| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 19-Apr-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | Powerful Tippett, Beethoven and Mark Simpson with the BBC SO at the Barbican |
 Elisabeth Blanchett.jpg) On the day after the announcement of the programme for this year’s BBC Proms, the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave us yet another concert worthy of that great festival. Under the experienced baton of Martyn Brabbins they took three centuries of music in their stride and at the end of the concert I was left feeling that musical life in London would be so much less exciting without the BBC.
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| 19-Jan-2013 Severance Hall | Widmann, Bartók and Beethoven with Joshua Bell and The Cleveland Orchestra |
 Severance Hall was packed this weekend for a rare appearance by violinist Joshua Bell with the Cleveland Orchestra and music director Franz Welser-Möst conducting. There should have been no disappointment; the concert was brilliantly executed from beginning to end. This review is based on the performance of Saturday, 19 January.
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| 21-Oct-2012 Laeiszhalle: Großer Saal | Lisa Batiashvili and NDR Sinfonieorchester thrill in Hamburg |
 “Royal Albert Hall / Barbican / Usher Hall (delete as necessary) sold out for Sunday morning concert.” How likely is this headline in response to a normal, mid-season concert in Britain? For Hamburg, it is perfectly normal, and the crowds that thronged the Laeiszhalle, young and old, chic and casual, were not to be disappointed. Now in his second year as Principal Conductor of the NDR Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Hengelbrock led his accomplished musicians in a programme which thrilled and moved their audience in equal measure.Read full review... | |
| 4-Sep-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 71: Mixed doubles from St Louis Symphony |
 On 3 September 1912, in a Proms concert which also featured a comedy overture by Granville Bantock and excerpts from Délibes’ ballet Coppélia, Henry Wood and his Queen’s Hall Orchestra gave the world première of Arnold Schoenberg’s Five Orchestral Pieces, a landmark work in atonal expressionism which drew hisses from the hall audience.Read full review... | |
