| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 7-May-2013 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | Itzhak Perlman plays Beethoven, Franck and Tartini in Montréal |
 Itzhak Perlman is certainly one of the most venerated recitalists alive today. Already at age thirteen he was making himself known to a wide American audience on the Ed Sullivan Show, and has since graced the stages of all the world’s greatest concert halls. He’s no stranger to Montréal, either. The violinist joked as he read a list of encores: “This is a computerized list of everything I’ve played in Montréal since 1912. In case you were here in 1912, I don’t want you to hear the same piece twice.”
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| 7-Apr-2013 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Verbrugghen Hall | Inspirational performances of Mendelssohn, Dohnányi and Franck at the Musica Viva Festival |
 At one point in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, the narrator is listening to a sonata for piano and violin by the fictional Vinteuil, when “at a certain moment, without being able to distinguish any clear outline, or to give a name to what was pleasing him, suddenly enraptured, he tried to grasp the phrase or harmony – he did not know which – that had just been played and that had opened and expanded his soul”. Some suspect that the author might have had Franck’s Sonata for violin and piano in mind.Read full review... | |
| 14-Nov-2011 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Joshua Bell and Sam Haywood: Carnegie Hall at its best |
 The moment the first chord rang out in the Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall Monday night, the audience caught their breath. Opening with Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Sonata in F Major, violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Sam Haywood set the tone for the rest of the evening.
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