| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 19-Dec-2012 University of Leeds Great Hall | The Orchestra of Opera North sounds fresh and new in Leeds University's Great Hall |
 Leeds is so lucky to have virtuoso violinist David Greed still within reach, ready and available to perform as a soloist at concerts like this with the excellent orchestra of which he was the youngest leader in the country when it was formed in 1978. It was really thrilling to experience The Lark Ascending live, and to see him standing there just a few feet in front of the audience.Read full review... | |
| 6-Oct-2012 St George's Bristol | British in Bristol: Stephen Hough and Bristol Classical Players at St George's |
 Two encores, a virtuoso and a cracking orchestra. This concert truly celebrated the best of British music and musicians, as the first concert in St George’s “Best of British” concert season. The scene was set with an array of red, white and blue amongst the orchestra in several forms: bow ties, flags, ribbons and other accessories. The stage was built forward for this occasion with an impressively large group of instrumentalists for the Bristol Classical Players surrounding a grand piano for the internationally renowned pianist Stephen Hough.Read full review... | |
| 31-Jul-2012 Hollywood Bowl | Powerful Brahms, lithe Elgar with Bronfman, Bringuier, and the LA Phil |
 Oded Antman.jpg) Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto no. 2 and Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations. Both solidly—not to mention stolidly—popular works. Safe programming choices. Maybe too safe. Both works are well loved. Well worn, too. Think of the Brahms. Every pianist of note that has ever lived (and will ever live) has recorded and played it. Can you blame the listener if they cringe just a little at the sight of the program and groan "not again?"
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| 23-Feb-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic study musical portraiture |
 The composers Debussy, Dvořák, Schoenberg and Elgar and aren’t often associated with each other, but they featured together in the first of three concerts in Carnegie Hall with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. The works on the program, it turned out, all dated from the 1890s and all were program music. But Rattle and the orchestra, while technically flawless, only seemed to connect with the material at some points.
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