| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 29-Jan-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Simon Rattle and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment excel in Mozart |
 Fifteen years ago I sat dutifully listening to the excellent Haringey Schools Orchestra nobly attempting to bring off the herculean musical feat of the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony. Many hours of coaching and rehearsal had clearly brought the youngsters to this point. Proud parents and friends fidgeted through the painful 55 minutes, and everyone clapped appreciatively when it ended. It was then that the delightful announcement was made that local boy Sir Simon Rattle had agreed to conduct Gershwin’s Strike Up the Band overture to round off the concert.Read full review... | |
| 10-Aug-2012 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | Death and life: Lutosławski, Bartók, and Mozart at the Mostly Mozart Festival |
 New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival continued Friday evening with three works, all marvelous and presented in reverse-chronological order. After Witold Lutosławski’s Muzyka żałobna, the orchestra and conductor Louis Langrée were joined by French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet for Bartók’s Piano Concerto no. 3, and the concert concluded with Mozart’s Symphony no. 39 in E flat major.
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| 2-Jun-2012 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | Regality and Grace: Mozart's Final Symphonies with the Violons du Roy |
 The Violons du Roy along with conductor Bernard Labadie offered a concert of Mozart’s last three symphonies tonight in the Maison Symphonique de Montréal. An apt program, these three symphonies were written by Mozart in rapid succession in the summer of 1788. Mozart’s fabled swiftness as a composer, and the relative ease with which he wrote, did not lead to mediocrity in any of his works. This genius could scribble music onto soiled tavern napkins or on reams of pages strewn about his billiard table, and the product was nearly always sublime.Read full review... | |
| 28-Mar-2012 Die Residenz: Herkulessaal | The Münchener Symphoniker play Mozart and Bruckner |
 Münchener Symphoniker is one of four professional symphony orchestras based in Munich, and although perhaps less well known than the Philharmoniker or the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, they are able to hold their own amidst the stiff competition. Tonight they performed a varied programme of Mozart and Bruckner under the baton of their principal conductor Georg Schmöhe, and they met the demands of contrasting music, giving an enjoyable and stylish interpretation of both works.
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