| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 2-Jun-2012 City Hall Concert Hall | Hong Kong Sinfonietta measures up to world standards in Mozart and Brahms |
 “Music from three centuries comes together in tonight’s concert,” declare the programme notes to the Hong Kong Sinfonietta performance at the Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall. Indeed it surveyed the best and most famous in the classical canon. What caught my attention, however, was the opening work: Frates by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Many versions of the work exist – for violin and piano; 12 solo cellos; string quartet; and string orchestra and percussion, the one dating to 1984 featured last night.
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| 9-May-2012 Konzerthaus: Großer Saal | Eliahu Inbal rescues Wiener Symphoniker's Mozart and Bruckner |
 The Wiener Symphoniker has suffered recently from more late conductor cancellations than most orchestras, and things reached a peak last season when their chief conductor Fabio Luisi pulled out of a string of engagements in order to substitute for James Levine at the Met.Read full review... | |
| 20-Oct-2011 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | A Youthful Season Opener for Nézet-Séguin and L'Orchestre Metropolitain |
| Montreal loves Yannick. Many in tonight’s audience were on their feet the moment he walked into the concert hall. Last year L’Orchestre Metropolitain released their season booklet in which half of the pages were filled with the same image of the maestro, each one elaborately ornamented with neo-Baroque complexity. His image is printed on each ticket, and a handwritten message is scrawled on the envelope: “Pour l’amour de la musique.” Needless to say, the Montreal native enjoys the lofty status of hometown hero. Read full review... | |
| 14-Oct-2011 Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall | New Horizons with the Sydney Symphony |
| Some musicians have criticised Mozart’s music for being facile, almost too perfect, some even claiming that it lacks emotional depth. However it is difficult to accept this when listening to Mozart performed by pianist Stephen Hough. It is music which sparkles and glistens much like the water in the harbour surrounding Sydney Opera House, or that is usually the case. As if responding to Mozart’s critics, the weather in Sydney was uncharacteristically damp and dreary – maybe total perfection is a bad thing and not possible.
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