This Week at Askonas Holt

Mark Stone performs Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony with the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra.

Kirill Gerstein performs both Mendelssohn piano concerti with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Concert's takes place at City Recital Hall, Sydney.

Trevor Pinnock gives a solo harpsichord recital at Binham Priory and St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh. His programme includes works by Handel, Purcell and Haydn.

Thomas Zehetmair opens the Northern Sinfonia's celebratory 50th anniversary season at The Sage with the first of their Beethoven Symphony cycle concerts. Thomas direct-plays the Egmont Overture, Beethoven Violin Concerto and Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 3.

Robert Murray sings Harry in the final performance of 'Fanciulla del West' at the Royal Opera House, Covent. He also gives a recital with Elizabeth Atherton & Iain Burnside at the opening festival of King's Place, London.

Clara Mouriz gives a recital at the Oxford Lieder Festival with Julius Drake.

Arild Remmereit returns to the RTÉ Dublin to conduct the Elgar Cello Concerto with cellist Natalie Clein.

Kate Royal gives a lunchtime recital at the Wigmore Hall accompanied by Malcolm Martineau.

Cedric Tiberghien performs two recitals of Bartok and Brahms. The first at Engelberg monastery in Switzerland and the other at the WDR Radiohouse in Cologne, Germany.

Amanda Roocroft sings Desdemona in further performances in the current run of 'Otello' for Welsh National Opera at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff.

Anna Bonitatibus performs the role of Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Baden-Baden Herbstfestspiele.

Imogen Cooper begins a series of concerts in Tokyo, starting with a solo Schubert recital and two performanaces of the Schumann Piano Concerto with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Litton.

Soprano Ekaterina Siurina sings Gilda in Verdi's 'Rigoletto' with L'Opera National de Paris Bastille.

Indra Thomas sings Amelia in Verdi's 'un ballo in maschera' in Madrid

Christianne Stotijn performs Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde at the Royal Festival Hall on October 1st as part of her European tour with the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

Daniel Harding conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in performances in Baden-Baden Festspeilhaus, and the Alte Oper Frankfurt.

Pieter Wispelwey performs a duo recital with Paolo Giacometti (piano) at KRO Mediapastoraat, Hilversum with live broadcast on Radio 4 (also broadcast on their webcast - www.radio4.nl).

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Gulbenkian Orchestra in a programme to include Mozart and Strauss. Concerts take place at the Gulbenkian Grand Auditorium, Lisbon.

William Dazeley sings Wintergreen in Gershwin's 'Of Thee I Sing' with Opera North.

In her Brazilian debut, mezzo Irina Tchistyakova sings 'Alexander Nevsky' at the Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro.

Thomas Allen gives a recital in the Teatro Principal de Santiago de Compostela with Roger Vignoles.

Susan Gritton and Joshua Ellicott perform Handel's L'Allegro at the Vredenburg Utrecht with Nederlandse Programma Stichting.

Christine Brewer appears twice in London this week. She sings the Beethoven Missa Solemnis with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall on Friday and then the Wagner Society presents "An Evening with Christine Brewer" on Sunday.

26 September, 2008