| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 1-Nov-2012 Oslo Concert Hall (Konserthus) | Rachmaninov and Nielsen with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra |
 Thursday’s concert with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra started not with music, but with an award ceremony. It was the Norwegian Sibelius Society that gave away its annual award for the strengthening of cultural ties between Norway and Finland. Present were the Sibelius Society’s chair Stephan Barratt-Due, Finland’s ambassador to Norway Maimo Henriksson, and the recipient of the award, Sinikka Langeland. After she received the award, she sang a traditional Forest Finnish song, accompanying herself on the kantele, a traditional Finnish instrument.Read full review... | |
| 7-Oct-2012 Usher Hall | St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra play Rachmaninov and Shostakovich in Edinburgh |
 A neighbour at a recent visiting orchestra’s Edinburgh Festival concert asked me what I thought of the atonal frenzy in the pre-performance free-for-all; warm-up scales mingled with sneak peeks at tricky passages. My response was that a school orchestra would not be allowed to do this. Contrastingly, the vista before this St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra’s Usher Hall concert consisted of an unpeopled stage. The orchestra filed on in a matter of seconds. Coupled with white tie and tails appearance, this may have struck some as overly formal.Read full review... | |
| 29-Sep-2012 Meyerson Symphony Center | Russian Romantics: Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky in Dallas |
 Kacper Pempel.jpg) The Dallas Symphony Orchestra have had a couple of high-profile guest performers in town for their most recent series of concerts. They presented works by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky, a piano concerto and a symphony respectively, in a program that, although disastrously designed, was redeemed by some stellar playing.
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| 6-Sep-2012 Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma: Sala Santa Cecilia | Daniil Trifonov plays Rachmaninov in Rome |
photoTBA.jpg) Thursday evening at Renzo Piano’s modern Sala Santa Cecilia in Rome, a program given of Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov’s music was marked by grace, musical distinction, and infectious excitement. The excitement was brought by the pianism of the young Daniil Trifonov, who astounded with profound and agreeable musicality in the Piano Concerto no. 3 in D minor. Led by Andrea Battistoni and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the audience was treated to the fine musical collaboration of two flourishing young artists.
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