SEASON OPENING IN LONDON

The Telegraph reviews the opening season concert with the Philharmonia and Esa Pekka Salonen in London “The London orchestras are vying with each other to make the biggest splash at the season’s beginning, and the Philharmonia’s was mightily impressive. It was...

“BEETHOVEN’S ARTISTIC JOURNEY”

The Guardian reviews the opening season concert with the Philharmonia and Esa Pekka Salonen in London “Some conductors would be content to open an orchestral season with Beethoven’s Choral symphony and leave it at that. Not Esa-Pekka Salonen....

“DAZZLINGLY INVIGORATING”

Classical Source reviews the opening season concert with the Philharmonia and Esa Pekka Salonen in London “On the strength of this performance alone, Leif Ove Andsnes is currently one of the master Beethovenians. In the First Piano Concerto, which wonderfully...

QUASI UNA FANTASIA

The Financial Times reviews the opening night with the New York Philharmonic “When is an opening not an opening? The Philharmonic promises a “Gala Opening” on September 27 … On Thursday, however, the orchestra offered a more serious, more conventional...

“EXTRAORINDARY COMMAND”

Classical Source reviews thew opening night with the New York Philharmonic “… György Kurtág’s …quasi una fantasia… was the first music played. Hungarian Kurtág (although born in Romania in 1926) began his music studies in Budapest. After the Hungarian...

“STYLISH, COMMITTED, FRESH”

www.concertonet reviews the opening night with the New York Philharmonic “It takes chutzpah to start the 2012-2013 New York Philharmonic season with a stage virtually empty. And to finish the program with a stage jam-packed from proscenium to proscenium with...