| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 24-Sep-2012 Lincoln Center: Alice Tully Hall | A mighty wind: Opening night at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center |
 With so much of the chamber repertoire focused on strings and piano, it was a refreshing choice by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to open their season with some of the great works for winds. Many of the wind and brass performers on the program spend most of their professional lives as orchestral and solo musicians, and clearly relish the chance to make music with their colleagues without following the conductor’s baton. The unique collegiality of music on the small stage has a pull on some of the country’s best musicians.
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| 15-Jun-2012 St Martin-in-the-Fields | Canticum and Southbank Sinfonia light up St Martin-in-the-Fields |
.jpg) The two masses in this intriguing and very enjoyable programme made a thought-provoking contrast. Stravinsky was anxious that his mass be cold – indeed, as the bass singer Simon Scott Plummer’s useful programme notes told us, he wanted the music ‘very cold, absolutely cold, that will appeal directly to the spirit.’ Bruckner’s E minor mass was composed originally for outdoor performance, but that’s the only source of any coldness that might attach to his work, full as it is of heated expressive gestures that might also ‘appeal directly to the spirit’.Read full review... | |
| 21-Apr-2011 Anvil, Basingstoke | “Yet another hard nut ... ” |
 “My Sixth seems to be yet another hard nut, one that our critics' feeble little teeth cannot crack”. It will “propound riddles the solution of which may be attempted only by a generation which has absorbed and truly digested my first five symphonies.”. So wrote Mahler in letters to the Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg and the Austrian writer and musicologist Richard Specht respectively. Critics and musicologists have since struggled to crack the nut, with many questions ranging from the meaning of this complex work to the order of the four movements.Read full review... | |
