| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 7-Dec-2012 Elgar Concert Hall | A moving vision of the end of time with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group |
 The works featured in this concert, composed in 1912 and 1941, might be considered rather old fare for Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, but they remain as startlingly original today as they must have seemed back then. It was a pleasure to hear them in the brand new Elgar Concert Hall at the University of Birmingham in all its shiny, wooden splendour.
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| 25-Nov-2012 Wellington Town Hall: Ilott Theatre | A marvellous and disturbing Pierrot Lunaire from Stroma New Music Ensemble |
 The year 2012 marks the 100th birthday of Arnold Schoenberg’s seminal Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds “Pierrot lunaire”, more commonly known as Pierrot lunaire. To celebrate this, Stroma New Music Ensemble engaged one of New Zealand’s foremost young singers for Pierrot, and prefaced it with two works by Schoenberg’s pupils.Read full review... | |
| 27-Aug-2012 Cadogan Hall | Proms Chamber Music 7: The Nash Ensemble illustrate the musical contrasts of the 20th century |
 The seventh of the chamber music Proms this year brought together two of the greatest composers of the early 20th century. Though Debussy was twelve years Schoenberg’s senior, of the two works performed it is Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire which was written first, in 1912, with Debussy’s Sonata for flute, viola and harp following three years later in 1915.Read full review... | |
| 7-May-2012 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | The Evolution of Musical Melodrama with Nagano and the Bavarian State Opera Soloists |
 Kent Nagano has a long history of inventive programming, particularly in the chamber music repertoire. His first real break came in 1982 when he was personally chosen by Frank Zappa to record some of his orchestral music with the London Symphony. In 2008 he collaborated with Zebedee Nungak, an Inuit writer, taking a translated version of Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat on tour in Nunavik, the Inuit homeland in Quebec.Read full review... | |
