New: GMJO (Jordan / Shostakovich etc.), ECO (Watkins / Britten etc.)

Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester - Orchestra website

Conductor: Philippe Jordan

Wagner: Rienzi - Overture ☆
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major ☆☆
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Pf)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor ☆☆

Concertmaster: Yulia Kopylova

AUDIO (for 6 days?)
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BBC Proms, 2013 Season, Prom 56 (24 August 2013)

English Chamber Orchestra - Orchestra website

Conductor: Paul Watkins

Purcell, arr. Britten: Chacony
Lutosławski: Paroles tissées
Ben Johnson (T)
Berkeley, Britten, Oldham, Searle, Tippett & Walton: Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (Sellinger's Round)
Tansy Davies & John Woolrich: Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (Sellinger's Round) - new variations (BBC commission: world premiere)
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
Ben Johnson (T)
Richard Watkins (Hr)

AUDIO (for 6 days?)
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BBC Proms, 2013 Season, PSM 4 (24 August 2013)


☆ - ☆☆☆: My personal impression

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New: RPO (Nézet-Séguin / Prokofiev etc.), WPO (Wit / Shostakovich etc.)

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra - Orchestra website

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Tchaikovsky: Fantasy-Overture 'Romeo and Juliet' ☆
Wagner (orch. Mottl): Wesendonck-Lieder ☆☆
Anna Caterina Antonacci (S)
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major ☆☆☆

AUDIO (for 6 days?)
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BBC Proms, 2013 Season, Prom 53 (22 August 2013)

Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra - Orchestra website

Conductor: Antoni Wit

Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra ☆☆
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major ☆☆
Alexander Melnikov (Pf)
Panufnik: Tragic Overture ☆
Panufnik: Lullaby ☆
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 in B minor ☆☆

AUDIO (for 6 days?)
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BBC Proms, 2013 Season, Prom 55 (23 August 2013)


☆ - ☆☆☆: My personal impression

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New: LSO (Harding / Elgar etc.), BBCS (Oramo / Elgar etc.), SPP (Casadesus / Ravel etc.)

London Symphony Orchestra - Orchestra website

Conductor: Daniel Harding

Tippett: The Mask of Time - Fanfare no. 5
Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra
Britten: Les illuminations
Ian Bostridge (T)

Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E flat major

AUDIO (for 5 days?)
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BBC Proms, 2013 Season, Prom 51 (20 August 2013)

 

BBC Symphony Orchestra - Orchestra website

Conductor: Sakari Oramo

Param Vir: Cave of Luminous Mind (BBC commission: world premiere)

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor
Lisa Batiashvili (Vn)
Bantock: Celtic Symphony
Elgar: 'Enigma' Variations

AUDIO (for 6 days?)
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BBC Proms, 2013 Season, Prom 52 (21 August 2013)

 

St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra - Orchestra website

Conductor: Jean-Claude Casadesus

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod (Orchestral version)
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Khatia Buniatishvili (Pf)
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Ravel: Bolero
Bizet: L'Arlésienne, suite for orchestra No. 2, Farandole

VIDEO (for several months?)
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Annecy Classic Festival (20 August 2013)


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