International Concerts

All non-UK concert reviews

Jeffrey Kahane leads the Brandenburgs with originality at the Colorado Music Festival

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United StatesUnited States Colorado Music Festival [2] – Bach: Colorado Music Festival Orchestra / Jeffrey Kahane (conductor, pianoforte). Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder, 19.7.2026. (DS)

Jeffrey Kahane (leader/pianoforte) and members of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra © Geremy Kornreich

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Gomyo and Bychkov are stunning in a relocated Blossom Festival concert

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United StatesUnited States Blossom Music Festival 2026 [3] – Shostakovich, Brahms: Karen Gomyo (violin), Cleveland Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 18.7.2026. (MSJ)

Semyon Bychkov directs the Cleveland Orchestra in Brahms’s Symphony No.4 © Roger Mastroianni/TCO

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Les Arts Florissants bring an imaginative Charpentier double bill to Caramoor

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United StatesUnited States Caramoor Festival [3] – Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Soloists from Le Jardin des Voix, Les Arts Florissants / William Christie (conductor). Venetian Theater, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah, 17.7.2026. (ES-S)

Scene from Les Arts florissants © Gabe Palacio

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A feast of color from Ohlsson and Bychkov in Cleveland

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United StatesUnited States Summers at Severance 2026 [1] – Various: Garrick Ohlsson (piano), The Cleveland Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 16.7.2026. (MSJ)

Pianist Garrick Ohlsson with conductor Semyon Bychkov and the Cleveland Orchestra © Yevhen Gulenko/TCO

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Virtuosi – Orchestra Wellington’s celebration of individual and interactive instrumental brilliance

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New ZealandNew Zealand Elgar, Bartók: New Zealand String Quartet: Peter Clark, Martin Riseley (guest player), (violins), Gillian Ansell (viola), Martin Smith (‘cello); Inbal Megiddo (‘cello). Orchestra Wellington / Marc Taddei (conductor). Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, 27.6.2026. (PM)

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