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.

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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.

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Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the Hallé in Mahler and Vaughan Williams

Leighton Jones, 16th April

Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder provide an apt, if somewhat unexpected, partner to Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.

****1

Carlo Rizzi brings Respighi’s Rome to Birmingham

Robert Gainer, 15th April

Carlos Rizzi believes that Puccini’s orchestrations are good enough to stand alone, without their vocal lines, but can the drama compete with the romance of Respighi?

****1

Tharaud and Queyras celebrate 30 years together in Paris

David Karlin, 14th April

Crisp and elegant cello and piano playing is more successful in French and early repertoire than in Brahms.

****1

Poetry and precision: Seong-Jin Cho returns to Carnegie Hall

Susan Stempleski, 12th April

A little over a year after his marathon all-Ravel recital at the Hall, the Korean pianist returns with an exquisitely performed program of Bach, Schoenberg, Robert Schumann and Chopin.

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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.