| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 24-Apr-2013 Bridgewater Hall | Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer play Beethoven and Brahms in Manchester |
 Iván Fischer conducted the Budapest Festival Orchestra in impassioned performances of Dohnányi, Beethoven and Brahms to an appreciative, if criminally small, audience in Manchester.
More than any other Music Director one could think of, Fischer has a large claim to the BFO being his orchestra. Since founding the orchestra in 1983, he has been its only chief and has guided it to wide acclaim. Many would question the value of orchestra league tables, but it must say something that such a youthful enterprise made its way to ninth in the world in one such table a couple of years ago.
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| 20-Nov-2012 Birmingham Symphony Hall | Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra's Beethoven Journey in Birmingham |
 “The Beethoven Journey” is a remarkable collaboration between pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. According to Andsnes, it is “a multi-season project that will make the composer’s music the centrepiece of my life as a performer and recording artist”, and it will feature these musicians touring throughout venues in North America, Europe and Asia as well as releasing all the Beethoven piano concertos on CD.
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| 5-Oct-2012 Walt Disney Concert Hall | Andsnes joins Dudamel and the LA Phil in Beethoven |
 Long ago in my former life as a teenage record store clerk, I recall a customer who came into the store one chilly, autumn evening. A ruddy-faced man in his 50s wearing a beige cashmere coat approached the counter with a bundle of box sets in his arms; his face nearly disappearing between his scarf and his wool hat, with only the tips of his black, horn-rimmed glasses seemingly visible amidst the swirl of plaid.Read full review... | |
| 16-Feb-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Sir Roger Norrington and Jeremy Denk Take Command of the Stage at Carnegie Hall |
Dennis Callahan.jpg) The Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall is enough to catch anyone’s breath. But it wasn’t the grandeur of the hall that struck me; it was the fact that the conductor’s podium was missing from the stage. A bold statement: it was clear Sir Roger Norrington was going to conduct the Orchestra of St. Luke’s his own way.
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