| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 17-May-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Brains and beauty: Barbara Hannigan, Sir Simon Rattle and Philadelphia Orchestra in New York |
 The Philadelphia Orchestra was visibly enjoying their evening at Carnegie Hall with Sir Simon Rattle, their frequent guest conductor who nearly became their music director. In a program of early modern classics and a perennial Beethoven favorite, energy and spirits were high and in good supply.
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| 27-Apr-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Music from dark times: London Philharmonic Orchestra at The Rest is Noise |
 Tonight’s concert was a prime example of the solid programming of Southbank Centre’s The Rest is Noise festival. The concert, titled “Music from Dark Times”, included pieces by Webern, Berg, Bartók and Martinů, written between 1934 and 1941, which were indeed dark times for all these composers. In Vladimir Jurowski’s introduction, the conductor explained that this was one the most challenging evenings of the year for him and the orchestra.Read full review... | |
| 8-Mar-2013 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | New opera, ancient tales: George Benjamin's Written on skin at the Royal Opera |
 21st century opera is a broad church. There aren’t many of us, I suppose, who are intimately familiar with the biographical accounts of the lives of 13th century troubadours, popular at the time in Spain and south west France. But Martin Crimp and George Benjamin, librettist and composer of Written on skin, aren’t exactly run of the mill people.
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| 10-Feb-2013 Southbank Centre: Queen Elizabeth Hall | Stravinsky's Renard at The Rest is Noise with Barbara Hannigan and the London Sinfonietta |
 Venturing into the Paris of the 1910s and 1920s, the Southbank Centre’s The Rest is Noise festival continues its journey through a brambly thicket of 20th-century music. Sunday’s programme focused on the output of Igor Stravinsky, the Russian composer who famously engendered riotous uproar at the Paris Opera House in 1913 with his savage ballet Le sacre du printemps. Yet 100 years after this momentous event, Stravinsky’s music still holds surprises in store for us.Read full review... | |
