United States Brouwer, Liszt, Stravinsky: Canton Symphony Orchestra, Gerhardt Zimmermann (conductor), Martina Filjak (piano), Umstattd Hall, Canton, Ohio (USA), 9.10.11 (TW)
International Concerts
All non-UK concert reviews
NSO, North by Northeast
United States Mussorgsky, Sibelius, Liadov, Nielsen: Gidon Kremer (violin), John Storgårds (conductor), National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington, DC. 9.10.2011 (RRR)
He Called For His Fiddlers Three, and Did They Fiddle: Juilliard Baroque Perform Early Music
United States Juilliard Baroque’s “The Three Fiddlers”: Monica Huggett, Cynthia Roberts, Robert Mealy (violins), Phoebe Carrai (cello), Avi Stein (harpsichord), Paul Hall, Juilliard School of Music, New York,27-9-2011 (SSM)
Electrifying Bruckner Seventh in Helsinki
Finland Mozart, Bruckner: The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Kurt Masur, Helsinki Music Centre, 16.9.2011 (GF)
Not Quite Smiles All Round: Beethoven, Barber and Haydn in Zurich
Switzerland Beethoven, Barber, Haydn: Tonhalle Orchestra, David Zinman( conductor), Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Zurich Tonhalle, 6.10.2011 (JR)
Berg Replaces Beethoven in a Concert Of the “Three Bs”
United States Bach, Berg, Brahms: Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Alan Gilbert (violin and conductor), New York Philharmonic Orchestra,Avery Fisher Hall,New York, 5.10.2011(SSM)
CBSO impresses in Zurich
Switzerland Wagner, Haydn, Gruber and Tchaikovsky: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons (conductor), Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet) Zurich, Tonhalle, 4.10.2011 (JR)
Refined Schubert and Mahler from the Tonhalle and David Zinman
Switzerland Schubert, Mahler: Tonhalle Orchestra, David Zinman (conductor) – Tonhalle, Zurich 27.9.2011 (JR)