| Date and venue | Title | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2013 Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall | Tchaikovsky, Strauss and Walton: Ashkenazy's favourites with Sydney Symphony | Oliver Brett |
 A concert entitled “Askenazy’s Favourites” is always going to be intriguing, but perhaps more intriguing are his choices. If asked to pick what symphony Ashkenazy would choose to go in this concert, I would have thought that most people would have chosen a large-scale Romantic symphony, maybe Brahms, Rachmaninov or Mahler. How many people would have thought that Ashkenazy would have chosen Walton’s First Symphony?Read full review... | ||
| 27-Sep-2012 Severance Hall | Strauss' Oboe Concerto shines in Cleveland Orchestra’s concert | Timothy Robson |
 (1).jpg) Although Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique was the headline work for the September 27th Cleveland Orchestra concert at Severance Hall, the big news was principal oboist Frank Rosenwein’s personal triumph as soloist in Richard Strauss’ 1946 Oboe Concerto, with music director Franz Welser-Möst conducting.
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| 10-Jun-2012 Sage: Hall One | End of term exuberance from Northern Sinfonia | Jane Shuttleworth |
 There was an atmosphere of end-of-term exuberance at the Sage Gateshead this evening, as Northern Sinfonia brought their 2011/12 season to a close with a programme conducted by Principal Conductor Mario Venzago that cleverly mixed nostalgia and excitement. This was the first time I had seen Northern Sinfonia with Venzago: his big gestures brought out a new emotional depth from the orchestra that I hadn’t heard before.
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