United States Live from London – Chanticleer’s Love Always: Live-streamed from San Francisco, California, 3.10.2020. (CC)
International Concerts
All non-UK concert reviews
‘Musical Passports’ – a streamed concert with Tessa Lark and Andrew Armstrong from Cal Performances
United States Bartók, Ysaÿe, Schubert, Grieg, Ravel, Tessa Lark (violin) and Andrew Armstrong (piano): Recorded at New York’s Merkin Hall for Cal Performances, 1.10.2020. (HS)
Only two concerts were possible in this year’s abandoned ‘ARMENIA’ International Music Festival
Armenia ‘ARMENIA’ International Music Festival: Sport and Concert Complex after Karen Dmirchyan, Yerevan, Armenia, 24-26.9.2020. (CC)
Lucas Meachem’s ‘I Left My Aria in San Francisco’ recital
United States Various composers, Lucas Meachem (baritone) and Irina Meachem (piano): Merola Opera Program Virtual Recital series, streaming from Mill City Museum, Minneapolis. 25.9.2020. (HS)
in Minneapolis’s Mill City Museum
DSCH – Shostakovich Ensemble play music by Beethoven and Dvořák with nicknames in Lisbon
Portugal Beethoven, Dvořák, Festival Jovens Músicos 2020: DSCH – Shostakovich Ensemble (Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro [piano], Tedi Papavrami [violin], Kyril Zlotnikov [cello]). Live streamed from the Grande Auditório, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, by Radio Televisão Portuguesa RTP, 24.9.2020. (LV)
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
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich season opens with mysterious Pärt and ebullient Beethoven
Switzerland Pärt, Beethoven: Andreas Janke (violin), Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / Paavo Järvi (conductor), Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 24.9.2020. (JR)
Playing Beethoven the good old modern way in Montréal’s audiophile Maison symphonique
Canada Mozart, Beethoven: James Ehnes (violin), Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Bernard Labadie (conductor). 22.9.2020 performance from Montréal’s Maison symphonique, reviewed when streamed live on the OSM website. (LV)
