Germany Bach, Pärt, Nystedt, Schoenberg: Munich Bach Choir, Hansjörg Albrecht (conductor, organ) Ludwigskirche, Munich, 28.7.2011 (JFL)
International Concerts
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Aspen Music Festival 2011 (8) – “Falstaff” and Recitals by Denk, DeYoung and the American Brass Quintet
Aspen Music Festival (8): Verdi’s Falstaff; Jeremy Denk plays Ligeti and Bach; American Brass Quintet; Michelle DeYoung sings Brahms. 29.7.2011 (HS)
At the Olympic Music Festival, the Voice Prevails in a Chamber Concert
Mozart, Brahms, et al : Stefan Hersh (violin), Alan Iglitzin (viola), Daniel Montenegro (tenor), Paul Hersh (piano), Jeffrey Fair (horn), Olympic Music Festival, Quilcene, WA. 24.7.2010 (BJ)
Michael Volle’s Schubert & Loewe Recital at the Munich Opera Festival
Liederabend, F. Schubert, C. Loewe: Michael Volle (baritone), Helmut Deutsch (pianist). Munich Prinzregenten Theatre. 20.07.2011. (JMI)
Aspen Music Festival 2011 (7) – Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Bach, Schnittke and Rouse’s ‘Rescued Alberich’ with Colin Currie
Aspen Music Festival (7): Vasily Petrenko (conductor) and Aspen Chamber Symphony in Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky, and Julia Fischer, Augustin Hadelich (violins) in Bach and Schnittke; Marin Alsop (conductor) and Aspen Festival Orchestra in Prokofiev and Wagner, with Colin Currie (percussion) in Rouse’s Der Geretette Alberich. Aspen, Colorado, 22-24.7.2011 (HS)
An evening with three champions: Istanbul Music Festival special concert with Renée Fleming &BIFO
Schubert, R. Strauss, Mascagni, Massenet, Khachaturian, Dvorak, Gounod, Leoncavallo, Puccini, Cilea, Verdi : Renée Fleming (soprano), Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Sascha Goetzel (conductor), Hagia Eirene Museum, Istanbul, 22.7.2011 (AM)
Aspen Music Festival 2011 (6) – Baroque, Beethoven and Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
Aspen Music Festival (6): Gil Shaham (violin); Baroque with Daniel Hope; Jupiter Quartet begins Beethoven odyssey; Britten, Midsummer Night’s Dream. 18-21.7.2011 (HS)
Chamber Music by Mozart, Schumann, and Dohnányi at the Olympic Music Festival
Mozart, Schumann, and Dohnányi : The Festival Quartet: Charles Weatherbee and Korine Fujiwara (violins), Alan Iglitzin (viola) and Clancy Newman (cello); Paul Hersh (piano) Olympic Music Festival, Quilcene, WA, 17.7.2010 (BJ)