| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 28-May-2012 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Cirque Éloize in Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé |
 The concert by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) on Monday concluded its 2011/2012 season, the first in its new home at the Maison Symphonique de Montréal.
Read full review... | |
| 7-May-2012 Concertgebouw: Main Hall | Riccardo Chailly with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Amsterdam |
 Riccardo Chailly was much loved as prinicpal conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, a position he held between 1988 and 2004. And even though tonight he played with his own Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, he received a hero’s welcome at the Concertgebouw. As he entered the stage, there was one of the biggest rounds of applause I’ve ever seen before the concert even started, and this clearly touched the conductor.
Read full review... | |
| 17-Aug-2011 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 44: Many accents of Russia from Salonen |
 Esa-Pekka Salonen is an impressive conductor to watch. His movement is fluid, elegant and simple, yet he achieves a wide range of different gestures: I'm not an orchestral musician but I imagine that it would be very easy to follow his intent. The Philharmonia certainly seem to find it so: in an all-Russian programme of four very different works, they produced orchestral sound that was superb throughout: wonderful string tone, powerhouse brass and percussion, neatly intermingled woodwind.
Read full review... | |
| 15-Aug-2010 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 40: The London Philharmonic Orchestra annihilate the audience by way of Prokofiev |
 Prom number 40 saw a Russian conductor at the helm of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, playing a selection of music from some of the great Russian composers of the last two centuries, all with very distinct styles. Rimsky Korsakov’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Night on a Bare Mountain began the concert and conjured up all the fantastical imagery the name promises. Conductor Vladimir Jurowski initiated a faster tempo than I had heard in the past, giving particular sections a much more aggressive, driving quality.Read full review... | |
