Laurence Vittes

Rachel Barton Pine triumphs in the Billy Childs Violin Concerto No.2 at the Hollywood Bowl

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United StatesUnited States John Williams, Billy Childs, Mussorgsky: Rachel Barton Pine (violin), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Stéphane Denève (conductor). Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 27.7.2023. (LV)

Rachel Barton Pine plays Billy Childs’s Violin Concerto No.2 © Matt Herman

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The International Chamber Music Academy at Ochsenhausen comes up gold at Bad Buchau’s Goldener Saal

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GermanyGermany Second International Chamber Music Academy at the Landesakademie in Ochsenhausen [3]: in partnership with the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Faculty members Matthias Buchholz (viola), Hillel Zori (cello), Zora Slokar (French horn), Elina Gotsouliak (piano), and students. Goldener Saal, Bad Buchau, 16.7.2023. (LV)

Leonid Surkov, Kylie Tan, Itamar Gadol and Matthias Buchholz play Britten © Saxton Rose

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International Chamber Music Academy returns to Ochsenhausen’s idyllic paths and gardens

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GermanyGermany Second International Chamber Music Academy at the Landesakademie in Ochsenhausen [2]: in partnership with the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Faculty members Matthias Buchholz (viola), Hillel Zori (cello), François Benda (clarinet), Elina Gotsouliak and Sun Hee Kim (pianos), and students. Kloster Bibliothekssaal, Ochsenhausen, 15.7.2023. (LV)

Oboist Leonid Surkov, bassoonist Luca Dovalina and pianist Jascha Silverstein play Poulenc © Saxton Rose

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The opening concert at the Second International Chamber Music Academy in Ochsenhausen

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GermanyGermany Second International Chamber Music Academy at the Landesakademie in Ochsenhausen [1]: Faculty members Matthias Buchholz (viola) and Zora Slokar (horn), and students. Bibliothekssaal, Bad Schussenried, 14.7.2023. (LV)

Beethoven’s Sextet, Op.81b © Lark Larisa Pilinsky

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David Stern’s Fuoco Obbligato conquers Guérigny with an exquisite concert of Baroque obbligato arias

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FranceFrance Prémery Music Festival 2023: Fuoco Obbligato: Anna Cavaliero (soprano), Rémy Brès-Feuillet (countertenor), Benoît Rameau (tenor), Jean Bregnac (flute), Katharina Wolff (violin), Jennifer Hardy (cello), Nora Dargazanli (harpsichord). L’Espace Lafayette, Guérigny, 2.7.2023. (LV)

Fuoco Obbligato © Clélia Stodal-Lurier

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Sergey ‘Spallenmann’ Malov and his violoncello da spalla triumph at Kissinger Sommer

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GermanyGermany Kissinger Sommer [2] – ‘Dueling Strings’: Sergey Malov (violin, violoncello da spalla), Venice Baroque Orchestra / Andrea Marcon (conductor). Erlöserkirche, Bad Kissingen, 30.06.2023. (LV)

Sergey Malov and his violoncello da spalla © Julie Wesely

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Novo Quartet shines in Mozart, Haydn and Bartók in Stevns Klint on the Danish coast

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DenmarkDenmark Scandinavian Cello School – SCS Next Generation: Novo Quartet (Kaya Kato Møller, Nikolai Vasili Nedergaard [violins], Daniel Śledziński [viola], Signe Ebstrup Bitsch [cello]). Stevns Klint Experience, Stevns Klint, 24.6.2023. (LV)

The Novo Quartet at Stevns Klint on the Danish coast © Mille Norvik

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