| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 16-Feb-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Revolution in Paris: Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Ravel with the LPO |
 One of the most well-known pieces of the twentieth-century classical repertoire is of course Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring. The Southbank Centre’s Rest is Noise festival could not miss this piece, and tonight’s concert, titled “Revolution in Paris”, coupled it with two other pieces first premièred in Paris: Maurice Ravel’s ballet Ma mère l’oye and Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no. 1.
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| 5-Apr-2012 Walt Disney Concert Hall | LAPO and John Adams perform West coast premiere of Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 9 |
 As Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 9 ground to a halt last Thursday night, cellos and basses trailing off into silence, a few things came into focus. First, there was no missing the irony that Philip Glass, once among the outsiders of the musical world, should nearly a half century later find himself one of the American school of composition's most revered composers; perhaps its dean.Read full review... | |
| 29-Mar-2012 Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, Verizon Hall | Esa-Pekka Salonen with the Philadelphia Orchestra |
 When a guest conductor arrives for a few concerts with an orchestra, he or she doesn’t have very much time to shape his or her interpretation. On some occasions the orchestra successfully adopts the visitor’s style; on others they just play like they always do. In Esa-Pekka Salonen’s concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra last night, the program of Debussy, Bartók, and the Finnish conductor’s own Violin Concerto was more the maestro’s style (cool modernist) than the orchestra’s (rather conservative and Romantic). The playing, however, was mostly typically Philadelphia.Read full review... | |
| 1-Dec-2011 Roy Thomson Hall | TSO, Andrey Boreyko and Leila Josefowicz let the Russian gems shine at Roy Thomson Hall |
 On December 1st, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra welcomed guest conductor Andrey Boreyko to guide them through a journey of "Russian Gems." Boreyko made his debut with the TSO in October 2003 and has had a prolific career through guest conducting and as a music director. He is in his third season as Music Director of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and he is also the Principal Guest Conductor of both the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi San Sebastián in Spain.
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