| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 4-Jan-2012 Stadsgehoorzaal | Holland Symfonia's Russian fireworks kick off the new year in Leiden |
 New Year’s concerts have never been that appealing to me: I am not a great lover of Viennese waltzes and that is what most of them consist of. But fortunately this year the Holland Symfonia had a New Years concert with a twist: Russian fireworks. Playing music by Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Khachaturian and Prokofiev, the Holland Symfonia offered an exciting program, of course including some waltzes.
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| 2-Dec-2011 Usher Hall | Osborne delights RSNO fans in Shostakovich Concertos at Usher Hall |
 You could tell that the audience had high hopes for the evening by the packed-out pre-concert talk. The lion's share of this was devoted to a conversation between William Chandler (associate leader of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra) and a very relaxed Steven Osborne, in which they discussed the programme's two piano concertos - and the relatively rare phenomenon of playing two concertos in one evening.Read full review... | |
| 29-Nov-2011 Southbank Centre: Queen Elizabeth Hall | Australian Chamber Orchestra kicks off European tour with a bang |
 In the UK, chamber orchestras these days have a slightly old-fashioned image: groups such as the English Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and the London Mozart Players – who played a vital part in our musical life of the 1970s and 80s – have recently been struggling to maintain their profiles.
Not so the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO), who have just kicked off their European tour with two performances in the UK. Led by the brilliant and energetic violinist Richard Tognetti, the ensemble consists of 17 string players and a handful of wind players from the younger generation.Read full review... | |
| 15-May-2011 Barbican Centre: Hall | LSO and Gergiev perform an all-Russian programme of Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky |
 There was much to enjoy in this evening's concert by the LSO, who were performing this programme for the second time this week. The two piano concertos of Shostakovich were suitably contrasted - though neither takes itself too seriously, the Second is lighter in character, with a tender slow movement to rival the popular concertos of Rachmaninov.
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