Oct 11, 2026 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Saturday, October 10, 2026 Orchestra Hall, Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan Perhaps unusually, Joan Tower’s 1991 half-hour Concerto for Orchestra (premiered in St. Louis conducted by Leonard Slatkin who then...
Oct 8, 2026 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
BR photo from rehearsals – Jürgen Leitner, BRSO percussionist Thursday, July 2, 2026 Herkulessaal, Munich ***I HAD STARTED THIS REVIEW, BUT THE BR-KLASSIK RELAY CHANGED TO A 2007 CONCERT WITH MARISS JANSONS. I WROTE TO BAVARIAN RADIO (RESPONSE IN COMMENTS)*** July 2:...
Oct 8, 2026 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Antti Auvinen (born 1974) Wednesday, October 7, 2026 Concert Hall, Helsinki Music Centre, Mannerheimintie 13 A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland 1905 witnessed the first, if failed, Russian Revolution. Five years later, in leafy England, Ralph Vaughan Williams was connecting...
Oct 4, 2026 | Concert Reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Saturday, October 3, 2026 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Víkingur Ólafsson replaced Daniil Trifonov for this excellent Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 (my joint-first Desert Island Piano Concerto, the other being...
Oct 2, 2026 | Concert Reviews
BR photo from last night’s concert; Symphony of Psalms Friday, October 2, 2026 Isarphilharmonie, Munich Stravinsky, one of Sir Simon’s signature composers, but would the Russian be identifiable by the ‘lost and found’ Chant funèbre, music that...
Oct 1, 2026 | Concert Reviews
Andrea Tarrodi (born 1981) Saturday, September 26, 2026 Powell Hall at the Jack C. Taylor Music Center, North Grand Boulevard, St Louis, Missouri Good to have an overture, and this by Berlioz is as good as any other, here flowing expressively (cor anglais, attractive...