Laurence Vittes – Seen and Heard International

Gourzí’s extraordinary new trumpet concerto and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto from the Tonkünstler Orchestra at Grafenegg

10/09/202110/09/2021 by Laurence Vittes

Austria Grafenegg Festival – Gourzí, Beethoven: Simon Höfele (trumpet), Emmanuel Tjeknavorian (violin), Harriet Krijgh (cello), Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), Tonkünstler Orchestra / Konstantía Gourzí and Rudolf Buchbinder (conductors). Schloss Grafenegg Auditorium, 5.9.2021. (LV)

Konstantía Gourzí (c) Astrid Ackermann

Auryn Quartet’s Mondsee Musiktage farewell: Mendelssohn’s Octet and other chamber music magic

09/09/202106/09/2021 by Laurence Vittes

Austria Mondsee Musiktage 2021 – ‘Lehrer und Schüler’: Isabelle Engels and Lisa Maria Schumann (violins), Matthias Buchholz (viola), Irena Josifoska (cello), Annika Treutler (piano), Auryn Quartet (Matthias Lingenfelder, Jens Oppermann [violins], Stewart Eaton [viola], Andreas Arndt [cello]). Schloss Mondsee, Mondsee, 30.8.2021. (LV)

The Auryn Quartet and friends play Mendelssohn’s Octet (c) Willi Pleschberger

Salzburg Festival lovefest for Herbert Blomstedt

07/09/202105/09/2021 by Laurence Vittes

Austria Salzburg Festival 2021 [4] – Honegger, Brahms: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Herbert Blomstedt (conductor), Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 29.8.2021. (LV, JP)

Herbert Blomstedt conducts the Vienna Philharmonic (c) Marco Borrelli

Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis give haunting performances at the Salzburg Festival

14/09/202130/08/2021 by Laurence Vittes

Austria Salzburg Festival 2021 [3] – Mozart, Beethoven, Franck: Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Lambert Orkis (piano). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 28.8.2021. (LV)

Anne-Sophie Mutter & Lambert Orkis at the Salzburg Festival (c) Marco Borrelli

Mahler from the alpine meadows of Idaho’s Sun Valley

14/09/202114/08/2021 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

High on new music at the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder

14/09/202130/07/2021 by Laurence Vittes

United States Colorado Music Festival – Kaleidoscope: Christopher Taylor (piano), Ji Su Jung (marimba), strings and percussion of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra. Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder, Colorado, 23.7.2021. (LV)

Ji Su Jung plays music by Klatzow and Stevens (c) Abbey Davis

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra reopens Walt Disney Concert Hall with Latin flair

21/08/202130/06/2021 by Laurence Vittes

United States Various: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra / Jaime Martín (conductor), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 28.6.2021. (LV)

Jaime Martín & Juan Pablo Contreras after the premiere of ‘Mariachitlán’
(c) Greg Grudt/Mathew Imaging

From Montréal with pleasure: Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Strauss’s Le bourgeois gentilhomme

29/12/202009/10/2020 by Laurence Vittes

Canada Mozart, Richard Strauss: Todd Cope (clarinet), Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Susanna Mälkki (conductor). 6.10.2020 performance from Montréal’s Maison symphonique, reviewed when streamed live on the OSM website. (LV)

Todd Cope and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (c) Antoine Saito

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