| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 17-Apr-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Der Thielemann brings the Staatskapelle Dresden and Brahms to New York |
 “Der Sir”, they used to call him. The death of Sir Colin Davis has been a strikingly international event, and New York has been no exception. Over at Lincoln Center, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic opened their latest subscription run with “Nimrod” from Elgar’s Enigma Variations, a joint tribute to the British conductor and the people of Boston (another of Sir Colin’s haunts).Read full review... | |
| 7-Apr-2013 Semperoper | A feast of Brahms in Dresden with Thielemann and Batiashvili |
 Whatever our relationship with music we often have moments in our lives where the thing we’ve always loved feels like little more than a habit, or worse still a chore. You go to a concert and sit through it, and you know in your head that the orchestra played well and that the soloists were excellent, but your heart remains unmoved. Since the beginning of April I’d been disenchanted by classical music, for reasons I can’t quite articulate, and I needed an experience to blow the cobwebs away.Read full review... | |
| 3-Apr-2013 Colston Hall | Paavo Järvi, Lisa Batiashvili and the Philharmonia Orchestra at Colston Hall |
 What a night. The conductor, Paavo Järvi, made the evening’s performance riveting, with a modest yet heartfelt performance. There were no egos on the stage, just unpretentious and pure classical music. The programme was three works long: two symphonies either side of a violin concerto. All three works were completely separate in quality and style, which allowed the evening to be diverse and exciting. The Philharmonia Orchestra added more instrumentalists to the stage for each piece, so the next work always felt bigger.
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| 22-Oct-2012 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | Brahms, Brahms, and Brahms from Gergiev and the LSO in New York |
 You can’t say Valery Gergiev doesn’t get around. Four concerts in New York over the last week and a half of October, two with the London Symphony Orchestra, one with the World Orchestra for Peace, and another with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra might seem a little like overkill, especially for a conductor as notable for hot and cold performances as for his workload. The LSO, too, have had it difficult for the last few months, with extensive tours through Europe, London concerts with replacement conductors, and now a mini-residency at Lincoln Center.Read full review... | |
