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Jonathan Bloxham dirigiert einen trostvollen Musikgenuss, der die Nachteile eines gestreamten Konzerts über lange Strecken vergessen ließ.

Giancarlo Guerrero, al frente de la Sinfónica de Galicia, ofreció un programa lleno de sensualidad y lirismo que resolvió en una velada de intensa belleza.

Gustavo Gimeno conducts The Cleveland Orchestra in works by Ravel and Franck, along with a recent Bryce Dessner concerto featuring the Labèque sisters.

A fantasy evening in Belle Époque Paris all the way from London's Southbank! 

Ravel and Pintscher's own music were juxtaposed on this programme from Amsterdam. 

Robert Spano and Kelley O'Connor produce a gossamer Shéhérazade in Atlanta.

A trio of French works launch the English Chamber Orchestra's Sunday afternoon series, filmed in Beckenham Place Mansion.

Clarity and colour from Alexandre Bloch and the Orchestre National de Lille in Debussy and Ravel, with an elegant and majestic Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto from Eric Lu.

Sous la baguette d'un de ses chefs favoris et en compagnie d'Anne Sofie von Otter, l'Orchestre des Champs-Élysées fait étape avenue Montaigne au début d'une tournée 100% Ravel.

Tired of looking at the same wallpaper all the time? The London Philharmonic and their conductor Edward Gardner, together with soloist Stephen Hough, offer one way to see (part of) the world.

The audience responded as if they were hearing the Symphony for the first time. They were overwhelmed and let the musicians know it. Good start to the home stand.

A triumphant night for the CBSO, Harish Shankar and Boris Giltburg, with the mighty Saint-Saëns’ “Organ Symphony” and an inspired performance of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto no. 3.

Jean-Yves Thibaudet was the soloist for a stylish account of Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the left hand, and the complete music for Daphnis et Chloé filled out the program.

A programme in which a great orchestra finds several 'leaders', as well as a fine first violin.

“Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin.” Storytime with the Aurora Orchestra proved a delight. 

El concierto que la Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra ofreció el pasado viernes sumergió al público del Baluarte en un paseo virtual, lleno de luz y de vida, por las vanguardias musicales de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Lo hizo de la mano de Antoni Wit y del virtuoso Xavier de Maistre, descubriéndonos así también los mil y un registros sonoros del arpa.

Prom 22 was a surreal evening of music, centered around the UK première of Auerbach’s The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie.

Orchestral fairy tales and a Rachmaninov concerto make for satisfying fare at Symphony Hall, Birmingham.  

L'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France très en forme en cette rentrée comme en témoigne ce concert avec Vasily Petrenko à la direction et le pianiste Behzod Abduraimov. Un plaisir pour le spectateur.

Whimsical program of French symphonic and operatic works opens the CSO's "French Reveries and Passions" festival.

Kees Bakels and the Orchestra of Opera North perform Gershwin, Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky at Leeds Town Hall.

Katia et Marielle, les sœurs pianistes, avec l'assistance du trio de musiciens basques Kalakan, nous donnent des mélodies, des rythmes et des couleurs d’horizons variés. C'est un concert étonnamment homogène malgré un programme éclectique.

Mixed fare that Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra and conductor Christopher Warren-Green, with Nelson Freire's performance the highlight. 

My big night out this week was spent at the New York Philharmonic’s Tuesday evening concert, surely the case for most other 23-year-olds. (I kid, and yet over the past couple of years I have noticed a decided increase in young faces at Avery Fisher Hall.) I had intended to sit anonymously in the audience and get swept into the music like a leaf in the autumn wind.

In An Attitude to French Culture the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski remarked “I am aware that of the two traditions that initiated 20th-century music, that is, Schoenberg and Debussy, it is the latter that I feel prevails in my own compositional work”.

Montreal’s favourite musical son has become something of a world favourite in recent years. The Music Director of both the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin is also Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Principal Conductor of his native city’s Orchestre Métropolitain.

The memory has dimmed somewhat in the past few years. But it remains firmly entrenched in my mind. I wish I could say that this moment was a formative one in my development as musicologist; that destiny took hold of this young boy and led him to the path of his eventual vocation. But no such thing happened.

Classical music is often portayed as being very serious, which is part of what makes it seem inaccessible at times. But this is a mistake: there are plenty of pieces that are, in a word, fun.

Many Hong Kong Philharmonic concerts in the 2011-2012 season have descriptions attached to them. The one for Friday was “Story Time.” The stories of the first and last works on the programme, Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov were clear enough; though that of the Mozart Piano Concerto no. 9 in E flat, K271, was a little more obscure.

The holiday season in New York can be a bit maddening, an unrelenting assault to the senses amid the crush of humanity present throughout the city. Luckily, then, the Philharmonic provided an evening’s respite with powerful and largely understated works by Haydn, Schubert, and Ravel. After Haydn’s Symphony no.

When recession strikes, Stravinsky’s your man! Nothing is wasted and everything is convertible. The fact that his world and style had changed beyond recognition between beginning his opera, Le Chant du Rossignol in 1908 and finishing it in 1914 – three epoch-changing ballets later – did not seem to faze him.

Performing works by Maurice Ravel and Hector Berlioz Wednesday night, the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), conducted by Yannik Nézet-Séguin with guest soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci, captivated audiences with both charming, childlike prose and chilling orchestral music.