| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 9-Apr-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Brahms meets Schoenberg: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in London for The Rest is Noise |
 Tonight’s The Rest is Noise concert, featuring the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas and Yefim Bronfman, took on one of 20th-century music’s biggest questions. Anyone who has been following this huge concert series – or indeed the accompanying BBC documentary The Sound and the Fury – will no doubt be acquainted by now with Arnold Schoenberg and his angry, radical ways.Read full review... | |
| 17-Feb-2013 Shriver Hall | Anti-diva Magdalena Kožená conquers Baltimore |
 On Sunday night Shriver Hall was packed with Baltimore opera fans who had gathered to enjoy a solo recital of the internationally acclaimed opera “anti-diva” Magdalena Kožená. True to her reputation, this Czech mezzo-soprano came on stage dressed in a casual black gown, which (ignoring the dress change tradition established by her stage colleagues) she chose to wear all night long. The program that Kožená picked for her Shriver Hall debut turned out to be equally bold and untraditional.Read full review... | |
| 26-Jan-2013 Meyerson Symphony Center | Sturm und Drang: Minor-Key Mozart at the Meyerson |
 Capping off their two-weekend Mozart Festival, the Dallas Symphony played three minor-key masterworks this weekend, plus one major-key selection. Music in minor keys is the exception to the Mozartian rule – only two each of the 27 piano concerti and 41 symphonies are in minor. Perhaps Mozart saved minor keys for truly extraordinary musical statements, or else perceived his audiences (or patrons) to prefer his sunnier works. In any case, those minor-key works Mozart did write tend to be special for reasons surpassing their mere scarcity.
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| 18-Jan-2013 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | Bronfman, Maazel and the New York Phil in seamless interpretations of Brahms and Sibelius |
 Johannes Brahms was a Romantic with a capital R. Born six years after Beethoven’s death, Brahms was so determined to continue the composer’s colossal musical legacy that he labored over his First Symphony (often nicknamed “Beethoven’s Tenth”) for over a decade. He spent nearly as much time laboring over his Piano Concerto no. 1 in D minor, an all-engrossing display of raw passion that explores virtually the entire spectrum of human emotion in less than an hour.
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