| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 16-Nov-2012 Usher Hall | RSNO Naked Classics: Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique |
 The RSNO’s Naked Classics series continues to draw sizeable crowds, and it’s not difficult to see why. A single work is dissected and then, after the interval, performed. Admirably, even the analytical first half opens with music; a passage from the piece at hand is played before the presenter takes the stage.
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| 11-Oct-2012 Stavanger Concert Hall | Opening night at Stavanger's new Concert Hall |
 While several of the world’s orchestras are struggling to pay their players, never mind expand, Stavanger has just built a new £100 million concert hall, its interior a triumph of acoustic engineering and its public side with airy atriums and bars looking across attractive bays. This celebratory concert to mark the Konserthus’ opening was heavily packed and warmly received.
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| 27-Sep-2012 Severance Hall | Strauss' Oboe Concerto shines in Cleveland Orchestra’s concert |
 (1).jpg) Although Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique was the headline work for the September 27th Cleveland Orchestra concert at Severance Hall, the big news was principal oboist Frank Rosenwein’s personal triumph as soloist in Richard Strauss’ 1946 Oboe Concerto, with music director Franz Welser-Möst conducting.
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| 29-May-2012 Colston Hall | More Please: Ashkenazy, Tsujii and Philharmonia Orchestra in Bristol |
 On a stiflingly hot evening, a packed Colston Hall was met with an energetic conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy, springing to the middle of the stage. Before the audience hushed, Berlioz’s Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict swirled around the room. Light-hearted, breezy and full of optimism, it made a great opening piece to the night’s programme. Béatrice et Bénédict, an ‘opera-comique’, was Berlioz’s last opera, inspired by Shakespeare’s play Much Ado about Nothing.
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