| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 8-Dec-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | Jaap van Zweden shows his mettle: Mendelssohn and Elgar with the Hong Kong Philharmonic |
 Although Mendelssohn and Elgar lived in different eras and composed in very different styles, a common thread runs through their works featured in Hong Kong Philharmonic’s performance on Saturday – all of them draw their inspiration from the British Isles.
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| 21-Jun-2012 Konzerthaus: Mozart Saal | Transcendental Song: Mark Padmore and Christianne Stotijn at Vienna's Konzerthaus |
 Dichterliebe is a Lieder programme staple but performances of Schumann’s anti-song cycle, the Op. 39 Liederkreis, are much harder to come by. The latter work fascinates me more, with its themes, in the twelve Eichendorff poems carefully selected by Schumann, of broken, alienated subjects longing for that from which they are cut off, namely love, nature, and some guarantee of existential wellbeing.Read full review... | |
| 6-Apr-2012 Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ: Main Hall | Amsterdam Sinfonietta: Debussy, Mussorgsky, Weinberg and Shostakovich |
.jpg) Amsterdam Sinfonietta offered a program with three Russians and a French composer, and, perhaps more interestingly, featured three works orchestrated by other composers. This offered interesting insight into how different orchestrations can be, some staying close to the original work and sound of the composer, and some adding new dimensions that may not have met the approval of its original composer, but are still worth listening to.
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| 1-Apr-2012 Barbican Centre: Hall | An Outstanding Mahler Third from Bychkov and the LSO |
 When Mahler wrote his Third Symphony, you couldn’t accuse him of lack of ambition. As well as making his usual demands for vast orchestral forces, Mahler intended to encapsulate the whole of creation within a single musical work. The result is a six-movement work that is gigantic in scale, especially the first movement, which takes over 40 minutes on its own.
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