Festival Review: Boston Early Music Festival, Boston, 12-6-2011 to 19-6-2011 (SSM)
International Concerts
All non-UK concert reviews
Night Music in the afternoon at the Olympic Music Festival
Night Music – Debussy, Schumann, Fauré, and Chopin : Paul Hersh (piano); Olympic Music Festival, Quilcene, WA, 25.6.2011 (BJ)
A Missa Solemnis ends the San Francisco Symphony Season
Beethoven, Missa Solemnis: San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Christine Brewer (soprano), Katarina Karnéus (mezzo soprano), Gregory Kunde (tenor), Ain Anger (bass), Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. 23.6.2011 (HS)
Nagano Downriver: Mahler’s Seventh in Munich
Mahler: Munich Philharmonic, Kent Nagano (conductor) Philharmonie Gasteig, Munich, 20.6.2011 (JFL)
Istanbul Music Festival Hosts Hilary Hahn with Mozart’s 5th Violin Concerto
Mozart, Bartók, Ravel: Hilary Hahn (violin), Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Sascha Goetzel (conductor), Hagia Eirene Museum, Istanbul, 21.6.2011 (AM)
James Conlon’s La bohème in Rome
Puccini, La bohème: Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro dell’Opera, Rome, 21.6.2011 (JB)
It’s About Time: Old Beethoven, New Sebastian Currier and Overdue Bruckner
Beethoven, Sebastian Currier, Bruckner: Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Alan Gilbert (conductor), New York Philharmonic, Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, 4.6.2011 (BH)