Monteverdi Choir
Royal Albert Hall, London, 3 September
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Writ large across five imposing acts, Berlioz’s operatic masterpiece Les Troyens is as epic as its literary source: Virgil’s Aeneid. John Eliot Gardiner conducts a concert performance uniting his Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique plus a formidable cast including Paula Murrihy as the ill-fated Dido and Michael Spyres as Aeneas.
Heath Quartet and Steven Osborne
Concert Hall, Perth, 3 September
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The BBC Proms’ final chamber music ‘away-day’ culminates in Shostakovich’s wartime Piano Quintet, which brings together the Heath Quartet and pianist Steven Osborne. In the first half, they pursue separate paths, with Haydn’s early String Quartet Op. 9 No. 2 prefacing Tippett’s Piano Sonata No.
