United States Mostly Mozart Festival (4): Takács Quartet, Andreas Haefliger (piano), Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, 7.8.2011 (SSM)
Concert Reviews
The complete list of posted concert reviews
Edinburgh International Festival 2011 (3) – Montreal orchestra makes a splash
United Kingdom Debussy, Tan Dun, Beethoven: Wang Beibei (percussion), Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano (conductor), Usher Hall, 16.8.2011. (SRT)
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Williams’ Beethoven sonata cycle “a revelation.”
United Kingdom The Beethoven Concert Series at Greyfriars Kirk (2) – Llŷr Williams (piano), Greyfriars Kirk, 16.8.2011 (SRT)
Quincena Musical San Sebastián 2011 (2) – Pan awakens for Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Spain Mahler: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Orfeón Donostiarra (chorus), Karen Cargill (mezzo), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Auditorio Kursaal. 13.8.2011. (JMI)
Mahler: Symphony No.3
Prom 42 – The festival’s first complete Swan Lake ; or was it?
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake: Orchestra of the Mariinksy Theatre, Valery Gergiev (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 15.8.2011 (MB)
Notes from the 2011 Salzburg Festival ( 9 ) – Rossini, Haydn
Austria Haydn, Rossini: Anna Netrebko (soprano), Marianna Pizzolato (mezzo), Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Ildebrando D’Arcangelo (bass), Antonio Pappano (conductor), Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 9.8.2011 (JFL)
Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra turn most of Istanbul into ‘believers’
Turkey Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Castellanos, Chavez, Stravinsky: Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor), Halic Convention Center, Istanbul, 8. – 9. 8.2011 (AM)
Notes from the 2011 Salzburg Festival ( 8 ) – Mahler Scenes 7
Austria Mahler, Schnittke, Strauss: Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Antonine Tamestit (viola), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), and Alexander Lonquich (piano), Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, 8.8.2011 (JFL)