| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 22-Feb-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | Passionately troubled: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Dausgaard in Nielsen, Prokofiev and Bloch |
 Whoever curated last night’s BBC SO concert, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, needs a medal. Not only were the pieces united by virtue of being composed at the same time during the dark years of the First World War, but also each composer seems to find something passionately troubled to say which reflected their vintage – an unusual combination of neglected works, two of which are masterpieces.
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| 21-Feb-2013 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | Anxious dreams from Bloch, Brahms, Rouse and the New York Philharmonic |
 Dreams and anxieties, religious and otherwise, were the dominant themes at Thursday night’s New York Philharmonic performance.
The concert program worked backwards in time, starting with Phantasmata by composer-in-residence Christopher Rouse (completed in 1985), followed by Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo (1916), and finishing with Brahms’ Symphony no. 1 (published in 1877). The effect was such that the newness of the first piece conferred upon the following pieces a sense of freshness; the Bloch and Brahms felt just as “now” as the Rouse.
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| 17-Jun-2012 Sutton House, Homerton High Street | Trotovšek and Misumi: A duo to watch out for |
 ‘Schubert’s A minor’ is a prefix that rolls off the tongue of concertgoers everywhere with the comfortable familiarity of a home-cooked meal.Read full review... | |
| 7-Nov-2010 Wentz Concert Hall | Hear, O Israel! |
| Since the summer of 2009, I have had the privilege to study voice under Dr. Robert Holst, assistant professor of music at Lewis University. Dr. Holst is also director of the Downers Grove Choral Society, a highly-regarded community chorus in my area. Last year at his bidding, I attended the Society's dynamite and spiritually uplifting 50th-anniversary performance of Handel's Messiah, an unforgettable experience which made me decide to attend their season opener concert featuring the works of Handel, Bach, and Bloch.
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