| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 28-Apr-2013 The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall | All the right decisions in the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's Beethoven concert in Toronto |
 Thomas Dausgaard conducts with his body. A shift in his posture, without engaging hands or arms, is enough indication for his Swedish Chamber Orchestra to execute subtly graduated dynamic shifts. And perhaps it was the sensitive acoustics of Koerner Hall, but I don’t recall having heard a finer separation of sonic textures and registers than those Dausgaard elicited from the dialogue of self and soul in Beethoven’s Coriolan overture.Read full review... | |
| 22-Feb-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | Passionately troubled: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Dausgaard in Nielsen, Prokofiev and Bloch |
 Whoever curated last night’s BBC SO concert, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, needs a medal. Not only were the pieces united by virtue of being composed at the same time during the dark years of the First World War, but also each composer seems to find something passionately troubled to say which reflected their vintage – an unusual combination of neglected works, two of which are masterpieces.
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| 23-Jan-2013 Roy Thomson Hall | An evening of Mahler brings bitter-sweetness to heightened grounds at the Roy Thomson Hall |
.jpg) “What makes Mahler’s music like opium,” I once got asked. If you enjoy listening to lush melodies and pompous brass calls in fine Wagnerian traditions, or get stimulated sonically by a large orchestra, you have got a foot in the door. To be a full Mahler convert, if you belong to a cohort of listeners curious in the forces of life or the wonders of nature decoded in music, and can tolerate long durations of musical materials in the form of contrasts and repetition, then welcome to the world of Gustav Mahler. The musical challenges are as great to musicians as they are to listeners.Read full review... | |
| 28-Jul-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 19: BBC Symphony Orchestra with Dausgaard and Müller-Schott |
 Black v2.jpg) It’s hard to say who was more excited about Prom 19: Thomas Dausgaard, who conducted the whole thing with lashings of arm-waving vigour, or the Proms audience, who enjoyed the performance so much that they deliberately (and justifiably) clapped between the movements. Perhaps some conflict between two such highly enthused forces was always inevitable – particularly as the concert finished with that notorious clapper’s purgatory, Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony, whose rousing penultimate movement always provokes at least some applause.Read full review... | |
