| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 3-Feb-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Embodying Beethoven's Ninth: Barenboim and WEDO conclude at Carnegie |
.jpg) Unity over division, peace over war, a higher cause for humanity: no symphony better expresses the mission of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra than Beethoven’s Ninth, and no orchestra plays this symphony with greater emotional power. With Daniel Barenboim on the rostrum, this symphony’s composed, collective redemption becomes at once entirely natural and entirely miraculous.Read full review... | |
| 16-Nov-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | John Eliot Gardiner's Beethoven 9 still shocks at Carnegie Hall |
 As I walked to this concert by the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and the Monteverdi Choir, I wondered what might have changed in Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Beethoven in the two decades since he first recorded these symphonies. In the early 1990s the period-instrument movement was at its height, and the shock of the new (in the guise of the old) drew dividing lines between those who insisted that Beethoven needed to be played with original instruments at the composer’s set speeds, and those who believed in the importance of tradition.Read full review... | |
| 7-Aug-2012 City Recital Hall Angel Place | Thrilling Beethoven from the ACO and Clare College, Cambridge in Sydney |
.jpg) Any performance of Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 is always eagerly awaited, but this one was especially, featuring the Australian Chamber Orchestra performing on period instruments, directed from the lead violin by their artistic director Richard Tognetti, with one of the best English collegiate choirs, the choir of Clare College, Cambridge.Read full review... | |
| 29-Jul-2012 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Beijing comes to London: Beijing Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall |
.jpg) Mention Beijing in London at the moment and some allusion to opening ceremonies, sports or medals will undoubtedly follow (with an optional grumble about the transport system tagged on the end). But at the Southbank Centre, a mention of Beijing would evoke an entirely more unique response, given the recent visit of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra in partnership with the Centre’s resident London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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