Concert Reviews – Page 148 – Seen and Heard International

Messaien’s imagination unleashed in Salzburg by Esa-Pekka Salonen

13/12/202202/09/2022 by Mark Berry

Austria Salzburg Festival [7] – Wagner and Messiaen: Yuja Wang (piano), Cécile Lartigau (ondes martenot), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 28.8.2022. (MB)

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra © SF/Marco Borrelli

Lucerne Festival: Berlin Philharmonic in a class of their own

13/12/202202/09/2022 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Lucerne Festival [3] – Schnittke, Bruckner: Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniel Harding (conductor). Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern (KKL), Lucerne, 1.9.2022. (JR)

Tabea Zimmermann (viola) & Daniel Harding (conductor) (c) Priska Ketterer/LF

Sir John Eliot Gardiner directs a sublime Missa solemnis at Berlin’s Musikfest

13/12/202202/09/2022 by Gregor Tassie

Germany Musikfest Berlin 2022 [2] – Beethoven: Lucy Crowe (soprano), Anna Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Giovanni Sala (tenor), William Thomas (bass), Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique / Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor). Philharmonie Hall, Berlin, 31.8.2022, and live-streamed on Digital Concert Hall. (GT)

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Beethoven’s Missa solemnis © Fabian Schellhorn

Music Box 2022: magnificent chamber music in Los Angeles

02/09/2022 by Douglas Dutton

United States Chamber Music LA presents Music Box 2022 – Various composers: Salastina, The Olive Trio, Jacaranda Music, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra String Quartet. Camerata Pacifica and Pittance Chamber Music, Zipper Hall at Colburn School, Los Angeles, 28.8.2022. (DLD)

(l-r) Steven Vanhauwaert, Trevor Handy, Susan Rishik, Margaret Batjer, Stuart Clark, Maia Jasper White, Soyeon Kate Lee, Jeremy Frank, Liv Redpath, Daniel Wang, Mira Kardan, Anaïs Feller © Brian Feinzimer

OAE’s use of period instruments was a continual delight in Bach’s Mass in B minor at the Proms

31/08/2022 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom BBC Proms 2022 [24], Prom 57 – Bach’s Mass in B minor: Rachel Redmond, Mary Bevan (sopranos), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Guy Cutting (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Choir of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / John Butt (harpsichord/conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 29.8.2022. (CK)

John Butt conducts the OAE from the harpsichord © BBC/Chris Christodoulou

Vivaldis Tod in Wien is a remarkable evening from Kopatchinskaja and Il Giardino Armonico

31/08/2022 by Colin Clarke

Switzerland Gstaad Menuhin Festival – Vivaldis Tod in Wien: Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini (recorder/conductor). Saanen Church, 26.8.2022. (CC)

Giovanni Antonini conducts l Giardino Armonico

The Cleveland Orchestra’s European tour sendoff gleams

31/08/2022 by Mark S Jordan

United States R. Strauss, Berg: Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 26.8.2022. (MSJ)

Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Cleveland Orchestra © Roger Mastroianni

Young talent competes for prizes in the finale of the 12th Glenarm Festival of Voice

31/08/2022 by Robert Beattie

United Kingdom 12th Glenarm Festival of Voice: Competition Finale: Hannah O’Brien (soprano), Heather Sammon (mezzo-soprano), Michael Bell (tenor), Owen Lucas (tenor), David Kennedy (baritone), Tristan Russcher (piano), Doireann O’Carroll (piano). Church of the Immaculate Conception, Glenarm, 28.8.2022. (RB)

The five finalists and pianist selected for NI Opera’s, 12th Glenarm Festival of Voice © Declan Roughan

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