Three finalists set for the Grand Finale in the 2022 Liszt Competition

NetherlandsNetherlands Liszt Utrecht 2022 [1] – Festival Phase: Liszt, Schubert, Schubert/Liszt, Wantenaar: Lea Hausmann (violin); Judith Wijzenbeek (viola); Samuel Shephard (cello); Roberto di Ronza (double bass); Viktoria Baskakova, Minkyu Kim, Yukine Kuroki, Tamta Magradze, Matyáš Novák, Yeon-min Park, Leonardo Pierdomenico, Vitaly Starikov, Derek Wang, KaJeng Wong (piano); Bernadeta Astari (soprano). Hertz Hall, TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, 22-24.9.2022. (LV)

The three finalists at Liszt Utrecht 2022: Derek Wang, Yukine Kuroki, Yeon-Min Park © Allard Willemse

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Battle of the bands at the Banff International String Quartet Competition

CanadaCanada Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC) – 21st Century / Haydn and Romantic rounds: Abeo Quartet, Animato Kwartet, Balourdet Quartet, Dior Quartet, Isidore String Quartet, Karski Quartet, Opus13, Quatuor Agate, Terra String Quartet. Jenny Belzberg Theatre, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff. 29.8.-1.9.2022. (LV)

Quatuor Agate at the BISQC © Rita Taylor

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The Vienna Chamber Orchestra and a troupe of fun-loving virtuosos at the Festival de Música dos Capuchos

PortugalPortugal Festival de Música dos Capuchos – Mozart, Haydn: Diana Tishchenko (violin), Gérard Caussé (viola), Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello), Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro (piano), Vienna Chamber Orchestra / Victor Julien-Laferrière (conductor). Watched on private video feeds provided by the Festival from the Grande Auditório Universidade Nova FCT (Caparica), Almada, Portugal, 17 & 18.6.2022.  (LV)

Victor Julien-Laferrière playing Haydn with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra © Festival de Música dos Capuchos

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Previewing the Festival de Música dos Capuchos 2022 with artistic director Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro

Festival de Música dos Capuchos 2022 Beginning in 1980 the Festival de Música dos Capuchos was a major event on the international landscape. After a silence of two decades, the Festival was reborn in 2021 in a beautiful monastery in Almada across the Tagus River from Lisbon, with the hall at the University of Lisbon’s … Read more

Mozart’s Ascanio in Alba in Bourgogne – magnifique!

FranceFrance Mozart, Ascanio in Alba: Soloists, Choruses of Cosne-sure-Loire, Decize, Château-Chinon, Prémery and Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier (chorus directors: Stéphane Ruelle, Pauline Touma), Ensemble musical de Prémery / Laurent Noguès (conductor), L’Église Saint Pierre, Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, 6.6.2022. (LV)

Jean-Paul Denizon narrating Mozart’s Ascanio in Alba © Dan Krajcman

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Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse shines in Verdi’s Requiem at the Philharmonie de Paris

FranceFrance Verdi, Requiem: Susanne Bernhard (soprano), Aude Extrémo (mezzo-soprano), Airam Hernández (tenor), Adam Palka (bass). Orfeón Donostiarra, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse / Jukka Pekka Saraste (conductor). Grande Salle Pierre Boulez, Philharmonie de Paris, 6.1.2022. (LV)

The Orchestra of Toulouse in Verdi‘s Requiem © Dan Krajcman

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