| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 17-May-2012 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | A Magnificent Mahler 5 from Daniele Gatti and the Philharmonia |
 You can, more often than not, tell how good a performance of Mahler's Fifth will be from its opening trumpet call. Here, the Philharmonia's principal, Alistair Mackie, struck just the right balance between stridency and tragedy. Daniele Gatti's direction of this symphony was not, however, one of balance, still less one of compromise. London audiences have heard a lot of Mahler over the last two or three years, but this performance was surely one of the greatest.Read full review... | |
| 4-Feb-2012 Meyerson Symphony Center | A Fascinating Program of Mozart, Wagner and Debussy |
 In a concert featuring two works of Richard Wagner (one a concert piece, the other an adaptation from an opera score), the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under conductor Jaap van Zweden made their biggest statements in works by Mozart and Debussy. The fascinating program paired the Wagner works, one in each half, with those of the supposedly more “demure” high-classicist and arch-Impressionist. After Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, guest soloist David Fray joined the DSO for Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor, K466.Read full review... | |
