| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 2-May-2013 Sheldonian Theatre | Brian Cox and Oxford May Music present The Planets |
 Oxford May Music has been fusing arts and science for six years now. Thursday’s concert was evidence of this interdisciplinary ethos. Themed around “The Planets”, the evening combined a two-piano version of Gustav Holst’s suite with a talk by physicist Brian Cox. The star of a number of radio and television programmes, Cox’s presence clearly played a major part in filling Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre (with a seating capacity of 900 people).
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| 5-Jan-2013 Leeds Town Hall | The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain are the sun to Holst's Planets |
 Assembling tonight in Leeds Town Hall for a programme of English and American scores by Adams, Britten and Holst, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, directed by John Wilson, presented three fiendishly difficult works. With all three pieces incorporating a variety of prominently nerve-shattering musical agonies, this programme might be the frustration or terror of any professional orchestra.
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| 4-Oct-2012 Colston Hall | Worlds apart: Kirill Karabits conducts Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Bristol |
 Good programming makes for a good concert. Chosen works must fit well together, providing enough musical contrast to keep things interesting, but they must not be so different as to jar listeners with alien soundworlds. All too often, organisers whip up concerts in which any link between pieces are entirely superficial and completely amusical. A perfect example of this was Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s season-opening concert at Bristol’s Colston Hall, conducted by the youthful Kirill Karabits.Read full review... | |
| 27-Sep-2012 Bridgewater Hall | The Hallé and Mark Elder: Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Holst |
 A packed hall, including several primary schools and a handful of mayors, attended for a 20th-century triptych. One suspected that most were there for Holst’s The Planets, but it was the first half’s Stravinsky and Shostakovich which were most revelatory tonight.
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