| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 16-May-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | European première of Shostakovich's Orango at The Rest is Noise |
 Among the brilliant programming of The Rest is Noise festival in London, there was one concert this year that stood above all the others for me: the European première of Shostakovich’s opera prologue Orango. First discovered in an archive in 2004 by scholar Olga Digonskaya, Orango was never finished by Shostakovich, and indeed only a piano score remained.Read full review... | |
| 21-Mar-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | A chest of treasures: The Philharmonia's Lutosławski celebrations in London conclude |
 In An Attitude to French Culture the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski remarked “I am aware that of the two traditions that initiated 20th-century music, that is, Schoenberg and Debussy, it is the latter that I feel prevails in my own compositional work”. The Lutosławski centenary concert series at the Southbank Centre sought to trace this lineage by programming Lutosławski’s music alongside works by Claude Debussy, Albert Roussel and Maurice Ravel. Last night an invigorating programme saw this series come to a thrilling close with the Symphony no.Read full review... | |
| 7-Mar-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Woven Words continues: The Philharmonia and Truls Mørk play Lutosławski's Cello Concerto |
 Continuing Woven Words, the Lutosławski festival, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen presented us with another evening of impressive music and impressive programming. Like featuring Ravael’s Daphnis et Chloé in the Lutosławski concert on 30 January, opening this evening with Debussy’s La mer proved an excellent decision.
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| 28-Feb-2013 Chicago Symphony Center | Yo-Yo Ma and Esa-Pekka Salonen bring Lutosławski to the CSO |
 This past Thursday and Friday, Yo-Yo Ma (the CSO’s Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant), Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra tackled the immensely challenging Lutosławski Cello Concerto. New music geeks hardly need be informed of what a rare opportunity it is to hear a musician of Mr Ma’s caliber in the performance of a difficult modernist work, and the hope I held out for the show was amply ratified.Read full review... | |
