| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 5-Oct-2012 Holywell Music Room | Dark fantasies at the Oxford Chamber Music Festival |
 An introductory reading by local writer Philip Pullman was an appropriate introduction to the “Dusk to Dawn” concert, one of the last in this year’s Oxford Chamber Music Festival (themed “Fairytales and Fantasy”). The collision of a light-hearted surface with darker undertones was not just in Pullman’s retelling of the Grimm stories, but pervaded Artistic Director Priya Mitchell’s programming. An eclectic combination ranging from Beethoven to Tabakova, the evening featured a cluster of talented performers from across Europe.Read full review... | |
| 16-May-2012 Wigmore Hall | Janine Jansen and Friends Play Schoenberg and Schubert at Wigmore Hall |
 It's not always that Schoenberg is out-weirded in a concert programme. More often, his is the eyebrow-raiser, the tougher music on display, which takes more effort to enjoy. But it's a sure sign of progress that a work like the string sextet Verlkärte Nacht (1899), whose première was apparently cancelled because of an overly dissonant inverted ninth chord, can sit so securely in a concert programme today. And actually, it was made to seem positively tame last night, placed next to Schubert's perpetually perplexing String Quintet (1828).
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| 2-Mar-2012 National Concert Hall | Strauss and Mozart in the National Concert Hall, Dublin |
 Friday night’s performance by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra was not just in the National Concert Hall: it was also recorded live for RTÉ Lyric FM. Despite the additional pressure of a national audience, the orchestra performed to their much-acclaimed high standard.Read full review... | |
