| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 1-Mar-2012 Bridgewater Hall | The Hallé and Edward Gardner: Beethoven 8 |
 By far the smallest audience yet for the Hallé’s Beethoven Symphonies cycle gathered for this eighth instalment, conducted by Edward Gardner, and the absentees missed an evening of supreme charm and playfulness.
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| 3-Feb-2012 Église de Saanen, Saanen | Revelatory Bartók from Camerata Bern |
 If you go to enough concerts, it’s bound to happen to you every now and then: the programme includes a work that you weren’t particularly looking forward to, and the performers blow you away, utterly transforming your view of the piece. In this case, the performers were Camerata Bern and the work was Bartók’s Divertimento for strings.
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| 21-Jun-2011 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | A Brief History of the Symphony |
| Three symphonies in one programme! Anyone who has ever sat through all ninety minutes of Mahler’s 3rd Symphony would be permitted a slight shudder upon reading the concert order of Sir Simon Rattle’s latest performance with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Fortunately for all those with babysitters or tube tickets, however, these works were as far removed from Mahler’s enormous work as it is possible to be: the Haydn and Mozart symphonies performed last night were each shorter than the first movement of Mahler’s.
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