| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 15-Mar-2012 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | David Zinman's Beethoven Festival in New York Ends with a Solid Eroica |
 There is, nowadays, no one way to play a Beethoven symphony – if indeed there ever was. Just as we today are exposed to the myriad methods of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Christian Thielemann, Bernard Haitink, and Osmo Vänskä, the supposedly bad old days of the 1950s found space for the very different talents of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Otto Klemperer, Erich Kleiber, and Hermann Scherchen to rub shoulders.Read full review... | |
| 27-Aug-2011 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 57: Perfect Pires, baffling Beethoven |
 Nothing quite made sense in this programme, but the confusion was impressive nonetheless. The opening, the UK première of Anders Hillborg's 'Cold Heat', was a prime example of post-minimalism: an eclectic assortment of styles, juxtaposed with consideration, but without much sense of unity for the work itself. The commission had come from David Zinman for a piece 'with NO slow music whatsoever', and Hillborg complied – on the whole.Read full review... | |
| 18-Mar-2010 Opernhaus | The Tales of Hoffman at Zurich Opera |
 We spent last night in Zurich, where we had the chance to see the Zurich Opernhaus production of Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann. It’s the first time I’ve been to the opera house here and the first time I’ve seen Offenbach on stage, so interesting on both counts.
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