International Concerts

All non-UK concert reviews

Outstanding music-making in the opening concert of Chicago’s 2024 Grant Park Music Festival 

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United StatesUnited States Grant Park Music Festival [1] – Elgar, Holst: Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Lauren Decker (contralto), Grant Park Music Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Carlos Kalmar (conductor). Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Chicago, 15.6.2024. (JLZ)

Carlos Kalmar conducts contralto Lauren Decker in Holst’s The Cloud Messenger © Charles Osgood

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Alan Gilbert leads a superb account of Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher

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GermanyGermany Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher: Soloists, Vokalhelden Children’s Choir (directors: Johannes David Wolff, Judith Kamphues), MDR Radio Chorus (director: Philipp Ahmann), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Alan Gilbert (conductor). Philharmonie Berlin, 8.6.2024. (MB)

Jeanne d’Arc (spoken, Marion Cotillard) and Brother Dominique (spoken, Eric Génovèse) © Bettina Stöss

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Salonen and the SFS extend works by Ravel and Schoenberg with stagings, dancing and singing

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United StatesUnited States Ravel, Schoenberg: Mary Elizabeth Williams (soprano), Alonzo King LINES Ballet, San Francisco Symphony / Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. 8.6.2024. (HS)

Adji Cissoko (left) and Shuaib Elhassan (right) in Ravel’s Mother Goose © Kristen Loken

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