| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 13-Jul-2012 Cheltenham Town Hall | Three Pieces from 1918 at the Cheltenham Music Festival |
 Red, white and blue bunting, with matching lighting, adorned the balconies of Cheltenham Town Hall, setting a patriotic scene for a concert of music from the year that World War I ended. Television presenter Julia Somerville opened the evening sat at a vintage newsdesk with her own careful research, for which she can be highly commended. She was followed by a number of well-known soloists including Katherine Gowers and Steven Isserlis for an exciting programme of works composed in 1918.
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| 11-Jul-2012 Pittville Pump Room | Back to 1915: Kraggerud, Isserlis and more at the Cheltenham Music Festival |
 The concert opened with BBC newsreader Julia Somerville, summarising news from the year 1915 at an old-fashioned broadcasting desk complete with microphone. It was informative, and set the scene for this recital, one in a series of ‘time capsule’ concerts, solely featuring music composed in 1915 – including two of Debussy’s last chamber pieces.
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| 4-May-2012 St George's Bristol | Isserlis, Faust, Levin and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Bristol |
 The night had a programme of three soloists, three pieces and three significant composers in music history – Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The concept of the concert was to display a span of music from the high Classical era to the early Romantic, where each of the composers overlap in style through three generations. Haydn was known for establishing the symphony, and so we heard his ‘London Symphony’, no. 104, which is the last symphony of twelve that he wrote late in his life over two visits to England.Read full review... | |
| 17-Mar-2011 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | A Brahms baguette |
 Bread, filling, bread. Overture, concerto, symphony. Despite flirtations with open sandwiches, club sandwiches and two-symphony programmes, it seems that in both cases most people stick to tradition. But not the Philharmonia and András Schiff: last night’s programme began with Mendelssohn’s brooding Hebrides Overture, followed by Brahms’ Fourth Symphony. Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B Minor came in the second half, performed by British super-cellist Steven Isserlis.Read full review... | |
