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Die Starsängerin Magdalena Kožená und das La Cetra Barockorchester unter Andrea Marcon sorgten im neobarocken Stadttheater für Festspiel-Feeling.

McFaddens ergreifend schöne Melodieführung und Melnikovs schimmernde Klavierfarben machten den Konzertabend zu einem unvergesslichen Hörerlebnis.

Matthias Pintscher dirigiert ein mitreißendes Sinnenspektakel, das dem Publikum den Atem raubt.

Jonathan Nott leitet souverän durch Mahler und Berio mit Antoine Tamestit als Solo-Bratschist.

Die Münchner Philharmoniker interpretieren unter der Leitung von Semyon Bychkov ein vielfältiges Programm mit experimentellen Klängen. 

Strings, ein spannendes neues Programm in Zürich, zeigt Werke dreier renommierter Choreographen und die Demokratisierung des Balletts.

In the first of two concerts at the BBC Proms, Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra give a thrilling performance of Mahler's Fifth Symphony and a glowing exposition of Berio's Rendering. 

Adams, Rachmaninov and Berio are not three easy bedfellows, however Kazuki Yamada and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra pull these strands together remarkably. 

The London Sinfonietta blends premieres and poetry in a confusing evening at the Southbank Centre. 

La Filarmonica della Scala cerró su gira en Madrid de la mano de Ibermúsica y, bajo la batuta de Lorenzo Viotti, descargaron teatralidad y exuberancia a partes iguales.

Habité par son personnage, la violoniste, chanteuse, compositrice et comédienne livre une performance de premier choix avec des partenaires au diapason.

Yuja Wang returns to David Hockney’s Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) installation at London's Lightroom for a truly immersive recital. 

Pour son premier récital en France, la jeune Américaine a proposé un programme très intelligemment construit et interprété, de Mozart à Beethoven en passant par les Impromptus de Chopin entrecoupés de courtes pièces.

Dans un one woman show décapant qui alterne pièces de musique contemporaine, sketchs comico-réflexifs et moments participatifs, la soprano suscite autant de rires que d'admiration.

Schoenberg's modernist masterpiece gets lost in a fog of words and feral newsprint at the Southbank Centre's Purcell Room. 

A new work by Clarice Assad, featuring Principal Bassoon Daniel Matsukawa and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, comes sandwiched between impish Berio and complex Rachmaninov.

Malgré l'annulation de dernière minute d'un musicien souffrant, les artistes du Rosendal Chamber Music Festival ont livré un programme bouleversant de bout en bout.

The conductor directs the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Theatres of Voices in contrasting symphonies by Berio and Stravinsky.

In a week when the New York Phil announced Gustavo Dudamel as its next Music Director, a former candidate rekindles “what if?” thoughts. 

Pour le plus grand bonheur du public, l'Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranée se réunit de nouveau au Grand Théâtre de Provence après une session 2020 complètement à distance.

Listening to arrangements of Bach is like Dostoevsky’s challenge not to think about polar bears. It’s best to put the Bach out of your thoughts, even if “the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.”

The concert paired strong new works by Joan La Barbara, Nicole Lizée and Paola Prestini with compositions by Luciano Berio and George Crumb for a satisfying evening of adventurous works for voice.

The Czech Phil's woodwind are in superb form for a particularly optimistic concert featuring Berio's mercurial Rendering to give us a double dose of Schubert's unfinished symphonic work.

In a world for which Neharo't Neharo't had suddenly become painfully relevant once again: the man lamenting his love in the gentle ending could have been lamenting the Kurds.

Profound musical expression shrinks against the majesty of the setting, but ends up all the more profound, in the summer chamber music series.

À Saint-Denis, le Mahler Chamber Orchestra propose des miniatures convaincantes de Mahler ou Berio. Clou du spectacle, une Eva Zaïcik royale, qui illumine tout autant les Kindertotenlieder que les Folksongs.

Une « Nuit du Piano » mémorable est venue couronner le week-end de clôture du Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, avec trois pianistes passionnantes : Aline Piboule, Beatrice Berrut et Claire Désert.

Marianne Crebassa and Esa-Pekka Salonen take the audience on a dazzling musical journey from Rome to Asia.

An evening of Schubert in Washington DC, ending with Luciano Berio's "restoration" job, Rendering. 

Thrilling and spellbinding experimental music for harpsichord and electronics, performed by Mahan Esfahani. 

Semyon Bychkov’s Prom appearances are always fascinating experiences and this was no different, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tremendous form. 

Retour sur le concert des lauréats au Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, avec les pianistes Maroussia Genet, Hyeonjun Jo et Miharu Ogura.

Proposer un programme composé exclusivement de compositions des XXème et XXIème siècles a de quoi faire mentir ceux qui réduiraient volontiers la musique savante à son seul classicisme.

D'Orazio proved in a program that included Berio's Sequenza VIII why he is a leading exponent of contemporary violin composition.

Vasily Petrenko conducts a darkly coloured Alpensinfonie in Liverpool, alongside music by Tchaikovsky and Canteloube

A fascinating recital from Hélène Grimaud at the Barbican balanced a first half sequence exploring works with an aquatic theme against some monumental Brahms. 

Markus Stenz conducts the Hallé in Mahler's First Symphony, with Simone Lamsma playing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.

Helene Grimaud's recital inside Disney Hall mucially captures and captivates nature's terrene elements with a balance of aqueous colouring and deeply grounded terra firma.

Ballet BC expands its vocabulary and tests its toes in new conversations.   

Mariss Jansons' festive, but poignant, farewell concert with the Royal Concergebouw Orchestra. Thomas Hampson contrasted folksongs by Mahler with Berio and Copland. Afterwards, while Jansons conducted Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.

Hélène Grimaud nous offre un programme dont l’unité réside dans le thème de l’eau, ainsi que la puissante Sonate No.2 de Brahms.

Artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud literally flooded the Park Avenue Armory with tears become… streams become… 

We’ve already reached the penultimate week at the BBC Proms and Air Miles are clocking up apace with orchestras visiting from far afield. This evening saw the Singapore Symphony make its Proms debut, bringing in its hand-luggage a European première of a work by Chinese composer Zhou Long.

One Prom + two oddball 20th century symphonies = a strangely satisfying experience, especially when in the hands of a youth orchestra, evidently open to the technical challenges and quirkiness of this relatively rare concert material.

Marino Formenti only briefly introduced his eclectic whirlwind recital, “Liszt Inspections”, before calling out “Good luck!” and diving into one of the most attention-grabbing sequences of music that I’ve ever witnessed.

Ensemble ACJW performed works by Berio, Reich, and Bartók with conductor David Robertson and soprano Dawn Upshaw at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall. This attractively programmed concert featured an admirable first half, though the Bartók left something to be desired.

On Friday, 25 October, the São Paulo Symphony presented an energetic and polished performance at the Southbank Centre. Part of the “The Rest is Noise Festival” focused on 20th century music, this programme took the turbulent 1960s as its theme.

Unusually for a classical concert, the Queen's Hall was decked out with cabaret tables. Seated at the front I had a unique perspective on audio elements such as blend and separation of instruments and such visual elements as musicians' cues (varying from direct eye contact to trusting peripheral vision) and the normally overlooked feature of footwork.Herbert Howells 1921 Rhapsodic Quintet Op.