| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 21-Feb-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | The Philharmonia celebrate music: Shostakovich's Fifteenth Symphony |
 Britten’s Death in Venice suite, arranged by Steuart Bedford, is a continuous piece of music taken from the opera. As such, it is an extremely scenic work and even though it has its moments, I could not help but long for the actual opera rather than these excerpts (thankfully it will be performed by ENO later this year). The suite starts off rather calmly, but soon we found out that the stars of the piece were the percussion instruments.Read full review... | |
| 18-Oct-2011 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | Juxtaposition: An Intriguing Program by Nagano, Kremer and the OSM |
 Maestro Kent Nagano’s opening words to the audience outlined the plan of the program eloquently. The concert was to be an investigation of form and structure, as elucidated musically by the surprising juxtaposition of Boulez’s monstrous orchestration and Perotin’s plainchant. The Boulez, according to the maestro, is a ‘kaleidoscope of structural evolutions,’ each small piano piece developing expansively into larger and more complex movements. Similarly, the melodic material of the Perotin chant is expanded structurally from one basic unit or idea.Read full review... | |
