Performer: Anna Reinhold

Playing repeatedly in my mind as I walked home on 24 July was the spine-chilling orchestral performance of the "Dance of the Knights" from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet in the Franz Liszt Academy’s superb Solti Hall.

In 1676, Louis XIV’s court composer, Jean-Baptiste Lully, wrote Atys, an unusually tragic opera that became a favorite of the king. In 1987, William Christie’s Les Arts Florissants revived it in an acclaimed series of performances in Paris and eventually at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

La Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia y el Coro, bajo la dirección de Carlos Mena, ofrecieron el Stabat Mater de Haydn en una versión muy lírica y con una desigual actuación de los solistas.