United States Aspen Music Festival (5): Meyer and Bell in Meyer’s new double concerto; Auerbach’s solo take on Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures’; Trpceski vivid in Tchaikovsky concerto. 13-15.7.2012 (HS)
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Aspen IV: The Emerson’s, Hamelin and Weirdly Fascinating Crumb
United States Aspen Music Festival (4): Emerson Quartet wields powerful Shostakovich; Hamelin hammers and caresses the piano; Hope and Kahane mesh smoothly especially in Walton and Schulhoff; and a strange and wonderful program of Crumb and Mendelssohn. 10-12.7.2012 (HS)
Aspen III: Kick-starting Mahler and a Luminous Verklärte Nacht
United States Aspen Music Festival (3): Feltsman wrestles with Beethoven’s “Emperor” and Glover mesmerizes with Mozart; a luminous Verklärte Nacht; Daniel Hope tackles Prokofiev, Søndergård kick-starts Mahler 1. 9.7.2012 (HS)
Aspen II: Modern Baroque and Original Copland
United States Aspen Music Festival (2): David Finckel-Wu Han program explores audience responses, Anton Nel plays MacDowell concerto, McGegan leads Baroque with modern instruments, and Copland’s Quiet City impresses in its original instrumentation. 6.7.2012 (HS)
Aspen I: Spano, McGegan and a Parade of Pianists
United States Aspen Music Festival 2012 (1): On opening weekend, Spano leads energetic Gershwin and Bartók, McGegan makes Beethoven and Mendelssohn dance, and a series of pianists take on Gershwin, Mendelssohn, Wyner, Lutoslawski, Bolcom and, finally, Rachmaninoff. 1.7.2012 (HS)
Aspen Music Festival 2011 (14) – Brahms, Mahler 2 and some jazzy Shostakovich
United States Aspen Music Festival (14): Slatkin conducts Shostakovich, Olga Kern (piano) and Alisa Weilerstein (cello); Spano conducts Mahler 2, Twyla Robinson (soprano), Sasha Cooke (mezzo soprano). 21.8.2011 (HS)
Aspen Music Festival (13) – A fully staged West Side Story, recitals by Meyer and Chang,Ravel’s Piano Trio and some Messiaen
United States Aspen Music Festival (13): Recitals by Edgar Meyer (bass) and Sarah Chang (violin), Steven Osborne and friends play Ravel’s Piano Trio, Opera Theater does West Side Story. 19.8.2011 (HS)
Aspen Music Festival 2011 (12) – Gerstein, ASQ, West Side Story with Sarah Chang and some unforgettable Messiaen
United States Aspen Music Festival (12): Gerstein plays Brahms concerto, American String Quartet plays Ravel, a new “West Side Story” showpiece for Sarah Chang and an unforgettable Quartet for the End of Time. 15.8.2011 (HS)