Hungary Britten, The Turn of the Screw: Soloists, instrumentalists of the Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer (conductor). MŰPA, Budapest, 10.9.2022. (AK)
Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of The Screw triumphs in Budapest
Agnes Kory
Excellent Wigmore Hall Acis and Galatea from Christopher Purves, John Butt and the Dunedin Consort
United Kingdom Handel, Acis and Galatea HWV49: Dunedin Consort / John Butt (conductor), Wigmore Hall, London, 24.6.2022. (AK)
Integrity without gimmicks from András Keller and Concerto Budapest at Cadogan Hall
United Kingdom Bartók, Mozart, Beethoven: Angela Hewitt (piano), Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra / András Keller (conductor). Cadogan Hall, London, 6.6.2022. (AK)
A second London helping of Hungarian folk music and folk dance this time from MÁNE and friends
United Kingdom Liszt Mosaics: Alexandre Da Costa (violin), Hungarian State Folk Ensemble with soloists, Saint Ephraim Male Choir, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra / Oleg Caetani (conductor). Sadler’s Wells, London, 3.6.2022. (AK)
A film and spellbinding live concert by the ensemble Muzsikás celebrates Hungarian folk traditions
United Kingdom Hungarian Folk Music: Muzsikás, Kings Place, London, 22.5.2022. (AK)
Vadim Gluzman’s musical influence and direction inspires the Young Soloists of the Kronberg Academy
United Kingdom Vasks, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky – Young Soloists of the Kronberg Academy: Vadim Gluzman, Lara Boschkor (violin), Diyang Mei, Karolina Errera (viola), Ivan Karizna, Erica Piccotti (cello). Wigmore Hall, London, 26.9.2021. (AK)
Live concerts, live audiences, and live-streaming, return chamber music to Chicago’s North Shore Chamber Music Festival
United States Milhaud, Ravel, Gershwin, Bloch, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Auerbach, Dorman, Robert and Clara Schumann, Brahms: Vadim Gluzman (violin), Ilya Shterenberg (clarinet]) Mark Kosower (cello), Angela Yoffe (piano), William Wolfram (piano). Streamed live from PianoForte Studios Chicago, 10 and 11.9.2020. (AK)
perform Dancing with the Torah at Mount Meron (c) Daniel Odroniec
North Shore Chamber Music Festival – onstage/offstage in-person and livestream concerts
Live concerts with live audiences (as well as with worldwide streaming) return to Chicago with an unusual series of chamber music at the North Shore Chamber Music Festival North Shore Chamber Music Festival would have celebrated its 10th anniversary season in June but, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, the celebrations had to be cancelled. This … Read more