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
Items in italics are currently broken links, eventually to be fixed after the publisher gets their archives' act together.
"Reactions to the Record", reports on Stanford historical performances symposia. April 2007. Letters and reply. January 2009.
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
Classical recordings for folks who don't listen to much classical, December 2006
Shostakovich At His Centenary, Part One and Part Two
San Jose's Rising Star - portrait of classical music in San Jose, CA, May 2006
Symphony Orchestra of the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory
November 17, 2009: Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Raimkulova, Bernstein
Cadenza (Santa Cruz Chamber Orchestra)
October 24, 2009: Honegger, Vasks, Shostakovich
October 11, 2008: Sibelius, Vasks, Dvorák
St. Peter's Chamber Orchestra
October 10, 2009: Beethoven, Schubert
New Century Chamber Orchestra
September 11, 2009: Bach, Mussorgsky
December 12, 2008: Handel, Bach, Cristo, Brumel, Buxtehude, Lauridsen, Assad
Symphony Silicon Valley
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
Peninsula Symphony
May 15, 2009: Tchaikovsky, Bruch, Orff
Redwood Symphony
April 4, 2009: Bartók, Khachaturian, Janácek (Preview)
April 6, 2008: Lutoslawski, Mahler
June 10, 2007: Dvorák, Bartók, Copland
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
February 7, 2009: J.C. Bach, Festinger, Mahler, Copland
January 1, 2009: Handel, Mozart, Coleman, Haydn, Gershwin
Cabrillo Festival Orchestra
August 2, 2008: Chang, Bates, Corigliano
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
Other Minds
November 12, 2009: Cowell
Menlo Festival
July 31, 2009: Mendelssohn
July 24, 2009: Beethoven, Mendelssohn
July 28, 2008: Dvorák, Wolf, Brahms, Schumann
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
St. Lawrence Quartet
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
Paris Piano Trio
November 2, 2008: Fauré, Schumann, Mendelssohn
Emerson Quartet
October 15, 2008: Shostakovich
January 13, 2006: Nielsen, Sibelius, Grieg
Escher Quartet
September 28, 2008: Mozart, Zemlinsky, Shostakovich, Beethoven
Carmel Bach Festival
July 24, 2008: Bach
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
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
Peninsula Symphony and Stanford Symphonic Chorus
November 20, 2009: Reicha, Bach
Volti
November 15, 2009: Winges, Peterson, Fishbein, Zuckerman, Hawley, Moe, Garrop
Judy Kaye and William Sharp
November 7, 2009: Bernstein
Cappella Romana
May 3, 2009: anonymous Byzantine
New Century Chamber Orchestra and Schola Cantorum San Francisco
December 12, 2008: Handel, Bach, Cristo, Brumel, Buxtehude, Lauridsen, Assad
Masterworks Chorale, San Mateo
November 9, 2008: Carlozzi, Schumann, Whitacre, Mozart
Lyric Theatre of San Jose
October 5, 2008: Sullivan
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