High on new music at the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder

United StatesUnited 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

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

CanadaCanada 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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DSCH – Shostakovich Ensemble play music by Beethoven and Dvořák with nicknames in Lisbon

PortugalPortugal Beethoven, Dvořák, Festival Jovens Músicos 2020: DSCH – Shostakovich Ensemble (Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro [piano], Tedi Papavrami [violin], Kyril Zlotnikov [cello]). Live streamed from the Grande Auditório, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, by Radio Televisão Portuguesa RTP, 24.9.2020. (LV)

DSCH – Shostakovich Ensemble

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Playing Beethoven the good old modern way in Montréal’s audiophile Maison symphonique

CanadaCanada Mozart, Beethoven: James Ehnes (violin), Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Bernard Labadie (conductor). 22.9.2020 performance from Montréal’s Maison symphonique, reviewed when streamed live on the OSM website. (LV)

James Ehnes

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The Dresden Festival Orchestra’s Beethoven shows all you need is the right players and a sympathetic conductor

GermanyGermany Beethoven: Dresden Festival Orchestra / Josep Caballé Domenech (conductor). 12.9.2020 performance from Löwensaal, Dresden, reviewed when streamed live on Dreamstage. (LV)

Josep Caballé Domenech (conductor)

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In Utrecht, three finalists at the Nederlands Vioolconcours

NetherlandsNetherlands Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Ravel – Nederlands Vioolconcours [2]: Leon Blekh, Charlotte Spruit, Coraline Groen (violins); Residentie Orkest The Hague / Anja Bihlmaier (conductor). TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands. 2.2.2020. (LV)

Coraline Groen (violin), Residentie Orchestra, & Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)
(c) Foppe Schut

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2020 Netherlands Violin Competition has an intriguing mix of contemporary and traditional music

NetherlandsNetherlands Various composers, Nederlands Vioolconcours [1] (curated by Emmy Storms): Emmy Storms, Lenneke van Staalen (violins), Cynthia Liem (piano), Heiko Dijker (tabla). Podium Hoge Woerd, Utrecht, 29.1.2020. (LV)

Vioolconcours 2020 © Foppe Schut

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