| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 17-Mar-2012 Queen's Hall, Edinburgh | Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Stravinsky, Beamish and Beethoven |
 The seemingly endless variety of conducting styles in existence intrigues me. This is particularly striking when one conductor displays three styles, in as many pieces, in a single concert. Joseph Swenson (Conductor Emeritus of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra) began this programme by guiding the SCO through Stravinsky's Concerto in E flat, 'Dumbarton Oaks' (1937). This was a performance brimming with vitality. His movements were tiny: a flick of his right pinkie cueing in a pair of watchful double bassists; a rotation of the left wrist endorsing phrasing in the violins.Read full review... | |
| 13-Jan-2012 Sage: Hall Two | Dazzling American fireworks from Northern Sinfonia and Nicholas Collon |
 It was hard to believe, listening to this evening’s Late Mix concert at the Sage, that three out of the four pieces played had in fact been substituted at the last minute after a soloist’s sudden illness meant that the original programme couldn’t be performed. Especially as all three pieces retained the spirit of adventure and exploration in which the Late Mix series specialises. If you’ve programmed Richard Ayres, you can’t just drop in a bit of Mozart.Read full review... | |
| 17-Dec-2010 Barbican Centre: Hall | BBC Symphony Orchestra do Prokofiev 6 |
 Due to the snow, I arrived to the Barbican too late to catch Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks. However I made it in time for the premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie’s Oboe Concerto (BBC/Borletti-Buitoni Trust co-commission).
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