| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 12-Apr-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis play Jonathan Lloyd, Brahms and Tippett |
 Friday night’s BBC SO concert certainly drew in a large crowd, despite the presence of two unfamiliar works: a new one by Jonathan Lloyd and Tippett’s Fourth Symphony from 1977. The addition of the ever-popular pianist Stephen Hough to the lineup, playing the one of the most challenging concertos in the repertoire, Brahms’ First, must have helped the numbers.
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| 18-Jan-2013 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | Bronfman, Maazel and the New York Phil in seamless interpretations of Brahms and Sibelius |
 Johannes Brahms was a Romantic with a capital R. Born six years after Beethoven’s death, Brahms was so determined to continue the composer’s colossal musical legacy that he labored over his First Symphony (often nicknamed “Beethoven’s Tenth”) for over a decade. He spent nearly as much time laboring over his Piano Concerto no. 1 in D minor, an all-engrossing display of raw passion that explores virtually the entire spectrum of human emotion in less than an hour.
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| 1-Aug-2012 Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall | Symphonic Dances from the Sydney Symphony at the Opera House |
 Last night’s program with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was one of those to really get your teeth into, with substantial, complex works by Brahms and Rachmaninov, and only a short amount of respite provided by Dvořák. This was serious music in the form of the heavyweight Brahms Piano Concerto no. 1, which contains almost too much music to comprehend in one sitting. The Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances too are substantial in their form and structure.Read full review... | |
| 19-May-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | The Hong Kong Philharmonic in works by Britten, Debussy and Brahms |
 DIETER NAGL.jpg) The central character in Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes is a fisherman outcast contending with the wrath of his community. The score for the Four Sea Interludes, extracted from it, weaves often threadbare orchestral parts into a menacing mosaic of moods in the story and conditions which the characters have to battle.Read full review... | |
