Berliner Philharmoniker – Tugan Sokhiev conducts Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony, with Alexandre Kantorow playing Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Berliner Philharmoniker – Tugan Sokhiev conducts Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony, with Alexandre Kantorow playing Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Sep 30, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Saturday, September 30, 2023 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin The short first half found Alexandre Kantorow playing Liszt’s continuous/organic A-major Piano Concerto, opening with beguiling woodwinds and a delicate response from the...
Manhattan School of Music – Leonard Slatkin conducts Duke Ellington’s Three Black Kings, Mason Bates’s The B-Sides, Alan Hovhaness’s Mysterious Mountain, and George Gershwin’s An American in Paris. Live MSM webcast.

Manhattan School of Music – Leonard Slatkin conducts Duke Ellington’s Three Black Kings, Mason Bates’s The B-Sides, Alan Hovhaness’s Mysterious Mountain, and George Gershwin’s An American in Paris. Live MSM webcast.

Sep 29, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Thursday, September 28, 2023 Neidorff-Karpati Hall, Manhattan School of Music, New York City Before packing his suitcase for conducting dates in Spain, Poland, Ireland and France, with repertoire including Bartók (with Bavouzet), Britten,...
Berliner Philharmoniker – Herbert Blomstedt conducts Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen & Ludwig van Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Berliner Philharmoniker – Herbert Blomstedt conducts Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen & Ludwig van Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Sep 23, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Saturday, September 23, 2023 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin While the Enescu Festival was hosting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, with Klaus Mäkelä (Debussy, Faune and La mer) and Yuja Wang (both of Ravel’s Piano Concertos), the venerable...
Enescu Festival 2023 – Orchestre National de France. Cristian Măcelaru conducts Enescu’s Third Symphony & Romanian Rhapsody No.1, with Kirill Gerstein playing Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.

Enescu Festival 2023 – Orchestre National de France. Cristian Măcelaru conducts Enescu’s Third Symphony & Romanian Rhapsody No.1, with Kirill Gerstein playing Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.

Sep 22, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Videos

George Enescu with Yehudi Menuhin Friday, September 22, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania Following their Rachmaninov encore last night,...