| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 13-Nov-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Beethoven, Pintscher and Scriabin from Welser-Möst and the Clevelanders at Carnegie Hall |
 Franz Welser-Möst’s programme was rather eclectic for this Carnegie Hall visit from the Cleveland Orchestra. Matthias Pintscher’s static, ethereal new work, Chute d’Étoiles (“Falling Stars”), found itself sandwiched between two of Beethoven’s busiest works, the Fourth Symphony and the Grosse Fuge, both of which are in the key of B flat major. Scriabin’s heady Le poème de l’extase then played coda to an already long concert. Trying to work out the connection between the four? So am I.
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| 30-Nov-2011 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Bruckner's First crowns a musical collage from Jurowski and the LPO |
 All three works in this programme were written by composers in mid-life - late 30s, early 40s - and all worked within the Austro-German tradition, but one would be surprised to find they had much else in common. The performances this evening did, however, manage to forge an unexpected congruence between them.
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