Haitink's 85th birthday celebration with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe

By Jack Johnson, 08 June 2014

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Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 5 June 2014

Schumann, Manfred Overture, Op.115

Berg, Violin Concerto "To the Memory of an Angel"

Beethoven, Symphony no. 6 in F major "Pastoral", Op.68

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Bernard Haitink, Conductor

Isabelle Faust, Violin

Chamber Orchestra of Europe brings all-Brahms evening to Philadelphia

Cameron Kelsall, 10th December

Conducted by honorary member Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the COE’s all-Brahms concert features the composer's First Symphony and final major work, the Double Concerto for Violin and Cello.

****1

Beauty from Iestyn Davies, energy from Robin Ticciati in Gstaad

David Karlin, 2nd February

Iestyn Davies shows how to make every word count in a fairly standard sampler of Baroque arias; Ticciati is a fireball on the podium with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

***11

Robin Ticciati shuffles incidental music with the COE

Alexander Hall, 19th April

Beethoven was the spiritus rector of Ticciati's COE concert at the Elbphilharmonie, with Lisa Batiashvili in commanding form for that composer's fiddle concerto.

****1

Jansen dazzles Antwerp in fine Prokofiev with Pappano and the COE

Clare Varney, 3rd December

Janine Jansen’s exquisite reading of Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto leaves the Belgian audience on a high.

****1

Yannick Nézet-Séguin's Beethoven cycle concludes

Alexander Hall, 10th July

Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe bring to a triumphant end their Beethoven cycle in Baden-Baden with coruscating performances of the Second and Third Symphonies.

*****

Nézet-Séguin and the COE bring Beethoven to Baden-Baden

Cameron Kelsall, 4th July

The elegance of the First Symphony served as a perfect curtain raiser for the mammoth, exultant Ninth.

*****

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Jack Johnson

After completing a postgraduate degree in Music at King's College London in 2013, Jack now works in development for an arts charity based in London. Aside from regularly attending concerts, he plays piano and clarinet and enjoys singing with several choirs. Particularly passions include Bach, Prokofiev and the neglected choral works of Hummel