#ClassicsaDay #ClassicalSummer Week 2 2021

Summer is the time of music festivals, which is why the Classics a Day team opted to make it August's theme. The idea is to post performances from summer festivals, either past or present. Some of these events have been going on for decades (if not centuries) so there's a lot to choose from.

But there are also challenges with this theme. Not every festival shares its performances online. Some only offer promotional excerpts. Here are my posts from various festivals for week two of #ClassicalSummer

08/09/21 Aspen Music Festival, 2018

Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. performed by Felix Ardanaz and the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra.

08/10/11 Ravinia Festival, 2021

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass perform in front of the Kohl Kaplan Fountain.

08/11/21 Chamber Music Northwest, 2019

Gloria Chien, piano Soovin Kim, violin, and Sophie Shao, cello play Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67. 

08/12/21 Salzburg Festival, 2005

The Salzburg Festival was started in 1920 and hosted many legendary performers and ensembles over the years. From 2005, this is Valery Gergiev leading the Vienna Philharmonic in a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

08/13/21 Gottingen Handel Festival 2016

This performance of Zadok the Priest, HWV 258 is with the NDR Choir and the FestspielOrchester Göttingen, directed by Laurence Cummings. The ensemble plays with original instruments of the period.