I've created this page to provide links to my professionally-published concert reviews, a few other selected reviews, and my other musical journalism -- David Bratman
"Reactions to the Record", reports on Stanford historical performances symposia. April 2007. Letters and reply. January 2009. April 2012.
Composer gallery, Bruckner, Hindemith, and Rimsky-Korsakov
Eight is Enough - listing and commentary on the "Symphony No. 8" by 24 different composers
Classical recordings for folks who don't listen to much classical, December 2006
Shostakovich At His Centenary, Part One and Part Two
Previews and highlights of upcoming events
Music@Menlo, Summer 2013
Le Petit Trianon, San Jose, April 2013
Stanford's Bing Concert Hall, November 2012
South Bay and Peninsula, Fall 2012
South Bay and Peninsula, Fall 2011
The Vienna Philharmonic visits the Bay Area, February 2011
Portrait of music in San Jose, June 2008
Portrait of music in San Jose, May 2006
Cabrillo Festival Orchestra
August 6, 2011: Kats-Chernin, Ranjbaran, Adamo, Mizuno, Corigliano
August 2, 2008: Chang, Bates, Corigliano
Cadenza (Santa Cruz Chamber Orchestra)
May 29, 2010: Britten, Hindemith
October 24, 2009: Honegger, Vasks, Shostakovich
October 11, 2008: Sibelius, Vasks, Dvorák
California Symphony
September 30, 2012: Márquez, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius
Symphony Orchestra of the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory
November 17, 2009: Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Raimkulova, Bernstein
Mission Chamber Orchestra of San Jose
April 30, 2011: Schumann, Gluck, Ewazen, Beethoven
New Century Chamber Orchestra
December 12, 2012: Handel, Auerbach, Assad, Vivaldi
March 25, 2011: Bach, Schubert, Mendelssohn
September 11, 2009: Bach-Reitz/Starr, Mussorgsky-Assad
December 12, 2008: Handel, Bach, Cristo, Brumel, Buxtehude, Lauridsen, Assad
Oakland East Bay Symphony
April 21, 2006: Mozart, Ravel, Stenhammar
January 20, 2006: Puts, Mozart, Brahms
Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra
December 16, 2006: Fish, Spohr, Beethoven
Peninsula Symphony
May 15, 2009: Tchaikovsky, Bruch, Orff
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
February 13, 2013: Haydn, J.C. Bach, Mozart
October 21, 2005: Boccherini, Arriaga
Redwood Symphony
April 13, 2013: Debussy, Garner, Theofanides
February 9, 2013: Corigliano, Harrison, Higdon
February 12, 2011: Rimsky-Korsakov, Vaughan Williams, Glass
September 25, 2010: Shostakovich, Paganini, Adès, Copland
April 24, 2010: Bartók, Shostakovich
April 4, 2009: Bartók, Khachaturian, Janácek (Preview)
April 6, 2008: Lutoslawski, Mahler
June 10, 2007: Dvorák, Bartók, Copland
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
January 27, 2008: Debussy, Berlioz
Royal Philharmonic
January 28, 2012: Kodály, Liszt, Brahms
Russian National Orchestra
February 14, 2008: Schubert, Safronov, Brahms
March 26, 2006: Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky
St. Peter's Chamber Orchestra
May 1, 2010: Beethoven, Salieri, Holst, Prokofiev
October 10, 2009: Beethoven, Schubert
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
January 1, 2012: Beethoven
February 7, 2009: J.C. Bach, Festinger, Mahler, Copland
January 1, 2009: Handel, Mozart, Coleman, Haydn, Gershwin
San Francisco Symphony
May 2, 2013: early Beethoven
April 17, 2013: Beethoven, Nielsen
January 11, 2013: Adams, Debussy, Bernstein
October 31 & November 1, 2012: Harrison, Cowell, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff
October 4, 2012: Pärt, Bartók, Respighi
June 14, 2012: Fauré, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff
Barbary Coast and Beyond, May 10, 2012: Meyerbeer, Foster, Délibes, Bull, Liszt, Gottschalk, Wieniawski, Bellini, Offenbach, Stockman, Kreisler, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Sousa, Saint-Saëns
February 17, 2012: Schreker, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saëns
November 23, 2011: Wagner, Brahms, Schoenberg
November 11, 2011: Schubert
December 2, 2010: Adams
November 3, 2010: Schnittke, Haydn, Orff
May 5, 2010: Dalbavie, Beethoven, Brahms
February 5, 2010: Schubert, Ives-Brant
June 17, 2007: Prokofiev.
May 17, 2006: Varèse, W. Schuman, R. Schumann
November 19, 2004: Martinu, Mendelssohn, Haydn
Beethoven's Vienna Festival, May 2004: Beethoven, Clementi, Wölfl, Steibelt, Reicha, Cherubini, Dussek
June 7, 2000: Ives, Cage, Feldman, Babbitt, Riley
San Jose Chamber Orchestra
January 6, 2013: Fung, Lewis, Harrison, Dee, Heisinger
April 10, 2011: Wong, Martin, Bohmler, Mahler, Avshalomov, Furman
January 9, 2011: Bach, G. Galindo, Pärt, Villa-Lobos
January 10, 2010: Furman, A. Galindo
Sphinx Virtuosi
October 19, 2011: Mozart, Halvorsen, Perkinson, Plaza, Ginastera, Bach
Symphony Silicon Valley
December 1, 2012: Brahms, Tchaikovsky
September 29, 2012: Rossini, Berlioz, Liszt, Beethoven
June 2, 2012: Grieg, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius
October 1, 2011: Amram, Holst
June 4, 2011: Piazzolla, Dorman, Mendelssohn
October 16, 2010: Dohnányi, Ravel, Kodály, Bartók, Brahms, Sarasate
May 15, 2010: Mendelssohn, Bruch, Tchaikovsky
June 6, 2009: Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Haydn
May 9, 2009: Shostakovich, Beethoven
March 26-29, 2009: Berlioz, Brahms, Dvorák (Preview)
March 29, 2008: Brahms, Beethoven
September 29, 2007: Beethoven, Amram, Janácek
January 20, 2007: Beethoven, O'Connor, Dvorák
September 30, 2006: Borodin, Higdon, Tchaikovsky
October 1, 2005: Mendelssohn, Bernstein, Beethoven
April 30, 2005: Strauss, Beethoven
October 30, 2004: Vaughan Williams, Corigliano, Higdon, Tchaikovsky
October 9, 2004: Copland, Korngold, Gershwin
Vienna Philharmonic
February 25, 2011: Schubert, Wagner, Bartók
Alexander String Quartet
September 24 & 25, 2006: Shostakovich (with Roger Woodward)
Aulos Ensemble
An Evening in the Home of J.S. Bach, December 16, 2012: Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, Telemann, C.P.E. Bach, J.C. Bach
Calder String Quartet
November 5, 2012: Stravinsky, Mozart, Adès, Mendelssohn
March 30, 2011: Shostakovich, Rouse, Schnittke (with Gloria Cheng)
Carducci String Quartet
October 21, 2012: Haydn, Debussy, Mendelssohn
Carmel Bach Festival
July 24, 2008: Bach (and Brahms)
Claremont Piano Trio
April 5, 2006: Haydn, Kirchner, Schumann
Cypress String Quartet
April 19, 2013: Dvorák, Higdon, Schubert (with Christine Brandes)
January 10, 2010: Beethoven, Furman
Del Sol String Quartet
December 7, 2012: Ward, Beecher, Frank, Cmiel, Duddell, Dong
November 9, 2006: Blitzstein, Body, Lindsay, Vali
Elias String Quartet
March 29, 2013: Purcell, Schumann, Andres (with Jonathan Biss)
Emerson String Quartet
October 15, 2008: Shostakovich
January 13, 2006: Nielsen, Sibelius, Grieg
Escher String Quartet
February 22, 2013: Beethoven
September 28, 2008: Mozart, Zemlinsky, Shostakovich, Beethoven
Ives String Quartet
February 15, 2013: Haydn, Conte, Tchaikovsky
October 7, 2012: Haydn, Cowell, Smetana
Lark String Quartet
October 24, 2010: Dvorák, Wiprud, Higdon, Mendelssohn, Ruehr
Mandelring String Quartet
March 16, 2012: Mendelssohn, Séjourné, Debussy, Rosauro (with Katarzyna Mycka)
Musicians from Marlboro
April 3, 2011: Janácek, Mozart, Mendelssohn
Menlo Festival
August 11, 2012: Schoenfield, Mendelssohn, Moszkowski, Chausson (plus Mozart, Bartók)
July 29, 2012: Herrmann, Caplet, Respighi, Stravinsky (plus Beethoven, Mendelssohn)
August 10, 2011: Brahms, Chopin, Fauré (plus Brahms, Schumann)
July 30, 2011: Bach, C. Schumann, Vivaldi, Brahms
July 24, 2011: Brahms, Bartók, Enescu
May 8, 2011: Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann
July 27, 2010: Britten, Walton, Elgar (plus Brahms, Shostakovich)
July 31, 2009: Mendelssohn
July 24, 2009: Beethoven, Mendelssohn (plus Spohr, Larsen)
July 28, 2008: Dvorák, Wolf, Brahms, Schumann
August 9, 2007: Beethoven, Copland, Neikrug, Ravel, Brahms (plus Haydn, Stravinsky, Dvorák)
July 23, 2007: Schnittke, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky (plus Beethoven)
August 10, 2006: Bach, Messiaen, Mozart (plus Franck)
August 3 & 7, 2005: Beethoven
July 30, 2005: Beethoven
Miró String Quartet
January 23, 2011: Schubert, Beethoven
July 30, 2005: Beethoven
Music at the Mission
March 12, 2011: Rossini, Erb, Bottesini, Sydeman, Schumann, Bedrossian
March 13, 2010: Janácek, Hatzis, Schoenfield, Messiaen
Orion String Quartet
March 3, 2010: Bach, Kirchner, Beethoven, Brahms (with Peter Serkin, piano)
Other Minds
September 17, 2011: Fluxus event
November 12, 2009: Cowell
Paris Piano Trio
November 2, 2008: Fauré, Schumann, Mendelssohn
Prazak String Quartet
March 13, 2005: Smetana, Janácek, Dvorák
St. Lawrence String Quartet
January 11, 2013: Haydn
October 23, 2011: Haydn, Golijov, Schubert
April 5, 2009: Haydn, Adams, Dvorák
October 14, 2007: Haydn, Beethoven, Adams
December 3, 2006: Dohnányi, Shostakovich, Dvorák (with Jon Kimura Parker)
San Francisco Piano Quartet
March 22, 2009: Dvorak, Burleigh, Goldmark, Gershwin, Bernstein, Bass
San Francisco Symphony Chamber Musicians
October 30, 2005: Mozart, Rossini, Villa-Lobos, Dvorák
Santa Cruz Chamber Players
October 30, 2010: Glazunov, Pratorius, Schubert, Szymanowski, Ravel
Shanghai String Quartet
October 3, 2010: Zhou, Penderecki, Jiang, Schubert
Takács String Quartet
February 13, 2010: Schumann, MacMillan, Beethoven
March 12, 2006: Beethoven
Vertavo String Quartet
January 26, 2011: Haydn, Janácek, Frank, Beethoven
Vilnius String Quartet
November 7, 2004: Schubert, Prokofiev, Beethoven
Chee-Yun (violin) and Wendy Chen (piano)
May 7, 2006: Vitali, de Falla, Fauré, Strauss, Sarasate
Frederic Chiu (piano)
May 14, 2006: Bach-Busoni, Schubert-Liszt, Prokofiev-Chiu, Beethoven-Liszt
Steven Isserlis (cello) and Stephen Hough (piano)
April 15, 2005: Brahms, Hummel, Suk, Martinu
Cecile Licad (piano)
October 14, 2012: Liszt, Chopin
Menlo Festival
January 16, 2011: Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Ravel
Gil Shaham (violin)
November 6, 2011: Bach
Jeffrey Siegel (piano)
January 19, 2013: Gershwin, Gottschalk, MacDowell, Copland, Bernstein, Joplin
Robert Stallman (flute) and Hélène Wickett (piano)
October 26, 2006: Schubert, Hindemith, Doppler, Roussel, Franck
Stanford piano festivals
The Stravinsky Project, March, 2008: Stravinsky
The American Piano Festival, February 3, 2007: Gottschalk, Joplin, Johnson, Morton, Tatum, Rzewski, Cage, Cowell
"A Portrait of Leonard Bernstein"
November 7, 2009: Bernstein
Cappella Romana
May 3, 2009: anonymous Byzantine
Collage Vocal Ensemble
November 8, 2012: Menotti, Rutter, Brahms, Bach, Foster, Mozart, Weelkes, Grainger, Britten, Holst, SOndheim, Kodály, Haydn, Kuula, Vaughan Williams
Golden Gate Festival Orchestra and Temple Emanu-El Choir
July 1, 2008: Bloch
Haydn Singers
March 10, 2006: Mozart, Gasparini, M. Haydn, J. Haydn
The King's Singers
February 17, 2010: Bennet, Schütz, Weelkes, Monteverdi, Frank, Saint-Saëns
Lyric Theatre of San Jose
October 5, 2008: Sullivan
Masterworks Chorale, San Mateo
November 9, 2008: Carlozzi, Schumann, Whitacre, Mozart
New Century Chamber Orchestra and Schola Cantorum San Francisco
December 12, 2008: Handel, Bach, Cristo, Brumel, Buxtehude, Lauridsen, Assad
Opera San José
November 26, 2006: Rossini
Peninsula Symphony and Stanford Symphonic Chorus
November 19, 2010: Gabrieli, Vaughan Williams
November 20, 2009: Reicha, Bach
San Francisco Symphony and Chorus
December 2, 2010: Adams
November 3, 2010: Orff
Santa Cruz County Symphony and Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus
April 22, 2007: Tippett
Stanford Chamber Chorale
January 11, 2013: Berger
Symphony Silicon Valley and SSV Chorale
March 29, 2008: Brahms, Beethoven
Trimpin
May 14, 2011: Trimpin
Volti
November 15, 2009: Winges, Peterson, Fishbein, Zuckerman, Hawley, Moe, Garrop
April 6, 2012: Nielsen
March 27, 2012: Roussel
February 3, 2012: Scarlatti, Currier, Debussy, Liebermann, Schumann
January 20, 2012: Shostakovich