| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 7-Mar-2013 Queen's Hall, Edinburgh | SCO with Matthias Goerne in orchestrated Schubert Lieder |
 Size mattered in this programme, whether in the form of piano originals filled out to orchestral proportions, or Romantic reach reined in by Classical sensibility. The evening’s opening gesture was down to one man, Ian White, whose muted trombone ushered in Webern’s orchestration of the Ricercar from Bach’s 1747 Musical Offering. This zany and delicate treatment says all that can be said about the colour that orchestration can bring to a keyboard original.Read full review... | |
| 11-Feb-2013 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | When Pushkin comes to shove: Kasper Holten's Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House |
 BILL COOPER.jpg) Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is one of the most beautiful scores in the operatic repertoire, and I don’t blame people who come to it looking forward to immersing themselves in the warm bath of the familiar story and music. For many of the audience – and, it has to be said, critics – Kasper Holten’s deconstructed Onegin clearly felt as if nanny had taken teddy away and left a book on German Expressionist cinema in its place.
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| 27-Oct-2012 Severance Hall | Robin Ticciati makes his Cleveland Orchestra debut with Rachmaninov and Sibelius |
 Severance Hall was full on Saturday evening for the Cleveland Orchestra debut of one of the hottest young conductors on the scene today: Robin Ticciati. Not yet 30, Mr Ticciati is conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Music Director-designate at Glyndebourne. The soloist, Macedonian-born pianist Simon Trpčeski, was also making his Severance Hall debut, although he appeared with the orchestra at Blossom Music Center in summer 2009.
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| 31-Aug-2012 Usher Hall | Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Edinburgh play Mahler, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich |
 'First impressions are often the truest', wrote Hazlitt. I was immediately struck by the amount of space on the Usher Hall stage, recently filled by so many large symphony orchestras. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra had plenty of space, a feature which was soon to be borne out in the music.
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