| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 15-May-2013 Birmingham Symphony Hall | CBSO's all-American programme a triumph at Symphony Hall, Birmingham |
 The reason for this all-American programme was ostensibly pragmatic: the concert was to coincide with the opening night of the British-American Business Council annual conference. In practice, the programme was a triumph. Significantly, dozens of schoolchildren were present to witness an evening of fine and involving music-making.
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| 26-Apr-2013 Nasher Sculpture Center | Handsome animals: An evening of Cummings and Ives in Dallas |
 “It’s a contra-alto clarinet,” explained Ben Goldberg to an audience puzzled at the first sight of this long, coiled silver instrument. “But it can be used to clean your sink in an emergency.” The ensemble Tin Hat – comprising Mr Goldberg on clarinets (B flat and contra-alto), Carla Kihlstedt on violin and vocals, guitarist Mark Orton, and Rob Reich playing piano and accordion – appeared this past Friday on the latest presentation of Soundings, the new music series at the Nasher Sculpture Center.Read full review... | |
| 27-Jan-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | Adams conducts Adams at the Barbican with the LSO and St Lawrence String Quartet |
 Inspiration for a composition can come in many forms; a letter from Clara Schumann, the brutality of Stalin's police, growing deaf or hearing birdsong. The final concert of John Adams’ short residency at the Barbican focused on a more reverent strain of influence, however: the peculiar tendency for living composers to want to reference dead ones.
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| 11-Nov-2012 Siuntio Church | The Kuusisto effect: Brahms, Ives and Ligeti in Siuntio, Finland |
 Last Sunday, Pekka Kuusisto performed in Siuntio, a Finnish town not so far from Helsinki, as part of the Lux Musicae Festival, together with pianist Joonas Ahonen and hornist Hervé Joulain. In the penumbra of the candles and the gentle lights of a beautiful church from the 1400s, the first notes of Brahms’ Violin Sonata in G major resounded.
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