25th George Enescu Festival – East-West Chamber Orchestra – Rostislav Krimer conducts Mozart’s Symphony No.29, Weinberg’s Chamber Symphony No.2 and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, Nicolas Dautricourt plays Frédéric Chaslin’s arrangement of Enescu’s Violin Sonata No.3 [live webcast]

25th George Enescu Festival – East-West Chamber Orchestra – Rostislav Krimer conducts Mozart’s Symphony No.29, Weinberg’s Chamber Symphony No.2 and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, Nicolas Dautricourt plays Frédéric Chaslin’s arrangement of Enescu’s Violin Sonata No.3 [live webcast]

Sep 22, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Tuesday, September 21, 2021 Romanian Athenaeum, Strada Benjamin Franklin 1-3, Bucharest 030167, Romania Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Given the high-profile calibre of players and familiar faces in the East-West Chamber Orchestra, an ‘orchestra for peace’ founded in 2015,...
Inauguration of the newly renovated Tonhalle Zürich – Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich – Paavo Järvi conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony, with Wiebke Lehmkuhl [SRF 1 live webcast]

Inauguration of the newly renovated Tonhalle Zürich – Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich – Paavo Järvi conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony, with Wiebke Lehmkuhl [SRF 1 live webcast]

Sep 17, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Wednesday, September 15, 2021  Tonhalle, Claridenstrasse 7, 8002 Zürich, Switzerland   Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga The room by the lake. To a design by Helmer and Fellner, late Habsburg Europe’s most celebrated master builders, inaugurated by Brahms...
25th George Enescu Festival – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Vasily Petrenko conducts Enescu’s Second Suite & Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, and Julia Fischer plays Mendelssohn’s E-minor Violin Concerto [live webcast]

25th George Enescu Festival – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Vasily Petrenko conducts Enescu’s Second Suite & Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, and Julia Fischer plays Mendelssohn’s E-minor Violin Concerto [live webcast]

Sep 9, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 Romanian Athenaeum, Strada Benjamin Franklin 1-3, Bucharest 030167, Romania Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga A cultural and spiritual rallying point of Romanian life since it opened in 1888, the neoclassical Athenaeum, a European Heritage site,...
25th George Enescu Festival – Münchner Philharmoniker – Valery Gergiev conducts Enescu’s Second Suite & Brahms’s First Symphony, and Gautier Capuçon plays Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto [live webcast]

25th George Enescu Festival – Münchner Philharmoniker – Valery Gergiev conducts Enescu’s Second Suite & Brahms’s First Symphony, and Gautier Capuçon plays Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto [live webcast]

Sep 8, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Tuesday, September 7, 2021 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Gautier Capuçon’s big-toned account of Shostakovich’s 1959 E-flat First Cello Concerto written for Rostropovich proved the highlight of this...