| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 17-Feb-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | Trenchant Beethoven and Bruckner from Haitink, Pires and the LSO |
 The London Symphony Orchestra presented the themes of the first movement of Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto very nicely indeed, benefiting from the clarity, moderation and wisdom with which a lifetime of experience has endowed their conductor for this concert. The string sound was beautiful and full but with plenty of room for detail, and the woodwinds gave their gentle interjections with perfectly judged crescendos. All was right with the world and it sounded as though we were in for a nice, comfortable concerto as a prelude to the mighty Bruckner symphony to follow.
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| 7-Sep-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 75: Haydn and Strauss with the Vienna Philharmonic |
 It was in the 1790s, when Haydn came to England at the invitation of London-based impresario Johann Peter Salomon, that the twelve 'London' symphonies were composed. They were to be Haydn's last essays in the genre, examples in which, he said, he had to 'change many things for the English public'. Yet, whatever Haydn's vernacular adaptations to the symphony were, this was an account that had an indelible Viennese stamp, in both sound and approach.
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| 6-Sep-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 73: Perahia, Haitink and the Vienna Philharmonic |
 Beethoven's music in general, and the Fourth Piano Concerto in particular, is on the cusp between the Classical and the Romantic: the Classical forms are stretched to their limit but left unbroken, while Beethoven provides plenty of opportunity for a Romantically-minded interpreter to charge off in any number of wild directions. In the first half of last night's Prom, Murray Perahia and the Vienna Philharmonic gave us a performance very much towards the Classical end of the spectrum, with a sound fascinatingly different from many Beethoven interpretations.
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| 25-Aug-2012 Großes Festspielhaus | In Salzburg, unflinching Bruckner from Bernard Haitink and the Vienna Philharmonic |
 The Vienna Philharmonic has received a mixed reception at the Proms in recent years, but this programme of Beethoven and Bruckner with Murray Perahia and Bernard Haitink, which was performed in Salzburg this weekend and tours to London next week, will be sure to be met with critical approval.
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