The Week in Concerts: Vienna and Lisbon (17-23.11)

A personal selection of the most interesting concerts to go to in Vienna and Lisbon on the week starting on 17 November 2014.

Vienna

• Konzerthaus, 18 Nov: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Robin Ticciati/Vesselina Kasarova (Fauré, Berlioz, Ravel, Debussy).
• Musikverein, 18 Nov: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano (Bach, Beethoven, Brahms).
• Konzerthaus, 19 Nov: Quatuor Modigliani and “guests” (Schubert)
• Konzerthaus, 21 and 23 Nov: Vienna Symphony Orchestra/K. Buniatishvili/Ph. Jordan (21.11 – Fridays@7: Schubert, Liszt, Wagner; 23.11: Schubert, Shostakovich, Beethoven).
• Musikverein, 22 and 23 Nov: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Semyon Bychkov/Kirill Gerstein (Glinka, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky).

For opera see here and here.

Lisbon

• Gulbenkian Foundation, 17 Nov: Piotr Anderszewski, piano (Bach, Schumann, Szymanowski).
• Gulbenkian Foundation, 20 Nov: Evgeny Kissin, piano (Beethoven, Prokofiev, Chopin, Liszt).
• Gulbenkian Foundation, 21 Nov: Gulbenkian Orchestra/Frédéric Chaslin/Joseph Calleja (opera arias).
• São Carlos National Theater, 22 Nov: Portuguese Symphony Orchestra/João Tiago Santos (Ravel, Shostakovich/Barshay, Schreker).
• Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), 23 Nov: Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa/Michael Zilm (Pinho Vargas, Bruckner).
• Gulbenkian Foundation, 23 Nov: Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música/Michael Sanderling/Pedro Gomes (Mozart, Shostakovich).