United States Poulenc, Debussy, Sallinen, Marx: Karita Mattila (soprano), Martin Katz (piano), presented by San Francisco Performances, Herbst Hall, San Francisco. 6.12.2011 (HS)
International Concerts
All non-UK concert reviews
Not Your Usual School Music Recital: Juilliard’s Students Show What They’ve Learned
United States Handel, Telemann: Juilliard 415, Monica Huggett (leader and violin), Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Juilliard School, New York City, 2.12.2011 (SSM)
The Draw of Weinberg: Transcriptions from the Castle
Germany Weinberg, Glinka, Schumann: Julia Rebekka Adler (viola), Jascha Nemtsov (piano), Sudhaus, Toering Castle, Seefeld (near Munich) 4.12.2011 (JFL)
Even At Less Than Their Best, Takács Gets to the Heart Of Three Twentieth-Century Quartets
United States Janáček, Britten, Ravel: Takács Quartet (Edward Dusinberre, Károly Schranz, violins; Geraldine Walther, viola; András Fejér, cello), presented by Cal Performances, Hertz Hall, University of California at Berkeley, 4.12.2011 (HS)
Ouija-Connection to Schubert’s Ghost and Ravel’s Never-Ending Hum(m)dinger
Germany Berio, Ravel: David Robertson (conductor), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Herkulessaal, Munich 2.12.2011 (JFL)
Even at Less Than Their Best, Takács Gets to the Heart Of Three Twentieth-Century Quartets
United States Janáček, Britten, Ravel: Takács Quartet (Edward Dusinberre, Károly Schranz, violins; Geraldine Walther, viola; András Fejér, cello), presented by Cal Performances, Hertz Hall, University of California at Berkeley. 4.12.2011 (HS)
Masur in the Golden Twilight Of His Career: in Zurich With the Tonhalle
Switzerland Shostakovich, Beethoven, R. Strauss: Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich, Kurt Masur (conductor), Helen Huang (piano), Tonhalle Zurich, 2.12.2011 (JR)
Alexandre Tharaud in Recital: A Case of the Perpetual Puppies
Germany Debussy, Scarlatti: Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Munich, 29.11.2011 (JFL)