Sō Percussion and guests bring a vibrant and multivalent performance to BAM

Steve Reich turned 80 last month, and New Yorkers finally pencilled him, between the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade and the daunting presidential election, for big birthday bash at Carnegie Hall.

On Thursday night, I left a concert longing for a tranquilizer, but at Saturday night’s Man Forever/Sō Percussion concert, I began wishing for sedatives about three minutes into the first set. Before the performance, the audience sat entranced by a subtle humming drifting through the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Nico Muhly describes A Scream and an Outrage, the weekend of events he curated at the Barbican this weekend, as like a dinner party, “a gathering of friends and family new and old; loosely organised”.

Simon Rattle, der am tags zuvor zum Ehrendirigenten der Staatskapelle Berlin gekürt wurde, begeistert mit Mahlers Zweiten Symphonie.

Ein tolles Team: In Baden-Baden begeisterte die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen unter Tarmo Peltokoski mit dem Geiger Daniel Lozakovich in einem Programm voller Vielfalt und Virtuosität.