| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 16-Mar-2013 Usher Hall | Nicola Benedetti's Siver Violin tour at Edinburgh's Usher Hall |
 Last night’s concert in the Usher Hall contained so many different strands, that it defies simple categorisation. One of a series of nine concerts in Scotland, its first objective was clearly to promote Miss Benedetti’s latest CD, The Silver Violin. This recording features tributes to many of the great composers who wrote film music for the silver screen, hence the title. A lavish and expensive tour brochure, with lots of photographs of Miss Benedetti looking by turns glamorous, alluring, pensive and so on, served as programme.Read full review... | |
| 9-Dec-2012 Birmingham Town Hall | Nicola Benedetti and the European Union Chamber Orchestra sparkle in Birmingham |
 What better antidote to the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping than a sackful of festive concertos? With Birmingham’s famous German market in full swing right outside the Town Hall, inside was also packed with concertgoers of all ages eager to hear celebrated violinist Nicola Benedetti. Even the choir benches were full, with the back row nestled under splendid Christmas trees that sparkled either side of the organ.
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| 2-Nov-2011 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Benedetti & Elschenbroich make love in Brahms' Double; LPO play magnificently in Eschenbach's Bruckner |
| One wonders what each of the composers might have thought about being programmed in the same concert. Brahms had some unpleasant things to say about Bruckner, famously that his symphonies were a swindle; and Bruckner remarked that Brahms is Brahms, but he, Bruckner, preferred his own stuff. The transition from the Brahms in the first half to the Bruckner in the second was as though one had stepped out of the civilised confines of the well-furnished drawing room into the vast clarity of an open-air mountainscape. Read full review... | |
