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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Klosters Music 2024

The Russian conductor and pianist Maxim Emelyanychev.

July 27 – Aug 4, 2024
Landstrasse 177, 7250 Klosters-Serneus, Switzerland

Remarkable, how much quality can be shoehorned into a mere week and a day. Maxim Emelyanychev and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen embark on “voyages of discovery” by way of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”) and the folk-tinged Karelia Suite of Sibelius. Youthful mastery is on offer from the Canadian poet of the keyboard Jan Lisiecki in Grieg’s crowd-pleasing Piano Concerto and the aristocratic Russian-British Alina Ibragimova in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3. Nuria Rial, soprano, and Maurice Steger, recorder, team up for Baroque music of Spain. And then there’s Thomas Hampson, the Yankee baritone who dared to model his career on that of Germany’s legendary Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and made it work. But no, he comes not bearing Schubert or Mahler this time, but pages from the American songbook. —Matthew Gurewitsch