| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 22-Feb-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Fun, romance, and insanity with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall |
 Poor Ravel. He was expelled from the Conservatoire; he was consistently rejected for the Prix de Rome; he never married. Along with his contemporaries Stravinsky, Debussy and Satie, he made enormous strides in 20th-century music, but is unfortunately remembered best (when at all) for the plodding fifteen minutes of his 1928 composition Boléro. In 1928, the French composer traveled to New York and was exposed to contemporary big band music; he said of this subsequent work that “each movement of my new concerto has some jazz in it”.Read full review... | |
| 17-Jan-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Thrilling Shostakovich and Ravel from Yannick and the Philadelphia Orchestra |
 In an interview with Charlie Rose a couple of years ago, Sir Simon Rattle made the startling comment that conductors only become “competent” after they turn 60. If that’s the case, it’s really quite difficult to imagine just how “competent” young Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin might be after more than another two decades on the podium, particularly with a band in front of him as supple and giving as the revitalized – and no longer bankrupt – Philadelphia Orchestra.
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| 18-May-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Maria João Pires and the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall |
 The Philadelphia Orchestra was at Carnegie Hall this weekend, led by Chief Conductor Charles Dutoit and joined by pianist Maria João Pires, to perform works by Glinka, Chopin, and Ravel. After this season, American audiences will presumably be seeing less of Mr. Dutoit on this side of the Pond – his term in Philadelphia will be over, and he will continue in his position as Artistic Director of the Royal Philharmonic.Read full review... | |
| 29-Apr-2012 Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, Verizon Hall | The Philadelphia Orchestra in works by Brahms, Webern and Schumann |
 For its concert on Sunday afternoon, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Simon Rattle performed symphonic works which, the programme notes claimed, “invite us to think about the possibilities of hidden musical meaning”.
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