| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 21-Apr-2013 Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR): Henri le Boeuf Concert Hall | Brussels does Vienna: The National Orchestra of Belgium take on Mozart and the mighty Bruckner 4 |
 Brussels’ Palais des Beaux-Arts occupies the site where once stood the Pensionnat Héger, the school where Charlotte and Emily Brontë lived during their sojourn in the Belgian capital – an appropriate setting, as it is not difficult to imagine Bruckner’s mighty Fourth Symphony underscoring one of the sisters’ Gothic tales of unrequited love.Read full review... | |
| 26-Mar-2013 Birmingham Symphony Hall | An exuberant Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in Birmingham with Andsnes and Blomstedt |
 Herbert Blomstedt brought the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester to Birmingham for the ninth of their eleven-concert, two-week Easter tour. Their magisterial account of Bruckner’s Romantic Symphony, and a fine performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto by Leif Ove Andsnes, earned them a vociferous reception. A detour to Birmingham between Interlaken and Aix-en-Provence may not seem entirely logical, but the orchestra, made up of European conservatoire students aged 18–26, very visibly enjoyed themselves.Read full review... | |
| 3-Mar-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Berg and Bruckner from the Vienna Philharmonic on tour in New York |
.jpg) Franz Welser-Möst misses few opportunities to declare his affinity with Anton Bruckner. The conductor, after all, is from Linz in Upper Austria, and Bruckner was born twelve decades earlier in a village just outside the same town. From London to Vienna, Welser-Möst has believed it necessary consciously to advocate for Bruckner’s music. He has even gone as far as dubbing him the “grandfather of minimalism”, to explain pairing his symphonies with the works of John Adams in a recent Cleveland Orchestra residency at Carnegie Hall.
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| 24-Feb-2013 Birmingham Conservatoire, Adrian Boult Hall | Birmingham Philharmonic and Byron Parish's Bruch and Bruckner marathon |
 The citizens of Birmingham were queueing up at the door when I arrived in good time for this concert, and the hall was nearly full when the concert began. All seats were unreserved and at the same price wherever you sat – an arrangement that has always appealed to me. Certainly it discriminates against those who can’t get there early, but at least it doesn’t discriminate against those who may be devoted music-lovers but not wealthy enough to afford what would have been a top-price seat in the centre stalls.
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