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)
International Concerts
All non-UK concert reviews
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)
Double Basses & Company: Jack Buckley’s final weekend at the Pontino Festival
Double Basses & Company: Jack Buckley’s final weekend at the Pontino Festival (JB)
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)