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| 22-May-2013 Roy Thomson Hall | Brahms and Lieberson comfort with Peter Oundjian and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Stanley Fefferman |
 “Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted”, says the scripture, and it was so last night as Peter Oundjian conducted the mournful music of Brahms and Lieberson. Wave after wave of the rich textures of grieving arose and subsided in song, leaving in their wake the energy of reconciliation.
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| 17-May-2013 National Concert Hall | An all-German Romantic programme at Dublin's NCH | Andrew Larkin |
 Though the visitation of the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra happened just over a week ago, we have a more permanent influence from that part of the world in the person of Alan Buribayev, the Principal Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, who hails from Kazakhstan. He was joined for tonight’s performance by the young Milanese violinist, Edoardo Zosi who is something of a rising star.Read full review... | ||
| 12-May-2013 St George's Bristol | Five for the price of four: Lawrence Power joins the Takács Quartet for Brahms at St George's Bristol | David Fay |
 Johannes Brahms and his music have a reputation for being somewhat meaty, and so an English Sunday afternoon seems an appropriate time to hear two of his chamber works side by side. Served up by the Takács Quartet joined by violist Lawrence Power, this concert provided the St George’s Bristol audience with plenty to get their teeth into; Sunday roasts were not the only things being digested, as these world-renowned players performed Brahms’ two String Quintets, Opp. 88 and 111.
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| 4-May-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | "I'm in love with Vienna": Renée Fleming and friends at Carnegie Hall | David Allen, unpredictableinevitability.com |
 For the last concert of her Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall, Renée Fleming assembled one of the least coherent concept programmes imaginable. Billed as “Vienna: Window to Modernity”, it was never clear what was specifically Viennese about the music on show, nor what was particularly modern, nor what windows had to do with anything. If this was about the fin de siècle and the turbulent culture that accompanied the collapse of the Austrian empire, then historians are going to have to redefine what a siècle might be, let alone a fin.Read full review... | ||
| 2-May-2013 İş Sanat | A family affair: Mischa, Lily and Sascha Maisky mesmerize Istanbul | Alain Matalon |
 Mischa Maisky, the de-facto romantic cellist, gave the Istanbul audience a triple treat of passionate cello playing in Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Bruch, but surprisingly enough he was in most uninhibited during the Haydn concerto.
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| 2-May-2013 College of St Hild and St Bede Chapel | Haydn, Brahms and Janáček: a string quartet taster menu in Durham | Jane Shuttleworth |
_Benjamin Ealovega.jpg) Durham University’s concert series Musicon has been moving around different venues in the city over the last few years, and this year has been putting on concerts in the College chapel of St Hild and St Bede. The traditional sideways-facing rows of seats are sometimes a bit awkward for concerts, but the Allegri Quartet used the layout to their advantage, and positioned themselves in a circle right in the middle of the chapel, in the heart of the audience.Read full review... | ||
| 26-Apr-2013 Birmingham Symphony Hall | The Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer make a legendary pairing in Birmingham | Peter Marks |
 The Budapest Festival Orchestra are a relatively well-kept secret, although goodness knows why. Perhaps it is something to do with their young age (formed in 1983) or their somewhat utilitarian name. They were ranked number nine in a rather arbitrary Gramophone magazine survey of the best orchestras in the world, but on the evidence of this concert I would have had no quibbles if they had been placed in the top three.
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| 24-Apr-2013 Bridgewater Hall | Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer play Beethoven and Brahms in Manchester | Rohan Shotton |
 Iván Fischer conducted the Budapest Festival Orchestra in impassioned performances of Dohnányi, Beethoven and Brahms to an appreciative, if criminally small, audience in Manchester.
More than any other Music Director one could think of, Fischer has a large claim to the BFO being his orchestra. Since founding the orchestra in 1983, he has been its only chief and has guided it to wide acclaim. Many would question the value of orchestra league tables, but it must say something that such a youthful enterprise made its way to ninth in the world in one such table a couple of years ago.
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| 18-Apr-2013 AT&T Performing Arts Center: Hamon Hall | New and old: Orli Shaham plays Bolcom, Brahms, and Mussorgsky | Evan Mitchell |
 Christian Steiner.jpg) Pianist Orli Shaham was in Dallas Thursday night for a recital at Hamon Hall, a small space located within the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Her performance of works by William Bolcom, Brahms and Mussorgsky, though uneven and hampered by a bad instrument, was full of humor and sensitive moments, and her spoken remarks helped add a personal touch to the already intimate setting.
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| 17-Apr-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Der Thielemann brings the Staatskapelle Dresden and Brahms to New York | David Allen, unpredictableinevitability.com |
 “Der Sir”, they used to call him. The death of Sir Colin Davis has been a strikingly international event, and New York has been no exception. Over at Lincoln Center, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic opened their latest subscription run with “Nimrod” from Elgar’s Enigma Variations, a joint tribute to the British conductor and the people of Boston (another of Sir Colin’s haunts).Read full review... | ||
| 12-Apr-2013 Colston Hall | Natalia Lomeiko plays Tchaikovsky with the Bristol Ensemble at Colston Hall | Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres |
 Benedetti’s Beethoven was changed, at late notice, to Lomeiko’s Tchaikovsky. Sadly, the renowned violinist Nicola Benedetti was not able to make the performance, but her replacement was wonderful. Internationally established Russian violinist and professor at the Royal College of Music, Natalia Lomeiko stepped up to play the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major instead of Beethoven’s concerto. Especially considering this was an incredibly last-minute replacement, it was undoubtedly the highlight of the evening.
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| 12-Apr-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis play Jonathan Lloyd, Brahms and Tippett | Chris Garlick |
 Friday night’s BBC SO concert certainly drew in a large crowd, despite the presence of two unfamiliar works: a new one by Jonathan Lloyd and Tippett’s Fourth Symphony from 1977. The addition of the ever-popular pianist Stephen Hough to the lineup, playing the one of the most challenging concertos in the repertoire, Brahms’ First, must have helped the numbers.
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| 9-Apr-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Brahms meets Schoenberg: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in London for The Rest is Noise | Paul Kilbey |
 Tonight’s The Rest is Noise concert, featuring the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas and Yefim Bronfman, took on one of 20th-century music’s biggest questions. Anyone who has been following this huge concert series – or indeed the accompanying BBC documentary The Sound and the Fury – will no doubt be acquainted by now with Arnold Schoenberg and his angry, radical ways.Read full review... | ||
| 7-Apr-2013 Semperoper | A feast of Brahms in Dresden with Thielemann and Batiashvili | Matthew Lynch |
 Whatever our relationship with music we often have moments in our lives where the thing we’ve always loved feels like little more than a habit, or worse still a chore. You go to a concert and sit through it, and you know in your head that the orchestra played well and that the soloists were excellent, but your heart remains unmoved. Since the beginning of April I’d been disenchanted by classical music, for reasons I can’t quite articulate, and I needed an experience to blow the cobwebs away.Read full review... | ||
| 3-Apr-2013 Colston Hall | Paavo Järvi, Lisa Batiashvili and the Philharmonia Orchestra at Colston Hall | Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres |
 What a night. The conductor, Paavo Järvi, made the evening’s performance riveting, with a modest yet heartfelt performance. There were no egos on the stage, just unpretentious and pure classical music. The programme was three works long: two symphonies either side of a violin concerto. All three works were completely separate in quality and style, which allowed the evening to be diverse and exciting. The Philharmonia Orchestra added more instrumentalists to the stage for each piece, so the next work always felt bigger.
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| 30-Mar-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | Gergiev and the LSO in Brahms and Szymanowski choral works | Paul Kilbey |
 I don’t think Valery Gergiev has ever been out to claim that Brahms and Szymanowski were particularly similar composers. I certainly hope he hasn’t, at any rate, on the basis of his final LSO programme pairing the two of them. But that’s not to say they don’t make an intriguing match, and this meeting of the Pole’s Stabat Mater (1925–26) and the German’s Requiem (1865–68) was provocative and worthwhile.
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| 16-Mar-2013 Musée des Beaux-Arts: Salle Bourgie | The power of communication: Piano duets from Nézet-Séguin and Jennifer Bourdages in Montreal | Richard Turp |
 Montreal’s favourite musical son has become something of a world favourite in recent years. The Music Director of both the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin is also Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Principal Conductor of his native city’s Orchestre Métropolitain. With a calendar that also includes a horde of guest appearances with opera companies and other orchestras, he rarely has time to return home.Read full review... | ||
| 14-Mar-2013 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | The human Requiem of Brahms with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal | Andrew Crust |
 Carl Dahlhaus called Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem “one of those works in which the 19th century recognized its own identity”. This weighty statement was not only inspired by the great success the work found at its première, but also by the stylistic nature of the music and choice of text. Brahms was always stretching one ear backwards into the domain of the ancients, so to speak, and the other ever forward towards innovation.Read full review... | ||
| 14-Mar-2013 Birmingham Town Hall | Stephen Kovacevich plays the "three Bs" in Birmingham | Peter Marks |
 Though born in America, Stephen Kovacevich has lived in London since moving there to study with the great Dame Myra Hess at the age of eighteen. He clearly has a special rapport with British audiences, as his amiable manner in discussing his encores demonstrated. In fact, one of his “encores” was given at the start of the second half of the programme (“why do encores have to be at the end?” he joked).
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| 7-Mar-2013 Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall | Jazz trumpet meets the orchestra with the Sydney Symphony | Oliver Brett |
 For a composer who embraces the “popular” in music, using the subtitle High Art for his trumpet concerto is clearly a provocative but bold statement. Australian composer Graham Koehne has quoted Noël Coward’s play Private Lives, commenting: “Extraordinary how potent cheap music is”. However, despite the “popular” musical inspiration behind Koehne’s composition, few could claim that it is not “high art”.Read full review... | ||
| 24-Feb-2013 St Mary's Cathedral | RSNO chamber musicians play Bartók, Beethoven and Brahms | Alan Coady |
 Built by the prolific George Gilbert Scott (1811–78), St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow was opened in 1871. Now featuring Gwyneth Leech’s striking 1990 murals, including a triptych of the Easter Passion set in nearby Kelvingrove Park, it is a frequent venue for events such as this RSNO chamber concert. From a dais placed in the crossing of this intimate cathedral setting, a string quartet (later to be augmented to clarinet quintet) enjoyed an acoustic which, save for one brief, busy moment, offered a winning mix of clarity and warmth.Read full review... | ||
| 21-Feb-2013 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | Anxious dreams from Bloch, Brahms, Rouse and the New York Philharmonic | Meg Wilhoite |
 Dreams and anxieties, religious and otherwise, were the dominant themes at Thursday night’s New York Philharmonic performance.
The concert program worked backwards in time, starting with Phantasmata by composer-in-residence Christopher Rouse (completed in 1985), followed by Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo (1916), and finishing with Brahms’ Symphony no. 1 (published in 1877). The effect was such that the newness of the first piece conferred upon the following pieces a sense of freshness; the Bloch and Brahms felt just as “now” as the Rouse.
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| 15-Feb-2013 Sage: Hall One | Northern Sinfonia in love with Zehetmair, Brahms and Schumann | Jane Shuttleworth |
 The day after Valentine’s Day, and Hall One at The Sage Gateshead was filled with love – the love between an orchestra and their conductor, and the love that all the musicians on the stage felt for the composers they were playing, in this their third concert of a Brahms and Schumann double symphony cycle with conductor Thomas Zehetmair.
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| 13-Feb-2013 Théâtre Rialto | Classical music revisited with Collectif 9 | Andrew Crust |
 The string nonet Collectif 9 offers its public something truly as valuable as it is rare: classical repertoire “revisited with passion and fearlessness”. They are a group of very young and fiercely talented string players, many of whom play in the city’s professional orchestras. They enthusiastically align themselves with the growing movement called Classical Revolution which seeks to bring “art music” to a variety of venues and audiences with the goal of obliterating the stigmas of musty conventionalism and tradition far too often associated with the genre.
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| 8-Feb-2013 Kapelle Gstaad | Some memorable moments in a mixed cello concert | David Karlin |
 Reviewing concerts by young performers can be a tricky business, particularly when the material is highly varied and the way it is played even more so. Whenever I formed an opinion about the cello playing of Pablo Ferrández in today’s concert in Gstaad Chapel, I found myself contradicting it in the following piece. So here are some of the highlights of a concert by a young performer who has great promise but is some way off the finished article.
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| 7-Feb-2013 Kapelle Gstaad | Cello music romantic and modern in Gstaad | David Karlin |
| One of the more attractive features of the Sommets Musicaux festival is the series of concerts in Gstaad chapel, each given by a young musician who has been spending the week attending classes, with a mentor – in this case, Mario Brunello – and each including a world première written by the festival’s composer in residence – this year, it’s the turn of Nicolas Bacri.
This year focuses on the cello, and today’s concert featured Swiss cellist Sayaka Selina playing a mixed programme of Romantic and modern works, accompanied by German pianist Mathis Bereuter.
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| 27-Jan-2013 St George's Bristol | The Sitkovetsky Piano Trio play Brahms and Smetana at St George's Bristol | Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres |
 This concert was a wonderful way to spend a Sunday morning. It was the first of the Sitkovetsky Piano Trio’s coffee-morning concerts – “Coffee Classics” – in which they gave a passion-fuelled performance of Brahms’ Piano Trio no. 2 in C major, and Smetena’s Piano Trio in G minor. As a piano trio, the three have won many awards, and quite rightly so, as their presence on stage is collectively brilliant. St George’s as a venue in Bristol often astounds with the talent that walks on to the stage.Read full review... | ||
| 25-Jan-2013 Cadogan Hall | From tragedy to pastoral scenes: RPO at Cadogan Hall | Madelaine Jones |
 Brahms, Chopin, Beethoven: the programme of he Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's most recent Cadogan Hall concert, under the baton of Fabien Gabel, was unashamedly mainstream. The opening item of the programme was the Brahms Tragic Overture. The opening strident chords managed to be agitated yet pensive, interrupted silence hanging in the air as each note dissipated once more.Read full review... | ||
| 19-Jan-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | Stephen Hough explores Brahms and Schumann at the Barbican | Madelaine Jones |
 There are very few musicians who could lay claim to a MacArthur Fellowship, and even fewer pianists, but then it seems that Stephen Hough is no ordinary pianist: writer, composer and recognised polymath, Mr Hough’s phenomenal playing skills still find time to shine alongside his many other extraordinary talents, and his performance at this recital was no exception.Read full review... | ||
| 18-Jan-2013 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | Bronfman, Maazel and the New York Phil in seamless interpretations of Brahms and Sibelius | Rebecca Lentjes |
 Johannes Brahms was a Romantic with a capital R. Born six years after Beethoven’s death, Brahms was so determined to continue the composer’s colossal musical legacy that he labored over his First Symphony (often nicknamed “Beethoven’s Tenth”) for over a decade. He spent nearly as much time laboring over his Piano Concerto no. 1 in D minor, an all-engrossing display of raw passion that explores virtually the entire spectrum of human emotion in less than an hour.
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| 17-Jan-2013 Bridgewater Hall | The Hallé and André de Ridder: Beethoven, Ligeti and Brahms | Rohan Shotton |
 Having previously been Assistant Conductor at The Hallé, André de Ridder returned to a bitterly cold Manchester to conduct a fascinating programme, culminating a beautifully autumnal account of Brahms’ Symphony no.4.
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| 13-Jan-2013 Lincoln Center: Alice Tully Hall | Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Dvořák and Brahms | Joseph Pfender |
 The talent was top-shelf at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday evening, kicking off 2013 for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with a cello sonata by Brahms, and trios by Dvořák and Haydn. Emerson String Quartet violinist Philip Setzer joined co-artistic directors of the Society David Finckel on (cello) and Wu Han (piano). The concertgoers filled the hall to near-capacity, braving New York’s flu season for the chance to hear the trio perform the Dvořák trios that the group has recently recorded.
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| 12-Jan-2013 Meyerson Symphony Center | A Romantic night out: Dvořák, Tchaikovsky and Brahms at the Dallas Symphony | Evan Mitchell |
 Mirroring the January ritual of all who indulge in one final dessert-binge before dieting to honor ill-fated New Year’s resolutions, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra got plenty of Romanticism out of their system this weekend before their Mozart Festival, set to last the remainder of this month. They hosted two young guest artists, conductor Pablo González and violinist Nicola Benedetti, for works by Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, and Brahms.Read full review... | ||
| 9-Jan-2013 Wigmore Hall | Understated bravado: Leon McCawley at Wigmore Hall | Frances Wilson |
 Acclaimed British pianist Leon McCawley opened the Wigmore Hall’s 2013 London Pianoforte Series with a varied programme of piano music by masters of the instrument spanning two centuries, from Bach to Rachmaninov.
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| 15-Dec-2012 Salle Pleyel | Memory and (re)discovery: Gergiev and the LSO at the Salle Pleyel | Leopold Tobisch |
 The Salle Pleyel’s programmatic dichotomy between “memory” and “creation” continually seeks to promote the more established names in classical music, whilst also shedding light on lesser-known repertoires from all musical epochs.Read full review... | ||
| 12-Dec-2012 Barbican Centre: Hall | The LSO and Gergiev in Brahms and Szymanowski 4 | Chris Garlick |
 The first half of the 20th century must surely be one of the most richly creative periods in history. This was a time of great social and political change, spearheaded by two most devastating wars that saw death and destruction on a new level of cold efficiency. Rising from the ashes of this massive upheaval, the arts produced a glorious outpouring of works and ideas not seen since the renaissance and never on this scale.Read full review... | ||
| 9-Dec-2012 Eastbourne Congress Theatre | Alexandra Silocea dazzles with the LPO and Jurowski at Congress Theatre, Eastbourne | Evan Dickerson |
 It is often interesting to hear performers one knows well in a different setting, and this concert was a case in point for me. The London Philharmonic Orchestra have performed often in Eastbourne since the 1930s and at the Congress Theatre for the past seventeen seasons, but this was my first visit to the venue. Based on this concert, I am hopeful that it will not be my last. The reading of Brahms’ Tragic Overture allowed ample opportunity to assess the acoustic, finding that it favoured a bright violin timbre, whilst allowing the lower strings to be resonant.Read full review... | ||
| 9-Dec-2012 Davies Symphony Hall | Chamber music with members of the San Francisco Symphony and Yefim Bronfman | Brenden Guy |
-Dario-Acosta-6x4.jpg) The San Francisco Symphony recently returned from an exhausting six-city, ten-concert tour of Asia and now enter the month of December with a selection of seasonal, festive performances. Before decking the halls of Davies Hall, however, they found time for another offering of classical excellence on Sunday afternoon with a superbly balanced program of chamber works by Harbison, Dohnányi and Brahms performed by members of the orchestra.
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| 4-Dec-2012 The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall | An evening of Brahms with the Ontario Phil and Anton Kuerti | Patrick P.L. Lam |
 The Ontario Philharmonic Orchestra is a regional orchestra that has 56 years of history in the province of Ontario. Led by music director Marco Parisotto, the Ontario Phil enjoys local community support to performances given chiefly at the Regent Theater in Oshawa, Ontario. Recently, they have expanded their concerts to include the venue at Koerner Hall in Toronto, partly to take advantage of its fine acoustics and transparency of sound. They also appear to want to make themselves more accessible to the growing Toronto population.Read full review... | ||
| 1-Dec-2012 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Speech to song: The London Philharmonic Orchestra plays Brahms and Zimmermann | Madelaine Jones |
 A German Requiem and two German composers sounds like your standard concert menu, but this concert was an interesting juxtaposition of two very different halves, the first filled by German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s little-heard Ecclesiastical Action, and the second by the much-loved, much-performed German Requiem by Brahms.Read full review... | ||
| 26-Nov-2012 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | Taiwan National Choir shines in Montreal | Robert Markow |
 Taiwan is barely on the radar as far as most Western classical music aficionados are concerned. A recent visit, however, by the 40-member Taiwan National Choir certainly alerted those who heard it that something extraordinary must be going on over there. Their concert in Montreal, last stop on a six-city tour of Ontario and Quebec, provided one of the most outstanding and satisfying musical experiences I’ve had this year.Read full review... | ||
| 24-Nov-2012 Kings Place: Hall One | Brahms Unwrapped: Natalie Clein plays the Cello Sonatas at Kings Place | Emily Owen |
 The Brahms cello sonatas in E minor and F major are two pillars of the cello repertoire and represent, rightly so, the first career peak for performers. Together they cover the full range of emotion, from dark, brooding introspection to the playful nature of the middle movements. Written 21 years apart, they are united by a slow movement, which was originally conceived for the first but found its home in the second two decades later.
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| 23-Nov-2012 Kings Place: Hall One | Mark van de Wiel and Endymion play Brahms | Madelaine Jones |
 Whenever Brahms is mentioned, songs and symphonies often come straight to mind: after all, the man was the master of all things symphonic, even his piano sonatas being called “veiled symphonies” by his mentor, Schumann. But what would a Brahms marathon be without a nod to his chamber music? In honour of such great and less performed repertoire, Kings Place enjoyed a visit from the long-running ensemble Endymion, a mix-and-match chamber group with a solid reputation, for the latest installment in the venue’s Brahms Unwrapped series.
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| 13-Nov-2012 Théâtre des Champs-Élysées | Four titans on one stage: Bach, Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées | Leopold Tobisch |
 Bach, Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart: four insurmountable composers, each a titan of classical music in his own right. Every one of these composers would normally dominate a position of focus in a classical concert programme. It is rare, therefore, to see these composers side by side in a concert, simply due to a need for variety and not a heavy-handed evening filled with canonical works.
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| 11-Nov-2012 Siuntio Church | The Kuusisto effect: Brahms, Ives and Ligeti in Siuntio, Finland | Bèla Bianca |
 Last Sunday, Pekka Kuusisto performed in Siuntio, a Finnish town not so far from Helsinki, as part of the Lux Musicae Festival, together with pianist Joonas Ahonen and hornist Hervé Joulain. In the penumbra of the candles and the gentle lights of a beautiful church from the 1400s, the first notes of Brahms’ Violin Sonata in G major resounded.
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| 7-Nov-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | Krystian Zimerman plays Debussy, Szymanowski and Brahms in Hong Kong | Patrick P.L. Lam |
 Hong Kong has had the good fortune to present Krystian Zimerman several times in recent years, thanks to presenters at the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Those who have been following Zimerman’s concert engagements will realize much of his activities today are focused in Europe and Asia. Flying in from Canada, in part for this occasion, Zimerman’s recital was one that I highly anticipated since his last appearance in Hong Kong in June 2010. Over 90% of the Culture Center seats were filled in this highlight recital of the 2012/13 concert season.
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| 2-Nov-2012 Bridgewater Hall | Harry Christophers and The Sixteen: Brahms in Manchester | Rohan Shotton |
 Harry Christophers brought his Sixteen to Manchester for a night of deeply romantic choral music at The Bridgewater Hall. Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem was a foreseeable success, but the seldom-heard Vocal Quartets, settings of Sternau, Schiller, Daumer and Goethe, were a delightful addition to the programme.
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| 23-Oct-2012 Bridgewater Hall | Michael Sanderling and the Dresden Philharmonic in Manchester | Rohan Shotton |
 The Dresden Philharmonic brought classy Brahms, Barber and Dvořák to Manchester as part of their UK tour in a forward-looking programme of musical new beginnings. If incisive thrust was occasionally lacking, they more than compensated with elegance all evening.
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| 22-Oct-2012 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | Brahms, Brahms, and Brahms from Gergiev and the LSO in New York | David Allen, unpredictableinevitability.com |
 You can’t say Valery Gergiev doesn’t get around. Four concerts in New York over the last week and a half of October, two with the London Symphony Orchestra, one with the World Orchestra for Peace, and another with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra might seem a little like overkill, especially for a conductor as notable for hot and cold performances as for his workload. The LSO, too, have had it difficult for the last few months, with extensive tours through Europe, London concerts with replacement conductors, and now a mini-residency at Lincoln Center.Read full review... | ||
| 14-Oct-2012 Semperoper | Christian Thielemann launches his Brahms cycle in Dresden | Matthew Lynch |
 The Staatskapelle Dresden is widely recognised as one of the best orchestras in the world, featuring in tenth place in Gramophone magazine’s 2008 article ranking the world’s 20 finest orchestras. This season the orchestra welcomes Christian Thielemann as its new main conductor, and this concert began his much anticipated Brahms cycle with his new orchestra.
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