| Date and venue | Title | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Apr-2013 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal in Rossini, Beethoven and Bruckner | Andrew Crust |
 Tonight’s OSM concert began introspectively, deep down in the baritone register of Brian Manker’s cello, accompanied warmly by his section and the contrabasses. Rossini’s overture to William Tell is both immediately recognizable and perilously difficult – virtually every section of the orchestra is highlighted, and quite often pushed to technical extremes.
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| 7-Aug-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 33: MacMillan's new Credo, framed by Wagner and Bruckner | Wilf Jones |
 I would say a little over three quarters of the seats in the Royal Albert Hall were full for Prom 33, featuring Juanjo Mena, the BBC Philharmonic and several northern choirs, and that whilst I’ve seen the arena busier than it was, it was still fairly tightly packed. The haunting opening solo line of Wagner’s prelude to Tristan und Isolde crept into our consciousness out of the silence with its instinctively straight quality and it stayed in that timbre until the cellos’ theme opened up into a warmer vibrato.Read full review... | ||
| 12-Apr-2012 Barbican Centre: Hall | Bruckner 6 and Schumann at the Barbican | David Karlin |
 Tortured souls don't always produce tortured music. Last night's concert at the Barbican, given by the LSO and Daniel Harding, featured two works by Schumann and Bruckner, two composers who had more than their fair share of mental crises and self-doubt. Both, however, produced music of rare beauty.
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