| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 28-Apr-2013 The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall | All the right decisions in the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's Beethoven concert in Toronto |
 Thomas Dausgaard conducts with his body. A shift in his posture, without engaging hands or arms, is enough indication for his Swedish Chamber Orchestra to execute subtly graduated dynamic shifts. And perhaps it was the sensitive acoustics of Koerner Hall, but I don’t recall having heard a finer separation of sonic textures and registers than those Dausgaard elicited from the dialogue of self and soul in Beethoven’s Coriolan overture.Read full review... | |
| 1-Mar-2013 Usher Hall | Slobodeniouk and Bavouzet perform Beethoven with the RSNO |
 There is nothing quite like an all-Beethoven programme for filling a large concert hall. Last night’s offering from the RSNO in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall was ample proof of this, with hardly a spare seat anywhere in the house. Given that the music was already so familiar, is there any other factor that might lend additional appeal?Read full review... | |
| 5-Feb-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | Turnage, Harding and Hardenberger with the London Symphony Orchestra |
 Tuesday evening’s concert was technically the start of a short residency for Mark-Anthony Turnage with the London Symphony Orchestra, but a smouldering performance on the podium from Daniel Harding came close to drawing attention away from the featured composer. A curious mixture of Sibelius, Turnage and Beethoven – a combination of composers repeated in Thursday’s concert – served primarily to demonstrate Harding’s versatility in conducting, as well as the strength of his relationship with the LSO.
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| 31-Jan-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | What a difference a day makes: Barenboim and WEDO continue at Carnegie |
 “Daniel Barenboim can be a frustrating... conductor”, I wrote after the first concert in this series of four, in which he and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra are presenting all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies. As if to prove the point, to follow that stunning concert of First, Eighth and Fifth, these forces delivered a maddeningly inconsistent Fourth and a far loftier but hardly flawless Eroica.Read full review... | |
