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Beethovens Eroica und Prokofjews Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 machten das spannungsvolle Programm eines reüssierten Abends in der Kölner Philharmonie aus.

Drama, Spaß und Intensität beim Beethovenfest Bonn mit dem Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment und Adam Fischer.

Die Münchner Philharmoniker boten unter Michael Sanderling ein packendes Programm mit Beethoven und Schostakowitsch. Die Symphonie Nr. 13 "Babij Jar" konnte dabei den nachhaltigsten Eindruck hinterlassen.

Mit der Musik Beethovens malte Joshua Bell zusammen mit der Academy of St Martin in the Fields farbenreiche Landschaften und Geschichten in die Vorstellung des Düsseldorfer Publikums.

Kein belangloser Schönklang: Mariss Jansons führt das BRSO in klangliche und emotionale Extreme.

Konzerte mit historischer Aufführungspraxis sind in München selten. Da freut es umso mehr, dass Philippe Herreweghe mit dem Orchestre des Champs-Élysées in der Philharmonie zu Gast ist.

Beethoven und Mozart stehen in der Kirche von Saanen unter Hochspannung.

Murray Perahia erschuf vor dem geistigen Auge des Münchener Publikums zwei großartige und doch ganz unterschiedliche Klanggebäude Beethoven'scher Klavierkonzerte.

Benedikt Zacher berichtet vom Konzert des Münchener Kammerorchesters, das zusammen mit Isabelle Faust mit gewohnt abwechslungsreichen Programm und einer pulsierenden Uraufführung von Fennessys Hirta Rounds aufwartete.

The Austrian conductor's loudest fortes and softest pianos pull together a dramatic arc from the Requiem, other Mozart works and chant. But it's not really a funeral. 

Opening Klosters Music, Enrico Onofri proves that Classical-era music can still work well seen from a later perspective. 

Schubert's Third Symphony is treated like a masterpiece by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under director Isabelle van Keulen. 

Berg's concerto “To the Memory of an Angel” is played with heart-melting beauty; David Afkham and the Orchestre national de Lyon offer pleasant, but unmemorable, Beethoven and Brahms. 

Another all-Beethoven concert? But was this the Singapore Symphony's best in our writer’s 45 years of concert-going?

Entre le concert de l'ensemble Os Músicos do Tejo, la messe mozartienne du dimanche matin, la soirée symphonique en plein air et les concerts de musique de chambre, tous les goûts sont à Marvão !

Si le pianiste a offert une interprétation de haute tenue d'une œuvre (trop) rare, le Belgian National Orchestra et son directeur musical ont malheureusement déçu dans la célèbre Cinquième de Tchaïkovski.

El Festival de Santander recibe a la Chamber Orchestra of Europe y a Daniel Harding, con un programa de intensidad narrativa que dio como resultado una velada musical magnífica.

No ordinary evening at the Concertgebouw, where Lang Lang’s partnership with Andris Nelsons is the perfect vehicle to examine the complexities and contrasts found in the music of Beethoven.

La Mozarteumorchester Salzburg se prestó brillantemente a un concertante estilo para acompañar a Maria João Pires en el Tercer concierto de Beethoven e interpretó una excelente Sinfonía Júpiter de Mozart, todo bajo la dirección de Trevor Pinnock en un concierto para el recuerdo.

Janine Jansen's interpretation of Sibelius' Violin Concerto is a triumph, followed by a powerful reading of Prokofiev's Sixth by Noseda – a thrilling concert to leave the heart racing.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Ryan Bancroft and violinist Anthony Marwood deliver an evening of rapid gear-shifting, punchy momentum, dancing lyricism and mischief at Hoddinott Hall.

Violinist Blake Pouliot, cellist Bryan Cheng, and pianist Angela Hewitt, all previous winners of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal’s Concours, return to perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto.

Malgré un bel Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, le programme Haydn-Beethoven a paru bien monotone voire approximatif sous la direction du célèbre pianiste et chef d'orchestre.

An all-day Beethoven experience European style with both highs and lows: much diversity revealed and exploited but of variable quality.

Présenté par Marina Chiche et adressé plus particulièrement aux aînés de la ville, ce concert mulhousien est une belle réussite, alliant mise en place minutieuse et énergie expressive. 

"Expect the unexpected" is a useful maxim for reviewers. Major last-minute changes to the advertised La Scala programme, with Chen Reiss in Mozart and Zubin Mehta in Beethoven and Schubert.

Parfaitement accompagnés par Lars Vogt et l'Orchestre de chambre de Paris, le père et le fils interprètent une très belle anthologie schubertienne dans un spectacle plus obscur que cohérent.

Baritone Markus Werba shines in six military songs from Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

Yefim Bronfman brings old-school showmanship to the Third Piano Concerto, while Yannick Nézet-Séguin summons the intimacy of a chamber orchestra in the Coriolan overture.

In an all-Beethoven celebration, the London Mozart Players offer a lively rendition of the Coriolan Overture and young Greek-born violinist, Jonian-Ilias Kadesha, performs the Beethoven Violin Concerto with earnest enthusiasm.

In a program originally scheduled for the Musikverein in Vienna, Martin Haselböck and his Orchester Wiener Akademie played Beethoven and Schubert both familiar and curiously obscure. 

The Australian String Quartet joins the West Australian Symphony Orchestra under Ludovic Morlot for an enjoyable and  timely round of Beethoven interleaved with John Adams' homage to the 250-year old composer. 

Violist Ruth Killius did double duty as page turner and violist with violinist husband Zehetmair in knockout Britten.

Jonathan Biss and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra explore Beethoven from two different angles – the early 19th and 21st centuries.

A gloriously romantic performance by Lars Vogt and Royal Northern Sinfonia of Brahms' First Piano Concerto, complemented by Beethoven and Schumann.

A disparate set of pieces are connected to an intriguing theme in mostly successful performances, including Shostakovich from cellist Alisa Weilerstein.

Dans un concert "Super-héros" inégal, le pianiste a montré qu'il était de l'étoffe des plus grands. Retour sur le premier concert 2018 de l'ONDIF à la Philharmonie de Paris.

Soon to be seventy, Murray Perahia and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields give full expression to the life force that is Beethoven, in their continuing cycle of the piano concertos.

Stutzmann displays her customary thoughtfulness and musicianship in Beethoven and Brahms, while violinist Zorman and cellist Elschenbroich deliver a remarkably satisfying Double Concerto. 

Take an overture from the Classical period, add a Romantic concerto and finish with a major work from the 20th century – a tried and proven concoction for a balanced orchestral concert. If these works follow a chronological order and become increasingly longer, so much the better.

Simbiosis ideal entre un conjunto envidiable y una batuta que, lejos de pasar el trámite de hacerse cargo del programa de un colega de profesión, hizo suya la oportunidad y buscó dejar su sello en las interpretaciones de unas obras clave dentro del repertorio sinfónico.

Difficile de trouver association de plus haut standing que celle des Wiener Philharmoniker, du Chant de la Terre et du ténor allemand Jonas Kaufmann, assumant à lui seul les six parties du chef-d’œuvre. Remplaçant Daniele Gatti, le chef anglais Jonathan Nott a cherché à équivoquer la prud’homie du sérail viennois par un violent serrage de ceinture.

Giovanni Antonini conducts the Tonhalle Orchestra in an appealing programme of works by Beethoven, Bach and Vivaldi that marked the Zurich debut of the dynamic Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital.

During the Lucerne Easter Festival, Mariss Jansons conducted the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir in three highly charged works. 

Concert superlatif de Mariss Jansons avec le Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Il y a désormais un avant et un après.

An uninspired evening of classics, that nonetheless showed off the many sides of Shostakovich.

Mixed results in the 20th century portion of the program are remedied with some very fine Beethoven playing. 

Beethoven retrouve l’Elysée, Isabelle Faust parmi les âmes apaisées, peu héroïque, suivant un Herreweghe plus subtil qu’inquiétant.

Sally Matthews comes home to the South of England to give a beautifully delicate and heart-rending performance of Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the BSO.