| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 20-Mar-2013 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | Nagano conducts Beethoven and Berg at the Maison Symhonique |
 If you like your Beethoven clean, precise and streamlined, you should go hear Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra perform the First and Seventh Symphonies, along with the Berg Violin Concerto and Beethoven’s Wellington’s Victory at the Maison Symphonique. If, however, you prefer your Beethoven heavy with the weight of history, laden with the difficulty of being human, you may as well stay home with your old Furtwängler LPs, because you won’t hear that Beethoven with Nagano at the podium.
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| 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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| 25-Nov-2012 Barbican Centre: Hall | LSO with Semyon Bychkov and Leonidas Kavakos play Berg and Mahler |
 Last season Semyon Bychkov conducted the LSO in an “outstanding” performance of Mahler’s Third Symphony. This year he returned to conduct the First, the “Titan”, achieving similar success in a magnificent performance which radiated youthful zeal.
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| 27-Aug-2012 Concertgebouw: Main Hall | Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester at Robeco Zomerconcerten |
 The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester are known as one of the best youth orchestras in the world, if not the best. As such, they do not shy away from the more difficult repertoire and tonight’s performance of Berg’s Violin Concerto and Mahler’s Symphony no. 7 reaffirmed their reputation. While not faultless, the orchestra was energetic and exceptionally skilled throughout – making a lasting impression.
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