| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 22-Mar-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | Incisiveness and virtuosity: Adams, Tippett and Shostakovich with the BBC Symphony Orchestra |
.jpg) What a wonderful season the BBC Symphony Orchestra is having. Adventurous, not fashion-conscious programming, and a crispness in the playing that is quite distinctive and utterly refreshing. And whoever had the idea to feature the works of Michael Tippett, in Britten’s centenary year, needs to be promoted. This evening’s concert, conducted by Alexander Vedernikov, was a thrilling evenings in the concert hall. It was like a Prom, without the cavernous acoustic.Read full review... | |
| 6-Feb-2013 Birmingham Symphony Hall | Exceptional Sibelius and barnstorming Britten from Osborne, Volkov and the CBSO |
 Ilan Volkov, a regular guest conductor with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, is a passionate advocate form contemporary and modern music. His programmes with his current orchestra, the Iceland Symphony, and his previous one, the BBC Scottish Symphony, often consist entirely of such works. This concert, featuring works from the 20th and 21st centuries, was ideally suited to Volkov’s lucid and intelligent conducting.
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| 17-Nov-2012 City Recital Hall Angel Place | Russian visions with the ACO in Sydney |
 A feast of Russian chamber music was what was on offer for the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s latest concert. Featuring music by Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky in a program entitled Russian Visions, the ACO with guest soloists Steven Osborne and David Elton provided an evening of music which was visionary, electrifying and intense in equal measures. The ACO’s programs are always carefully constructed and innovative, and tonight’s was no exception, beginning with an extremely effective reworking of Prokofiev’s Visions Fugitives.Read full review... | |
| 12-Oct-2012 Bridgewater Hall | BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena: Mozart and Mahler |
 It must be a strange feeling, sitting down to play a short work while surrounded by empty chairs waiting for a big second half symphony. Tonight Steven Osborne and the modest proportions of Mozart’s orchestra were given the task of invigorating the Piano Concerto no. 19 and avoiding an almost inevitable feeling of it being a pre-Mahler apéritif.
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