| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 8-May-2013 BBC Hoddinott Hall | Britten and Poulenc with Adrian Partington and the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales |
.jpg) On Wednesday evening the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, conducted by Adrian Partington, presented a programme of choral music by the two musical friends Poulenc and Britten. Interestingly, most of the works also originated from a narrow three-year period in the late 1930s (Poulenc was, at this stage, in his late 30s, Britten in his mid 20s), making the juxtaposition of the composers’ works all the more pertinent.
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| 10-Feb-2013 Southbank Centre: Queen Elizabeth Hall | Stravinsky's Renard at The Rest is Noise with Barbara Hannigan and the London Sinfonietta |
 Venturing into the Paris of the 1910s and 1920s, the Southbank Centre’s The Rest is Noise festival continues its journey through a brambly thicket of 20th-century music. Sunday’s programme focused on the output of Igor Stravinsky, the Russian composer who famously engendered riotous uproar at the Paris Opera House in 1913 with his savage ballet Le sacre du printemps. Yet 100 years after this momentous event, Stravinsky’s music still holds surprises in store for us.Read full review... | |
| 13-Dec-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | The American Symphony Orchestra elates and effervesces with Cage festivities at Carnegie Hall |
 On Thursday evening, the American Symphony Orchestra bid an effervescent farewell to 2012 and thereby rounded out a year-long celebration of the centenary of John Cage’s birth.Read full review... | |
| 26-Oct-2012 Holywell Music Room | French song from Alice Coote and Julius Drake at the Oxford Lieder Festival |
 Drawing names such as Sarah Connolly and Dame Felicity Lott to the dreaming spires, the Oxford Lieder Festival has defined itself as a leading musical exponent on an international level. It was fitting, then, that Alice Coote and Julius Drake should open the final weekend of the eleventh festival. Ranging from the romanticism of Berlioz to Poulenc’s sardonic humour, the recital encompassed an eclectic mix of French repertoire from the late 19th century into the early 20th. I was interested to see what Coote and Drake would bring to the programme.
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