| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 17-May-2013 Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall | Tchaikovsky, Strauss and Walton: Ashkenazy's favourites with Sydney Symphony |
 A concert entitled “Askenazy’s Favourites” is always going to be intriguing, but perhaps more intriguing are his choices. If asked to pick what symphony Ashkenazy would choose to go in this concert, I would have thought that most people would have chosen a large-scale Romantic symphony, maybe Brahms, Rachmaninov or Mahler. How many people would have thought that Ashkenazy would have chosen Walton’s First Symphony?Read full review... | |
| 10-May-2013 Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall | Expertly crafted Beethoven by Ashkenzy and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra |
 There are only a handful of composers whose music can provide enough variety to last a whole program. Beethoven is one of those composers. Not only that, but even today, some 200 years after his lifetime, his music continues to inspire, delight and challenge modern audiences. That is part of Beethoven’s enduring genius and legacy.
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| 21-Mar-2013 Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall | A stunning experience with Sydney Symphony in Carmina Burana |
 One of the pleasures of attending live concerts is discovering sounds that recordings often mask or fail to highlight. Occasionally, the sheer enormity of the experience can be so stunning that I reel from it for days. The “2013 Season Special Event” of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra on Thursday was one of those occasions. The main attraction of the evening was Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, but to whet our appetite guest conductor Long Yu led the orchestra in Enchantements oubliés by contemporary Chinese composer Chen Qigang.
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| 15-Mar-2013 Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall | Fate and festivals with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra |
 Fate and Festivals was the rather bold title given to the latest Sydney Symphony Orchestra concert at Sydney Opera House in an evening which provided a great showcase for the full orchestra, demonstrating their great virtuosity, versatility and sensitivity as an ensemble. With such a demanding program, it must have been somewhat daunting for the guest conductor, Canadian-born Charles Olivieri-Munroe. However, he conducted with flair, clearly wanting to impress on his Australian debut.Read full review... | |
