| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 27-Apr-2013 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | Emanuel Ax, Alan Gilbert and the New York Phil lay out their craft with Bruckner and Mozart |
 Maurice Jerry Beznos.jpg) Saturday night, Avery Fisher Hall saw a solid and well-crafted final performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 25 and Bruckner’s Symphony no. 3. The piano concerto was cleanly executed and so polished as to allow the Mozartean patina to shine clearly through. Emanuel Ax played with a crisp yet sonorous articulation which seems to be typical of good interpretations of the concerto, and overall played exceedingly well.Read full review... | |
| 23-Mar-2013 Severance Hall | Alan Gilbert leads Cleveland Orchestra in Ravel's Mother Goose and Mahler's mighty Seventh |
 Alan Gilbert, Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, was an unexpected guest this past weekend at Severance Hall. Pierre Boulez had been announced as the guest conductor, but a few weeks ago he was forced to cancel his appearance for medical reasons. Mr Gilbert, who was an assistant conductor to Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland in the 1990s, was engaged to take Boulez’s place, and the announced program remained: Ravel’s complete Ma mère l’oye (“Mother Goose”) ballet music and Mahler’s Symphony no. 7.Read full review... | |
| 13-Mar-2013 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | NY Philharmonic and Choral Artists blaze through Bach's culminating masterwork |
 Under conductor Alan Gilbert, the New York Philharmonic and the New York Choral Artists gave an inspired but slightly uneven performance of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor on Wednesday night. Playing with great panache as well as a mindful sense of the historical weight of the piece, the vocalists and musicians gave bristling and glistening life to a timeless work. Slight hiccups in vocal performance included, the music came across brilliantly. If the decisive blow is always struck left-handed, then Gilbert and the full choral-symphonic ensemble struck with both.
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| 21-Feb-2013 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | Anxious dreams from Bloch, Brahms, Rouse and the New York Philharmonic |
 Dreams and anxieties, religious and otherwise, were the dominant themes at Thursday night’s New York Philharmonic performance.
The concert program worked backwards in time, starting with Phantasmata by composer-in-residence Christopher Rouse (completed in 1985), followed by Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo (1916), and finishing with Brahms’ Symphony no. 1 (published in 1877). The effect was such that the newness of the first piece conferred upon the following pieces a sense of freshness; the Bloch and Brahms felt just as “now” as the Rouse.
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