International Concerts

All non-UK concert reviews

Young talents shine at Verão Clássico: a decade of musical excellence in Lisbon

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PortugalPortugal Verão Clássico Festival & Academy 2024 [4] – TalentFest Concerts I-IV: 54 players (violin, viola, cello, double bass, clarinet, flute, accordion, piano). Museu Nacional dos Coches, Lisbon, 24, 25, 26 & 30.7.2024. (LV)

Violinist Filipe Fernandes playing at the Verão Clássico © Andreia Carvalho

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Ólafsson and Welser-Möst in a richly played Blossom Festival concert

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United StatesUnited States Blossom Festival 2024 [5]: Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, 17.8.2024. (MSJ)

Conductor Franz Welser-Möst and pianist Víkingur Ólafsson in Schumann’s Piano Concerto © Kevin Libal/CO

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Spreading the joy with music new and old at the Sun Valley Music Festival

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United StatesUnited States Sun Valley Music Festival [2]: Sun Valley Pavilion, Sun Valley, Idaho, 13 & 14.8.2024. (RP)

Jeremy Constant (violin), Amos Yang (cello), John Wilson (pianist) and Stephanie Childress (conductor) in Beethoven’s ‘Triple’ Concerto © Nils Ribi/SVMF

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Flying the Flag at Tanglewood: Dudamel and his children’s orchestra celebrate Venezuela’s El Sistema

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United StatesUnited States Tanglewood Festival 2024 [12] – Adams, Estévez, Ginastera, Shostakovich: National Children’s Symphony of Venezuela / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor), Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, 8.8.2024. (CSa)

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the National Children’s Symphony of Venezuela at Tanglewood © Hilary Scott/BSO

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A micro-managed Salzburg Mahler Ninth from Andris Nelsons and the VPO was fine, how could it not be?

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival [5] – Mahler, Symphony No.9: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Andris Nelsons (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Leopold Knötzl) from the Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 11.8.2024 and available on STAGE+. (JPr)

Andris Nelsons conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Salzburg

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