Symphony No.8 in
C minor (ed. Nowak), Wiener Philharmoniker, Christoph
Eschenbach (conductor),
Royal Albert Hall, 8 September, 2005 (MB)
 Last
Night of the Proms: Andreas
Scholl, counter-tenor, John Williams, guitar,
Paul Lewis, piano, Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano,
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony
Orchestra, Paul Daniel, conductor, Royal Albert
Hall, 10 September, 2005 (TJH)
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