| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 28-Apr-2013 The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall | All the right decisions in the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's Beethoven concert in Toronto |
 Thomas Dausgaard conducts with his body. A shift in his posture, without engaging hands or arms, is enough indication for his Swedish Chamber Orchestra to execute subtly graduated dynamic shifts. And perhaps it was the sensitive acoustics of Koerner Hall, but I don’t recall having heard a finer separation of sonic textures and registers than those Dausgaard elicited from the dialogue of self and soul in Beethoven’s Coriolan overture.Read full review... | |
| 3-Apr-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Boston Symphony Orchestra soars through Hindemith, Rachmaninov and Bartók |
 You might not think that a conductor nearing his 80th birthday and leading an orchestra from a swivel chair would be as effective as a conductor in full health, but you would be wrong. On Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra careened through a delightfully energetic performance led by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, a frequent guest conductor for this orchestra and several others across North America. Mr Frühbeck de Burgos, even while seated, drew crisp interpretations of three works composed within a thirteen-year span, from 1930 to 1943.Read full review... | |
| 8-Dec-2012 Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall | Totally Tchaikovsky with Garrick Ohlsson and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra |
 Wojciech Grzedzinski.jpg) The Sydney Symphony concluded their mini Russian series with an all-Tchaikovsky concert featuring one of his lesser-known concertos and a most beloved symphony.
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| 29-Sep-2012 Meyerson Symphony Center | Russian Romantics: Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky in Dallas |
 Kacper Pempel.jpg) The Dallas Symphony Orchestra have had a couple of high-profile guest performers in town for their most recent series of concerts. They presented works by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky, a piano concerto and a symphony respectively, in a program that, although disastrously designed, was redeemed by some stellar playing.
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