This Week at Askonas Holt

Pieter Wispelwey performs a recital of unaccompanied Bach as part of the Brinkburn Summer Music Festival in Morpeth, UK.

Peter Donohoe performs Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Teatro Colon Philharmonic Orchestra in Buenos Aires.

Anna Markarova and Larissa Gergieva give an all-Russian recital at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.

The Zehetmair Quartet performs a programme of works by Bruckner, Holliger and Beethoven at the Stift Kremsmünster in Austria.

Sarah Connolly performs Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with the Bath Philharmonia at Bath Abbey.

Matthew Rose gives a English Song recital as part of the Cheltenham Festival.

Cedric Tiberghien performs a solo recital at St Andrew by the Wardrobe and duo recital with Emily Beynon (flute) at St Mary Abchurch, all part of the City of London Festival. He goes on to perform a concert in Austria as part of the Lockenhaus Festival, with guest Alina Ibragimova (violin).

Ida Falk Winland performs the role of Fox in Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen at the Royal College of Music.

Anna Caterina Antonacci sings the role of Cassandra in a concert performance of Berlioz's 'Les Troyens' at the Tanglewood Music Fesitval this weekend with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Direction will be in the ever capable hands of James Levine, who celebrates his 65th Birthday this year.

Alexander Shelley returns to the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra for concerts in Copenhagen and at the Roskilde Festival in a programme of works by Shostakovich, Bernstein, Pärt , Britten and Stravinsky.

Alexander Vinogradov sings his last Selim at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin in 'Il Turco in Italia'.

Natalie Clein performs Haydn Cello Concerto in C with the Haydn Chamber Orchestra conducted by Robin O'Neill in a Charity Concert for North London Hospice.

David Atherton conducts the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme including Shostakovich Symphony No. 7.

Julian Rachlin begins a tour with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra conducted by Bennie Schwartz where he'll play the Sibelius and Bruch Violin Concertos across Germany and in Prague.

Markus Werba appears as Harlequin in 'Ariadne auf Naxos' for the last time this season at Covent Garden.

Elena Mosuc sings Lucia at the Classic Openair Solothurn 2008 Festival.

27 June, 2008