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Zusammen mit Julia Fischer und Augustin Hadelich gestaltete die Academy ein himmlisches Musikvergnügen.

Delightful Dvořák and ravishing Vaughan Williams headline the London Mozart Players’ ‘Flights of Fancy’ concert at St Martin's-in-the-Fields. 

Janine Jansen’s exquisite reading of Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto leaves the Belgian audience on a high.

Lorenzo Viotti conducts a programme of familiar favourites including a speedy Prokofiev “Classical” Symphony. 

Excellent chamber orchestras are a true pleasure to behold. The Wiener Virtuosen were in their element in an evening of Mozart, Mahler and Dvořák. 

Dvořák is diminished in the wake of Bartók’s experimental zeal and Strauss’ fearless convolutions.

The Northern Chamber Orchestra made a strong case for Haydn's Symphony No 21 and Ben Hudson gave a fine performance of Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in a historic Cheshire venue.

The RSNO and Conductor Laureate Neeme Järvi attracted a very large audience for Friday’s concert in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh. The vigorous applause welcoming Järvi to the rostrum suggested that it was the conductor himself who had drawn in the crowds as much as the repertoire, which was to cover Dvořák's Serenade for Strings and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad).

Outside St Ninian's Cathedral in Perth it was minus 8 deg C, and pavements round about were extremely difficult to use due to thick uneven layers of ice.

Scottish Ensemble’s annual Candlelit Concerts have become a favourite festive treat across Scotland, performing “Christmas with a Twist”: no tired Nutcracker or Swan Lake here! This year’s Czech celebration was no different, offering a little-played Nocturne in B major by Dvořák, Janáček’s Kreutzer Sonata and Dvořák’s famous Serenade for Strings, with a surprise addition of Czech violinist and com