| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 13-Apr-2013 Severance Hall | James Feddeck leads an exciting rethinking of Carmina Burana in Cleveland |
 When Cleveland Orchestra music director Franz Welser-Möst had to bow out of this past weekend’s performances of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana due to a recent back injury, the orchestra’s talented young assistant conductor, James Feddeck, inherited a high-profile assignment. The set of four concerts had been heavily promoted and were sold out. Feddeck chose not to take the safe and easy way out, with a bland run-through; instead he totally rethought Carmina and came up with a strikingly fresh and exciting reading.Read full review... | |
| 6-Apr-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Stravinsky and Carl Orff team up the LPO and Hans Graf at the Royal Festival Hall |
 The inter-war years produced some of the most dynamic and popular choral works that have been composed since the 18th century. Tonight’s London Philharmonic Orchestra concert, conducted by Hans Graf, combined two very different results of this flowering. Both masterpieces in their own way, they unexpectedly complemented each other and made for an entertaining concert.
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| 21-Mar-2013 Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall | A stunning experience with Sydney Symphony in Carmina Burana |
 One of the pleasures of attending live concerts is discovering sounds that recordings often mask or fail to highlight. Occasionally, the sheer enormity of the experience can be so stunning that I reel from it for days. The “2013 Season Special Event” of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra on Thursday was one of those occasions. The main attraction of the evening was Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, but to whet our appetite guest conductor Long Yu led the orchestra in Enchantements oubliés by contemporary Chinese composer Chen Qigang.
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| 30-Aug-2012 Hollywood Bowl | Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos' crushing Carmina Burana at the Hollywood Bowl |
 What a stark contrast between the visual and the aural at last Thursday’s concert at the Hollywood Bowl. On stage was the 79-year-old conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, appearing frail as he shuffled towards the podium; the gauntness of his features accentuated by his suit which hung loosely from his frame.Read full review... | |
