| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 27-Mar-2013 City Hall Concert Hall | The Hong Kong Sinfonietta in Mozart and Beethoven evergreens |
 Over the years, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta has made laudable efforts in bringing classical music to the masses and recruiting new audiences. Of necessity, it sticks to a well-trodden repertoire of evergreens which challenges musicians to bring a fresh perspective.
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| 30-Jan-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | WEDO and Barenboim start a Beethoven cycle at Carnegie |
 Daniel Barenboim can be a frustrating – and frustrated – conductor. When his grand plans don’t quite come off, he can become irritable, his gestures more didactic and his brow ever more distractedly mopped. Not so in this concert, however. By the closing cadences of Beethoven's Fifth he was singing along, preempting the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra’s deliciously delayed and eternally held final chord with an explosive “Baaah!” from the podium.
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| 24-Jan-2013 Walt Disney Concert Hall | LA Phil and Morlot offer mixed bag of Dutilleux, Mozart, and Beethoven |
 A tense, Holocaust-inspired orchestral work by Henri Dutilleux followed by one of Mozart’s most chipper piano concertos on one half; a second half consisting of only the Beethoven Symphony no. 5. That's a strange enough combination on paper – and hearing it actually realized is stranger still. You have to wonder what they were thinking. And by “they” I mean whoever devised the oddball program that guest conductor Ludovic Morlot conducted last night with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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| 9-Jan-2013 Birmingham Symphony Hall | CBSO and Andris Nelsons: Beethoven 4 and 5 |
 Andris Nelsons passed the halfway stage of his Birmingham Beethoven cycle with brilliantly muscular accounts of the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies and a glossy performance of the concert aria Ah! Perfido.
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