| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 25-Nov-2012 Barbican Centre: Hall | LSO with Semyon Bychkov and Leonidas Kavakos play Berg and Mahler |
 Last season Semyon Bychkov conducted the LSO in an “outstanding” performance of Mahler’s Third Symphony. This year he returned to conduct the First, the “Titan”, achieving similar success in a magnificent performance which radiated youthful zeal.
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| 27-Oct-2012 Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House | The Met's Otello in the cinema |
 The devil, they say, has all the best lines. In yesterday's performance of Verdi's Otello at the Met, the villain was simply sensational. Falk Struckmann's delivery of Jago's Credo in un Dio crudel (“I believe in a cruel God”) was a masterpiece of nihilism, combining power and richness of voice with a tone of pure, matter of fact evil. Throughout the opera, Struckmann avoided overacting: he simply let Boito's and Shakespeare's words do the talking, giving them weight and character through his singing voice.
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| 14-Oct-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Out of the pit and into the Alps with the MET Orchestra |
 The orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House rarely gets out of its pit, but when it does, it plays at Carnegie Hall. Carnegie has a rather different acoustic to the Met – much more closely-held, much more intense – and its unforgiving glare occasionally presented one challenge too many for the MET Orchestra. Still, they acquitted themselves well in this matinée.
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| 8-Aug-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 34: The BBC SO with Bychkov and the Labèques |
 We can never really know why Schubert left his Eighth Symphony unfinished, but that shouldn't stop us from playing such a wonderful piece of music. With its deathly still opening, turbulent central section and gentle slow movement, this symphony is one of Schubert's finest and most frequently performed works.
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