| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 7-Feb-2013 Howard Assembly Room | Delius, Britten and Elgar from Tasmin Little and Martin Roscoe |
 Delius is a composer who is often misunderstood, the English pastoralism of works like On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring hardly representative of either his cosmopolitan life or the breadth of his output. Tasmin Little has long been one of the composer’s most passionate advocates, and opened this recital with her regular duo partner Martin Roscoe with the earliest of Delius’ four violin sonatas.Read full review... | |
| 27-Oct-2012 Bridgewater Hall | BBC Philharmonic with Martin Roscoe and John Storgårds in Sibelius, Beethoven and Nielsen |
 Since the end of September, the Manchester concert scene has been in full swing; performances from the city’s native and visiting ensembles (orchestral and chamber) are all speeding towards a diverse and exciting season of familiar and forgotten works in chamber recitals, orchestral concerts and opera. One especially well-represented composer this season is Finland’s Jean Sibelius. Born in Hämeenlinna in 1865, Sibelius is responsible for seven extraordinary symphonies, a host of tone poems and many songs, as well as incidental music, choral works and chamber music.Read full review... | |
| 16-Mar-2012 Bridgewater Hall | BBC Philharmonic: Sibelius and Beethoven |
 Manchester audiences are lucky; every year the Bridgewater Hall presents a staggering array of music that could rival any concert hall between Earth and Pluto. Within the last seven days we have been fortunate enough to hear music from the baroque to the twentieth century, including a semi-staged version of Henry Purcell’s semi-opera King Arthur with the New London Consort and Philip Pickett, followed by the Hallé with Sir Mark Elder performing astonishing renditions of Holst’s Hymn of Jesus and Elgar’s Second Symphony, and the week was capped off on Friday night by the BBC Philharmonic and their concert of Sibelius and Beethoven.Read full review... | |
| 1-Dec-2010 Cadogan Hall | A concert with a cause |
| A show of “all our favourite people”. Violinist Matthew Trusler's description of the charity concert organised by himself and his wife Maya Koch refers to his and Koch’s favourite people; however he could very well have meant his audience’s or even the concert-going public. The couple have some very well-known friends indeed: the evident warmth between them created the intimate, spontaneous atmosphere of a private drawing-room where world-class musicians happened to be making music together.
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