This Week at Askonas Holt

Xuefei Yang gives masterclasses and a recital at the Veria Guitar Festival, Her programme includes works by Albeniz, Stephen Goss, Granados and Tarrega.

Thomas Zehetmair performs the Elgar Violin Concerto with the Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Mark Elder, at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

Franck Ollu and Gustavo Dudamel conduct the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in a joint concert of George Benjamin's 'Antara' and other contemporary works, with Beethoven Symphony No. 9.

Dorothea Roschmann, Magdalena Kozena and Malcolm Martineau give Lieder recitals at the Dresden Semperoper and La Monnaie, Brussels.

Peter Donohoe performs the complete Rachmaninov Piano Concertos with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Wing-Sei Yip.

Kirill Gerstein performs Shostakovich Piano concerto No.2 with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala the conductor is Maestro Bychkov. Fans of Kirill Gerstein can watch a live stream feed of his concert with Semyon Bychkov at the famed Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy on 28. April 2008 featuring the 2nd piano concerto of Dmitri Schostakovitch by visiting http://www.artemisinformatica.com/scala/index.html or http://www.filarmonica.it/ and click on the icon on the righthand side entitled "Fiilharmonica on Air".

Following her concert tour of Holland with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta in which she received the Dutch Music Prize, Christianne Stotijn returns to the recital platform when she presents a programme of Schumann, Grieg and Sibelius at the Concertgebouw De Vereeniging in Nijmegan.

Soprano Patrizia Ciofi loses her head when she sings the doomed Mary Queen of Scots in the new production of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda at the Opera Royal de Wallonie in Liege. The production is conducted by Luciano Acocella.

John Mark Ainsley gives a recital at Frankfurt Opera as part of his recital tour with Roger Vignoles.

Louis Langrée returns to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to conduct a programme including Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante.

Christine Rice as Ariadne and Rebecca Bottone as First Innocent continue performances of Birtwistle's 'The Minotaur' at the Royal Opera House.

Natalie Clein gives a recital at the Cadogan Hall with pianist Kathy Stott. Their programme, entitled 'Friends and Inspiration', includes Britten, Shostakovich, Bridge and Elgar.

Lisa Milne performs Mozart concert arias with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and conductor Robin Ticciati at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall and at the Is Sanat Concert Hall in Istanbul.

Ronan Collett gives a concert at the Wigmore Hall with the Gabrieli Consort and Players.

Emanuel Ax performs Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and Roger Norrington, and then with the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra and Larry Foster.

Nancy Argenta sings Beethoven Mass in C major and Salieri Mass in D major with the Victoria Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir at the Farquhar Auditorium, Victoria.

Dale Duesing continues performances as the reciter in Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon at Bastille Paris Opera.

Alan Oke sings the role of Ghandi in Philip Glass's 'Satyagraha' at the Metropolitan Opera.

Peter Rose continues to sing the role of Philipp II in 'Don Carlo' at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin as well as singing the role of Osmin in 'Die Entführung aus dem Serail' at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich.

Lars Vogt performs Mozart Piano Concerto K466 with the Cincinnati Symphony and Paavo Jarvi.

Sir Thomas Allen gives recitals at the Peterhouse Theatre, Cambridge and the Mayfield Festival of Music and Arts.

Julian Rachlin and Itamar Golan give a recital at the Wigmore Hall, London where the repertoire includes Britten, Shostakovich, Dvorak and Grieg.

Alexander Shelley conducts the Manchester Camerata with soloist Roll at the Royal Hall in Harrogate, as well as the final performances of Merry Widow with Royal Danish Opera.

Sarah Connolly performs the role of Dido and Ronan Collett sings Aeneas in a concert of Purcell with the Gabrieli Consort at London's Wigmore Hall.

Cedric Tiberghien performs a solo recital for the Abbotsholme Arts Society in Rocester.

Susan Gritton performs the role of Blonde in Mozart's Entfuehrung at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich.

Christopher Maltman gives a recital in London's Middle Temple Hall with Julius Drake.

25 April, 2008