Jeffrey Kahane and LA Chamber Orchestra: Celebrating 15 years together

By Ted Ayala, 11 March 2012

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Reviewed at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles on 7 March 2012

Bach, French Suite no. 5 in G major, BWV816

Kahane, Django: Tiny Variations on a Big Dog

Chopin, Mazurkas (a selection of three)

Chopin, Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op.60

Chopin, Polonaise no. 7 in A flat major "Polonaise-fantaisie", Op.61

Brahms, Piano Trio no. 1 in B major, Op.8

Jeffrey Kahane, Piano

Margaret Batjer, Violin

Andrew Shulman, Cello

Jeffrey Kahane et l'Orchestre de Mulhouse, du style classique à Shaw

Jean Landras, 16th November

À la Filature, le pianiste et chef d'orchestre fait belle impression, aux commandes de la Symphonie n° 5 de Sibelius comme dans le Concerto n° 4 de Beethoven. Très belle pièce de Caroline Shaw.

****1

Brahms unleashed in South Pasadena

Laurence Vittes, 12th July

After tumbling deliriously to the end, if they had played one of Brahms' Hungarian Dances as an encore, they would have had them the audience dancing in the aisles.

****1

Jurowski marks Hans Werner Henze’s centenary at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 31st May

Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin deliver a lean, razor-sharp exploration of captivity and survival, balancing Beethoven’s and Brahms’ structural clarity against the devastating, high-fidelity distortion of Henze’s Ninth Symphony.

****1

Mischievous Pan at Hong Kong Sinfonietta's French May

Christopher Halls, 30th May

French clarinettist Raphaël Sévère unearths beauty in Nielsen's concerto and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta impress in two settings of Pan's antics at the French May Festival.

****1

Alsop conducts a substitute Marsalis symphony at Carnegie Hall

David Wolfson, 29th May

The premiere of Wynton Marsalis’ Symphony no. 5 is postponed, substituted by selections from his Jungle Symphony, along with a disappointing Beethoven’s Seventh at Carnegie Hall.

***11

Christian Gerhaher: pure poetry in glorious Wigmore Hall recital

Dominic Lowe, 29th May

Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber survey composers from Beethoven to Berg in a varied and deeply moving recital.

*****

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Ted Ayala

Ted Ayala is a writer and musicologist born and raised in Los Angeles. Aside from classical music he loves literature (especially from Latin America and Japan), learning languages, reading about history, video games from the 1980s-1990s, and cats. You can follow his blog here.