United States Mostly Mozart (6): Mozart Festival Orchestra, Jérémie Rhorer (Conductor), Bertrand Chamayou (Piano), Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, 23.8.2011 (SSM)
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Notes from the 2011 Salzburg Festival ( 12 ) – Camerata Salzburg 1
Austria Ives, Hartmann, Mahler, Mozart: Camerata Salzburg, Maria João Pires (piano), Kent Nagano (conductor), Mozarteum Grand Concert Hall, Salzburg, 12.8.2011 (JFL)
Salzburg Festival 2011 – The Hagen Quartet masterly in Schubert
Austria Schubert: Hagen Quartet (Lukas Hagen, Rainer Schmidt (violins), Veronika Hagen (viola), Clemens Hagen (cello)). Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, 23.8.2011 (MB)
Salzburg Festival 2011: A magnificent, searching Winterreise
Austria Schubert, Winterreise: Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 22.8.2011 (MB)
Aspen Music Festival 2011 (14) – Brahms, Mahler 2 and some jazzy Shostakovich
United States Aspen Music Festival (14): Slatkin conducts Shostakovich, Olga Kern (piano) and Alisa Weilerstein (cello); Spano conducts Mahler 2, Twyla Robinson (soprano), Sasha Cooke (mezzo soprano). 21.8.2011 (HS)
Shostakovich Shines Again at a Sunny Olympic Music Festival
United States Debussy, Ravel, Shostakovich, and Schoenfield: Emily Deans (viola and violin), Jessica Lee (violin), Alan Iglitzin (viola), David Requiro (cello), Julio Elizalde (piano), Olympic Music Festival, Quilcene, WA, 21.8.2010 (BJ)
At Lincoln Center Festival, Danes Excel in Nielsen and Stravinsky
United States Lincoln Center Festival: Nielsen, Stravinsky, Svendsen : John Kruse (clarinet) Tuva Semmingsen (mezzo-soprano), Peter Lodahl (tenor), Jochen Kupfer (bass), Royal Danish Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor), Alice Tully Hall, Kaplan Penthouse, New York City, 28-30.7.2011 (BH)
Bard Summerscape Festival 2011 – Sibelius and his World
United States Sibelius, Raitio, Nielsen, Barber, Vaughan Williams: American Symphony Orchestra, Yulia Doren (soprano), Tyler Duncan (baritone), Leon Botstein (conductor), Sosnoff Theater, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. 20-21.8.2011 (GG)