International Concerts – Page 8 – Seen and Heard International

Glover and Ehnes deliver a rousing Sunday of Beethoven and Dvořák at the Aspen Music Festival

01/10/202118/08/2021 by Harvey Steiman

United States Aspen Music Festival [12]: Benedict Music Tent and Harris Hall, Aspen, Colorado, 13-15.8.2021. (HS)

A downpour briefly halts Joyce Yang’s performance (c) Carlin Ma

Karina Canellakis debuts at Blossom with a stern Tchaikovsky

01/10/202118/08/2021 by Mark S Jordan

United States Blossom Music Festival [3]: Behzod Abduraimov (piano), Michael Sachs (trumpet), Cleveland Orchestra / Karina Canellakis (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 15.8.2021. (MSJ)

Karina Canellakis conducts the Cleveland Orchestra © Roger Mastroianni

Mahler from the alpine meadows of Idaho’s Sun Valley

01/10/202114/08/2021 by Laurence Vittes

United States Sun Valley Music Festival – Mahler: Julia Bullock (soprano), Sun Valley Festival Orchestra / Alasdair Neale (conductor). Sun Valley Pavilion, Ketchum, Idaho, 8.9.2021. (LV)

Mahler 4 at the Sun Valley Music Festival (c) Nils Ribi

Conducting the Vienna Philharmonic at Salzburg, Thielemann’s Bruckner is as special as expected

01/10/202113/08/2021 by Jim Pritchard

Austria Salzburg Festival 2021 [1] – Mahler and Bruckner: Elína Garanča (mezzo-soprano), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Christian Thielemann (conductor). Performance at the Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, recorded (directed Elisabeth Malzer) August 2021 and streamed on ARTE Concert until 4.11.2021. (JPr)

Elína Garanča (mezzo-soprano) sing the *Rückert-Lieder*

Exquisite musicianship at the Chamber Music Northwest’s summer festival from Davóne Tines and the Brentano Quartet

01/10/202113/08/2021 by Rick Perdian

United Kingdom Various, ‘A Journey into the Light’: Davóne Tines (bass-baritone), Paul Watkins (cello), Gloria Chien (piano), Brentano String Quartet, Chamber Music Northwest, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 25.7.2021. Available for streaming through 31.8.2021 on 2021 AT-HOME Festival. (RP)

Davóne Tines (bass-baritone) © Tom Emerson

Esa-Pekka Salonen crafts a ‘Symphony Concert in Four Movements’ for Philadelphia

01/10/202112/08/2021 by Bernard Jacobson

United States Various, ‘An Evening with Esa-Pekka Salonen’: Yefim Bronfman (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor). Recorded at Verizon Hall in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, on 5.8.2021, streamed 5-12.8.2021 and reviewed on 6.8.2021. (BJ)

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra (c) Jeff Fusco

Melbourne and Singapore Symphony Orchestras unite for a virtual concert performance

01/10/202111/08/2021 by Rick Perdian

Australia Singapore Musical Friendship: J. C. Bach, Finsterer: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra / Brett Kelly (conductor), Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne. Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Joshua Tan (conductor). Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore. (Musical Friendship is available on Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s YouTube channel and Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s Facebook page). (RP)