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CONCERT REVIEW | Grieg, Brahms, & Dvořák | Philharmonia Orchestra/Shoji & Ashkenazy | Royal Festival Hall, London | "the performance felt like music-making from an old world”

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CONCERT REVIEW | Rimsky-Korsakov, Ibert, Borne, & Berlioz | Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra/Demin & Gergiev | Cadogan Hall, London | "One could see how the clear and bright sonority of Demin’s flute... won him such prestige"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Beethoven & Berlioz | Philharmonia Orchestra/Blomstedt | Royal Festival Hall, London | "the rapport between Blomstedt and the musicians shone well"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Prokofiev & Shostakovich | Philharmonia Orchestra/Matsuev & Kochanovsky | Royal Festival Hall, London | "Denis Matsuev’s impassioned piano playing in the Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto complemented a superlative performance of Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Mozart & Bruckner | London Symphony Orchestra/Fellner & Haitink | Barbican, London | "Haitink’s kind of wisdom and insight doesn’t come easily"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Bach & Mozart | Philharmonia Orchestra/Chamayou & Herreweghe | Royal Festival Hall, London | "Objective time succumbs to the recognition of a musical journey, and one experiences a heavenly length of awe and admiration"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Schumann, Beethoven, Bartok, & Mendelssohn | London Symphony Orchestra/Anderszewski & Gardiner | Barbican, London | "the brass and timpani propelled the intensely melodic narrative of the first movement"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Bartók & Bruckner | London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle | Barbican, London | "the LSO weren’t only about precision and tonal splendours, but also purveyors of big ideas"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Brahms, Debussy, & Enescu | London Symphony Orchestra/Kavakos & Rattle | Barbican, London | "it was the very contrast between the attitudes of Rattle and Kavakos that deemed the collaboration momentous"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Weber, Tchaikovsky, & Bruckner | London Philharmonic Orchestra/Baeva & Jurowski | Royal Festival Hall, London | "Jurowski’s shaping of the music betrayed a kind of sobriety and warmth"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Kodály, MacMillan, & Shostakovich | London Symphony Orchestra/Moore & Noseda | Barbican, London | "Expressively immediate and with unreserved passion"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Mussorgsky, Szymanowski, & Tchaikovsky | London Symphony Orchestra/Szeps-Znaider & Jordan | Barbican, London | "It was a masterclass display of contrasts and narrative"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Wagner, Schoenberg, & Bruckner | Philharmonia Orchestra/Salonen | Royal Festival Hall, London | "Fierce, loud, yet microscopically exact, there was little doubt of meticulousness"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Mozart & Bruckner | BBC Symphony Orchestra/Grosvenor & Oramo | Royal Albert Hall, London | "the conviction forged by Oramo was both hair-raising and refreshing"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Webern, Mahler, & Wagner | Philharmonia Orchestra/Kampe, Smith, Selig, Elder, & Salonen | Royal Albert Hall, London | "An overarching success, then, highlighting the excitement of the Salonen-Philharmonia magic"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Wagner, Debussy, & Stravinsky | Hallé Orchestra/Bevan, Stéphany, & Elder | Royal Albert Hall, London | "Elder demonstrated sensitivity and imagination, patiently building up the adventurous colours of the score"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Shostakovich | London Symphony Orchestra/Benedetti & Noseda | Barbican, London | "all any Shostakovich enthusiast could have wished for, full of zest and a smirk"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Rossini, Grieg, & Tchaikovsky | Philharmonia Orchestra/Kim & Sung | Royal Festival Hall, London | "what drew Kim as original yet was his balance between boldness and silence, as the echoes of the slightest of notes aired poignancy as much as imagination"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Dukas, Rachmaninov & Berlioz | Philharmonia Orchestra/Kozhukhin & Järvi | Royal Festival Hall, London | "the tuttis had colour and swing, and the climax copious yet far from overwhelming"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Widmann, Lutosławski, & Brahms | Berliner Philharmoniker & Rattle | Royal Festival Hall, London | "One had to simply admire this klang while it was still there, for the silence that followed the last note signaled the end of an era"