Double Basses & Company: Jack Buckley’s final weekend at the Pontino Festival (JB)
International Concerts
All non-UK concert reviews
Aspen Music Festival 2011 (5) Contemporary and familiar connect with listeners
Aspen Music Festival (5): Daniel Hope, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Joyce Yang and Stefan Jackiw, Julian Fischer and Daniel Mueller-Schott. 17.7.2011 (HS)
Aspen Music Festival 2011: Takács Quartet, Finckel and Han, Emerson Quartet and Simone Dinnerstein
Aspen Music Festival (4): Takács Quartet, David Finckel and Wu Han, Emerson Quartet, Simone Dinnerstein. 15.7.2011 (HS)
The Emerson Quartet plays Haydn, Bartók and Schubert with exactly the right quantity of polish.
Haydn, Bartók, Schubert: The Emerson String Quartet – Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer (violins), Lawrence Dutton (viola), David Finckel (cello) – Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI, 7.7.2011 (DBG)
Pontino Festival 2011 (2) – An Enquiry into Musical Energy
Pontino Festival 2011 (2) Beethoven and Schumann: Natalia Gutman (cello) and Eilissò Virsaladze (piano) Caetani Castle courtyard, Sermoneta, 11. 7. 2011, with Davide Alogna, Cesare Zanfini, Mirei Yamada, Raffaele Fuccilli (violins), Diana
Bonatesta (viola) (JB)
Grieg, Schumann, Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, and Strauss at the Seattle Chamber Music Society
Seattle Chamber Music Society – Grieg, Schumann, Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, and Strauss: Various artists, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, Seattle. 11.7.2011 (BJ)
Excellent Bach and Paganini in Whangarei, New Zealand
Bach and Paganini: Martin Riseley (violin), The Old Library Art Centre, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand, 25.6.2011 (PSe)
Mozart from The Olympic Festival Quartet
Mozart : The Festival Quartet: Charles Weatherbee and Korine Fujiwara (violins), Alan Iglitzin (viola), Clancy Newman (cello); Olympic Music Festival, Quilcene, WA, 9.7.2010 (BJ)