| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 17-Apr-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Der Thielemann brings the Staatskapelle Dresden and Brahms to New York |
 “Der Sir”, they used to call him. The death of Sir Colin Davis has been a strikingly international event, and New York has been no exception. Over at Lincoln Center, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic opened their latest subscription run with “Nimrod” from Elgar’s Enigma Variations, a joint tribute to the British conductor and the people of Boston (another of Sir Colin’s haunts).Read full review... | |
| 7-Apr-2013 Semperoper | A feast of Brahms in Dresden with Thielemann and Batiashvili |
 Whatever our relationship with music we often have moments in our lives where the thing we’ve always loved feels like little more than a habit, or worse still a chore. You go to a concert and sit through it, and you know in your head that the orchestra played well and that the soloists were excellent, but your heart remains unmoved. Since the beginning of April I’d been disenchanted by classical music, for reasons I can’t quite articulate, and I needed an experience to blow the cobwebs away.Read full review... | |
| 3-Apr-2013 Colston Hall | Paavo Järvi, Lisa Batiashvili and the Philharmonia Orchestra at Colston Hall |
 What a night. The conductor, Paavo Järvi, made the evening’s performance riveting, with a modest yet heartfelt performance. There were no egos on the stage, just unpretentious and pure classical music. The programme was three works long: two symphonies either side of a violin concerto. All three works were completely separate in quality and style, which allowed the evening to be diverse and exciting. The Philharmonia Orchestra added more instrumentalists to the stage for each piece, so the next work always felt bigger.
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| 21-Oct-2012 Laeiszhalle: Großer Saal | Lisa Batiashvili and NDR Sinfonieorchester thrill in Hamburg |
 “Royal Albert Hall / Barbican / Usher Hall (delete as necessary) sold out for Sunday morning concert.” How likely is this headline in response to a normal, mid-season concert in Britain? For Hamburg, it is perfectly normal, and the crowds that thronged the Laeiszhalle, young and old, chic and casual, were not to be disappointed. Now in his second year as Principal Conductor of the NDR Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Hengelbrock led his accomplished musicians in a programme which thrilled and moved their audience in equal measure.Read full review... | |
