| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 21-Feb-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | The Philharmonia celebrate music: Shostakovich's Fifteenth Symphony |
 Britten’s Death in Venice suite, arranged by Steuart Bedford, is a continuous piece of music taken from the opera. As such, it is an extremely scenic work and even though it has its moments, I could not help but long for the actual opera rather than these excerpts (thankfully it will be performed by ENO later this year). The suite starts off rather calmly, but soon we found out that the stars of the piece were the percussion instruments.Read full review... | |
| 25-Oct-2012 Birmingham Symphony Hall | Harrell, Chailly and the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig delight in Birmingham |
 In an era in which orchestras are supposed to have lost their distinctive 20th-century sounds, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig is one that retains its characteristic dark hue, with fascinating wind timbres that simply refuse to blend into a homogenised whole. And yet there is refinement and virtuosity to match the world’s best orchestras. The orchestra is enjoying something of a renaissance under the stewardship of Riccardo Chailly, Gewandhauskapellmeister since 2005.Read full review... | |
| 25-Oct-2012 Birmingham Symphony Hall | Shostakovich and Rachmaninov with Chailly and the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig |
 Arguably the highest-profile visiting orchestra of the season, Riccardo Chailly brought his Leipzig orchestra to Birmingham for a duo of 20th-century Russian works. The large audience was not disappointed, Rachmaninov’s second symphony in particular shining in a magnificent performance.
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| 13-Jun-2011 Concertgebouw: Main Hall | Shostakovich and Stravinsky in the Concertgebouw |
 Tonight’s concert at the Concertgebouw started with the Romance from Shostakovich’s film score The Gadfly, as a tribute to the conductor Yakov Kreizberg, who sadly passed away last March. A popular piece with violinists, the Romance is a beautifully melodic work, perhaps one of Shostakovich’s most popular ones. The solo violin melody was played by concertmaster Olga Martinova, who, like the entire orchestra, played very well.
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