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
Symphony Orchestra 2.0 - music in San Jose, CA, June 2008
Eight is Enough - listing and commentary on the "Symphony No. 8" by 24 different composers
History's Mysteries - report on the Stanford historical performances symposium, April 2007. Letters and reply
Shostakovich At His Centenary, Part One and Part Two
San Jose's Rising Star - portrait of classical music in San Jose, CA, May 2006
Redwood Symphony
April 6, 2008: Lutoslawski, Mahler
June 10, 2007: Dvorák, Bartók, Copland
Symphony Silicon Valley
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
Russian National Orchestra
February 14, 2008: Schubert, Safronov, Brahms
March 26, 2006: Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
January 27, 2008: Debussy, Berlioz
San Francisco Symphony
June 17, 2007: Prokofiev. addendum
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
Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra
December 16, 2006: Fish, Spohr, Beethoven
Oakland East Bay Symphony
April 21, 2006: Mozart, Ravel, Stenhammar
January 20, 2006: Puts, Mozart, Brahms
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
October 21, 2005: Boccherini, Arriaga
St. Lawrence Quartet
October 14, 2007: Haydn, Beethoven, Adams
December 3, 2006: Dohnányi, Shostakovich, Dvorák (with Jon Kimura Parker)
Menlo Festival
August 9, 2007: Beethoven, Copland, Neikrug, Ravel, Brahms
July 23, 2007: Schnittke, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky
August 10, 2006: Bach, Messiaen, Mozart
August 3 & 7, 2005: Beethoven
July 30, 2005: Beethoven
Del Sol Quartet
November 9, 2006: Blitzstein, Body, Lindsay, Vali
Alexander Quartet
September 24 & 25, 2006: Shostakovich (with Roger Woodward)
Claremont Trio
April 5, 2006: Haydn, Kirchner, Schumann
Takács Quartet
March 12, 2006: Beethoven
Emerson Quartet
January 13, 2006: Nielsen, Sibelius, Grieg
San Francisco Symphony Chamber Musicians
October 30, 2005: Mozart, Rossini, Villa-Lobos, Dvorák
Prazak Quartet
March 13, 2005: Smetana, Janácek, Dvorák
Vilnius Quartet
November 7, 2004: Schubert, Prokofiev, Beethoven
Stanford piano festivals
The Stravinsky Project, March, 2008: Stravinsky
The American Piano Festival, February 3, 2007: Gottschalk, Joplin, Johnson, Morton, Tatum, Rzewski, Cage, Cowell
Robert Stallman (flute) and Hélène Wickett (piano)
October 26, 2006: Schubert, Hindemith, Doppler, Roussel, Franck
Frederic Chiu (piano)
May 14, 2006: Bach-Busoni, Schubert-Liszt, Prokofiev-Chiu, Beethoven-Liszt
Chee-Yun (violin) and Wendy Chen (piano)
May 7, 2006: Vitali, de Falla, Fauré, Strauss, Sarasate
Steven Isserlis (cello) and Stephen Hough (piano)
April 15, 2005: Brahms, Hummel, Suk, Martinu
Golden Gate Festival Orchestra and Temple Emanu-El Choir
July 1, 2008: Bloch
Symphony Silicon Valley and SSV Chorale
March 29, 2008: Brahms, Beethoven
Santa Cruz County Symphony and Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus
April 22, 2007: Tippett
Opera San José
November 26, 2006: Rossini
Haydn Singers
March 10, 2006: Mozart, Gasparini, M. Haydn, J. Haydn