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Mangelde Kooperation des Solisten und ein Orchester, das an seine Grenzen stößt, lassen hoffen, dass diese Aufführung die am folgenden Tag in Genf vorbereiten half.

Trio de Ravel et Concerto de Schumann avec Lucas Debargue, double récital de Beatrice Berrut et Florian Noack, Concerto n° 2 de Brahms avec Jonathan Fournel : retour sur un festival à la programmation riche et variée.

Daniele Rustioni conducts a programme of orchestral favourites and a concerto rarity featuring cellist Alban Gerhardt.

El director británico Rumon Gamba se sube al podio del Coliseum de La Coruña para ofrecer junto a la Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia obras de carácter danzable de Borodin y Rachamninov y una estimulante interpretación de Alén de Soutullo.

Shelley and the RPO make sense of Shostakovich with lush Glazunov, tight Borodin and dazzling Prokofiev with Kian Soltani.

The BBC NOW gave us two hearty Russian works and celebrated the lunar landing with a world premiere of Huw Watkins' The Moon.

A potentially stimulating mix of full-bloodied Russian orchestral writing not fully realised by the RPO and Alpesh Chauhan, but with a promising concerto debut by Diana Adamyan.

De très belles nuances, un son chaud, et surtout une interprétation réfléchie : dirigé par Tugan Sokhiev, le Bolchoï sublime Rachmaninov et Borodine à la Philharmonie.

Le duo Ludmila Berlinskaia – Arthur Ancelle a proposé un fastueux programme de compositions et d'arrangements pour deux pianos au festival Liszt en Provence.

Ravel and Prokofiev offer divergent views on the piano left-hand concerto, but fine performances ensure satisfying contrast.

À tous les mélomanes qui se plaignent de toujours entendre les mêmes œuvres poncives en récital, il faudrait souffler très fort : Florian Noack. Car avec quelle joie gourmande on a écouté vendredi dernier le jeune pianiste belge dans ses propres transcriptions ! 

The hometown Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá (OFB) proves big-league as they launch the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo's Bogotá es la Rusia Romántica.

L’Orchestre Métropolitain, son chœur affilié et trois chanteurs solistes livraient dimanche dernier un concert intitulé « Yannick Nézet-Séguin et l’âme russe », sous la baguette du chef éponyme. Si l’on tient compte de la flamboyance du jeu, de la clarté des tableaux, du chatoiement des couleurs orchestrales, ce n’est pas l’âme russe qui a été révélée cet après-midi-là, mais bien plutôt celle du chef d’orchestre.

Charles Dutoit, still sporting his trademark slick of black hair and a 79-year-old whirlwind of francophone charisma, clearly brings this band's playing to a new level, especially when the repertoire happens to be French and Russian music of the 20th century.

The 2016 Proms come to a riotous close at the Royal Albert Hall.

As Birmingham-born Alpesh Chauhan builds his reputation towards becoming a conductor much in demand, so the CBSO finds itself in the fortunate position of securing the services of Mirga Gražytė-Tyla as Andris Nelsons’ successor as Music Director, with a chance to grow Chauhan as Assistant Conductor.

La OFCM nos ofreció un interesante programa de grandes orquestadores: Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Ravel y Mahler.

To celebrate its 50th birthday Dutch National Opera put on a festive tribute to the people that have made it the innovative and much-admired house it is today.

In a quirky programme featuring English, Welsh and Russian music the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales began their new season at St David’s Hall showcasing, with mixed results, their composer-in-association Huw Watkins, Elgar and three Russian composers at different stages in their careers.

Troisième gala d’ouverture de la Philharmonie de Paris : les masses éclatantes de Borodine, Tchaïkovski et Stravinsky livrent un nouvel aspect de l'acoustique de la salle — chatoyant bien que parfois déséquilibré.

Miloš Karadaglić plays his debut at Colston Hall with Brussels Philharmonic under Michel Tabachnik. 

One hundred years after the première performance of Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring, perhaps one of the most controversial and infamous stage premières of all time, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Barbican Centre’s Total Immersion collaboration provided an all-round look at every aspect of the music, choreography and the première itself through a variety of events on Sunday, culminating

Prom 30 saw the return of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under its Conductor Laureate Gianandrea Noseda with a Russian-themed programme. Prokofiev, Borodin and Tchaikovsky were played alongside Edward Cowie’s BBC commission and world première Earth Music I – The Great Barrier Reef.The Borodin overture and Polovtsian dances from Prince Igor served as an energy-injection to the start of the evening.

It is not often you can say that the conductor’s outfit was as ornate and charming as the billed programme, but the entrance of a silver-coated Grzegorz Nowak proved that even a conductor’s first bow can be the perfect aesthetic prelude to an evening of similarly silvery, charming music.

Sitting in the seats at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts auditorium in Astoria, the boisterous, catchy tunes of Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to West Side Story rang out. Crisp, clean, and excitedly performed, it was a great start to an evening of what Maestro Silas Nathaniel Huff called ‘Riffs and Dances’.

I had high expectations for the evening after being very impressed with an MSSO performance I had seen as a teenager. The first piece on the programme was the Polovtsian Dances from Borodin’s opera, Prince Igor. The performance highlighted both the playful and brutal elements of the piece which made for an exciting performance.