| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 13-Dec-2012 Birmingham Symphony Hall | CBSO and Andris Nelsons: Beethoven 3 and Triple Concerto |
 Andris Nelsons marked the second instalment in the Birmingham Beethoven cycle with two works of the earliest years of the 19th century, featuring a solid account of the Eroica and a superb performance of the Triple Concerto.
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| 28-Jul-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 19: BBC Symphony Orchestra with Dausgaard and Müller-Schott |
 Black v2.jpg) It’s hard to say who was more excited about Prom 19: Thomas Dausgaard, who conducted the whole thing with lashings of arm-waving vigour, or the Proms audience, who enjoyed the performance so much that they deliberately (and justifiably) clapped between the movements. Perhaps some conflict between two such highly enthused forces was always inevitable – particularly as the concert finished with that notorious clapper’s purgatory, Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony, whose rousing penultimate movement always provokes at least some applause.Read full review... | |
| 14-Jul-2012 Blossom Music Center | Tchaikovsky at Blossom Festival: Sinaisky and Müller-Schott make Cleveland Orchestra debuts |
 Blossom Music Center, summer home of The Cleveland Orchestra, is about 25 miles south of Cleveland, just to the north of Akron, in a beautiful wooded area nestled next to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Opening in 1968, Blossom presents a wide variety of concerts, both orchestral and popular, and theatrical events each summer. The parabola-shaped Pavilion, with its stained wood stage walls, sits at the bottom of a natural hill, thus creating a grassy amphitheater for audience members who wish to sit outside under the stars.Read full review... | |
| 27-Jan-2012 De Doelen: Grote Zaal | Stravinsky and Shostakovich from the Rotterdam Philharmonic |
 Stravinsky’s Scherzo Fantastique, Op. 3 is one of his earliest works, as its opus number would suggest. There are very few composers who can truly create a fairytale atmosphere in their music, but Stravinsky was one of the best at it. In a way it is obvious that the Scherzo Fantastique is an early work – it doesn’t yet have the strong melodies, off-beat rhythms and idiosyncrasies of his later works, but it’s definitely worth listening to.Read full review... | |
