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KlostersTales of Love and Friendship

© Louie Thain
Wagner, Mozart, Elgar
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen; Edward Gardner; Veronika Eberle; Timothy Ridout

La Roque d'AnthéronNuit du piano Musique Française

Geneva International Music Competition
Couperin, Poulenc, Milhaud, Bonis, Franck, Boulanger, Saint-Saëns, Ravel
Adèle Charvet; Edgar Moreau; Emmanuel Pahud; Jean-Frédéric Neuburger

La Roque d'AnthéronNuit du piano Musique Française

Geneva International Music Competition
Couperin, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Messiaen, Berlioz, Hahn, Poulenc
Adèle Charvet; Edgar Moreau; Emmanuel Pahud; Jean-Frédéric Neuburger

La Roque d'AnthéronNuit du piano Musique Française

Geneva International Music Competition
Debussy, Rameau, Dutilleux, Bizet, De Montgéroult, Neuburger
Adèle Charvet; Edgar Moreau; Emmanuel Pahud; Jean-Frédéric Neuburger

LenoxTanglewood Recital Series: Laurie Anderson Amelia

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Anderson
Dennis Russell Davies; Laurie Anderson; Martha Mooke

GoultQuatuor Elmire

Festival de la Musique du Luberon
Haydn, Bacewicz, Mendelssohn
Quatuor Elmire; David Petrlik; Yoan Brakha; Hortense Fourrier

RoussillonNovo Quartet

Festival de la Musique du Luberon
Mozart, Shaw, Nielsen
Novo Quartet; Kaya Kato Møller; Nikolai Vasili Nedergaard; Daniel Śledziński
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Appalachian Spring closes Seattle Chamber Music Society summer party

James Ehnes leads Appalachian Spring © Jena Poppe
The self-styled “world’s largest chamber music party” ends an eventful festival with rare early Shostakovich, Grieg’s full-blooded Cello Sonata and Appalachian Spring heard in its original scoring for 13 instruments. 
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Expansive: Paavo Järvi conducts grand-scale repertoire in Pärnu

Paavo Järvi conducts the Estonian Festival Orchestra © Kaupo Kikkas
Carl Nielsen’s Sinfonia espansiva forms the highlight as the Estonian Festival Orchestra brings full-throated symphonic sound to Pärnu. 
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Still waters run deep: the Britten Sinfonia at Wigmore Hall

Timothy Ridout and the Britten Sinfonia © Darius Weinberg | Wigmore Hall
Timothy Ridout plays Britten and Larcher in a Wigmore Hall programme with the Britten Sinfonia. 
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Four hands, 32 strings: Seattle Chamber Music Society’s opener

James Ehnes leads Mendelssohn’s Octet © Jena Poppe

An evening of piano four-hands and Mendelssohn’s Octet launch Seattle Chamber Music Society’s summer festival, with distinct personalities repeatedly braiding into something larger.

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Slow movements take the palm in the Quatuor Ébène’s Wigmore Beethoven

Quatuor Ébène at Wigmore Hall © Darius Weinberg | Wigmore Hall.
Slow movements prove the highlights of the latest instalment of the Quatuor Ébène’s Beethoven cycle. What would Elgar and August “Nimrod” Jaeger have thought?
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Talent to burn: the Woolf Quartet dazzles at Bradfield Festival

Woolf Quartet © Sydney Mariano

The Bradfield Festival strikes gold in programming the Woolf Quartet, a young ensemble on the brink of a spectacular future.

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Birds on the Moon: a moving tribute at ChamberFest Cleveland

Michelle Barzel Ross © Erica Brenner Productions
Composer and violinist Michelle Barzell Ross leads a carefully crafted homage to a late mentor and friend in Birds on the Moon.
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