| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 6-Apr-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Elina Garanča's NYC recital debut is calm, cool and collected |
 Elina Garanča can always be counted on for a coolly polished performance. Her silvery mezzo is beautiful, even throughout her range, and impeccably on pitch. She is musically tasteful, and her sound has grown in recent years. But something often seems to be missing. While she’s too accomplished to call bland, her performances rarely show evidence of a beating heart. On Saturday night, her Carnegie Hall recital debut kept in character, showing an excellent singer rather than an effective communicator.
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| 24-Jan-2013 Southbank Centre: Queen Elizabeth Hall | Voicing early modernism: The Rest is Noise with Barbara Hannigan |
 Billed as “The soundtrack of the 20th century”, The Rest is Noise season of 2013 has now commenced at the Southbank Centre. Concert programmes scheduled throughout January have focused on the Second Viennese School and its infamous break with western tonality. However, for those bewitched by the descent of music history into an atonal abyss, Thursday’s concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall offered a refreshing take on the narrative we are apparently so well acquainted with.Read full review... | |
| 6-Nov-2012 Konzerthaus: Rolf Böhme Saal | A thrilling ride in Freiburg with the SWR Sinfonieorchester, Tilling and Roth |
23.jpg) Can two composers have so much, yet so little in common? Or be such accommodating, yet such uncomfortable bedfellows? The SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg with their principal conductor François-Xavier Roth addressed these questions in exhilarating style, in a “turn-of-the-century time capsule” which thrilled and enchanted upon its opening.
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