An American Celebration – Cohan, Michel, Walker , Ives, Friedrich, Bernstein, Hawkins, Cannon, Sousa, and trad: Mosaic Brass Quintet; Olympic Music Festival, Quilcene, WA, 4.7.2010 (BJ)
International Concerts
All non-UK concert reviews
In New York, Two Quartets with Premieres and Sounds from Far North
Arctic Sounds : Mivos Quartet, Redshift, Kathy Turco (recorded sounds), Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, 29.6.2011 (BH)
Aspen Music Festival 2011 – The Opening Weekend
Aspen Music Festival (1): McGegan, Rhys have fun with Mendelssohn; Marsalis brings Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to Aspen; Feltsman plays Rachmaninov 2. 4.7.2011 (HS)
Das Lied von der Erde at Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival
Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde at the Grant Park Music Festival: Grant Park Orchestra, Alexandra Petersamer (mezzo soprano), Christian Elsner (tenor), Carlos Kalmar (Artistic Director and Principal Conductor), Harris Theater, Chicago, 2.7.2011 (JLZ).
Elissò Virsaladze’s all Liszt Recital at the Pontino Festival
Liszt : Elissò Virsaladze (piano), Fossanova Abbey, Italy, 3.7. 2011 (JB)
Josef Slavìk’s Violin Concertos Restated – A World Premiere Long Overdue
Josef Slavìk : Violin Concertos no.1 and no.2, Città di Ferrara Orchestra, Marco Zuccarini (conductor), Laura Marzadori (violin), Pedemonte, Italy, 30.6.2011 (GLV)
Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, Schoenberg with the NYPO and Deborah Voigt
Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, Schoenberg : Deborah Voigt (soprano), David Robertson (conductor), New York Philharmonic, Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, 11.6.2011 (BH)
Mahler With a Side of Haydn: Munich Philharmonic & Juraj Valcuha
Mahler, Haydn: Munich Philharmonic, Juraj Valcuha (conductor) Philharmonie Gasteig, Munich, 25.6.2011 (JFL)