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Das Houston Symphony Orchestra unter Andrés Orozco-Estrada brillierte mit swingendem Bernstein und dramatischem Dvořák.

Mit viel Elan und Pathos interpretierte die Tschechische Philharmonie Komponisten ihrer Heimat und traten mit Khatia Buniatishvili in Schumanns Klavierkonzert in einen Dialog mit geschmeidigen Fingerspitzengefühl der Solisten. 

Es verwunderte nicht, dass das Orchester selbst seinem Dirigenten fast noch enthusiastischer applaudierte als das Publikum im praktisch ausverkauften Saal.

Das Luzerner Sinfonieorchester bezauberte mit selten gespielten Werken von Respighi und Bloch im KKL.

Das Leben ist kein Wunschkonzert? Stimmt! Zur Eröffnung der Europäischen Wochen aber machten die Pilsener Philharmoniker eine Ausnahme.

Dudamel starts off the inaugural concert in the LA Phil’s Ives symphony cycle. 

Expresivo concierto de Saint-Saëns interpretado por Sol Gabetta y una enérgica Séptima sinfonía de Dvořák dirigida por Jakub Hrůša.

From the podium, Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare’s fine direction and unmitigated athleticism were part and parcel of the excitement.

Two great Hungarians – Iván Fischer and Sir András Schiff – together with the fabulous Budapest Festival Orchestra give a masterclass in musicianship.

Royal Northern Sinfonia and Lars Vogt take us on a joyful dance through central Europe in the company of Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Dvořák.

In the exquisite singing line of the second movement, the appeal was not just in her beauty of tone but in the concentrated feeling Mullova brought to the shaping of each phrase.

La Orquesta de Cadaqués vuelve a Ibermúsica dirigida por David Robertson.

Edward Gardner clearly has a thing for the Czechs. A month after he made his Royal Opera main-stage debut with Janáček's Katya Kabanova, here he was with the Filarmonica della Scala to conduct a strongly Czech programme.

La Sinfónica de Galicia confrontó en su programa una obra de juventud de Brahms, el primer concierto de piano con Leif Ove Andsnes como protagonista, el cual optó por una visión nostálgica, con una tardía e Dvořák en la que se derrochó exuberancia y júbilo.

Frank Peter Zimmermann guía al público del Palacio Euskalduna en un viaje musical a lo largo del continente europeo de la mano de Gaubert, Martinů y Dvorák.

Blomstedt, in splendid form at 91, also paid tribute to his largely forgotten compatriot Franz Berwald, who died 150 years ago.

Stutzmann and NSO deliver a compelling vision of Dvořák's Seventh while violinist Eberle and violist Grosz achieve a fine balance in Mozart's iconic Sinfonia Concertante.

Paolo Bortolameolli leads the LA Phil in a programme mixing the familiar with the obscure. 

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.

Pavel Kolesnikov was at the heart and soul of a disappointing concert by the touring Czech orchestra.

La escala madrileña de la gira comandada por Perianes y Heras-Casado auspició una iluminación polisémica. No se trató únicamente de redescubrir y pensar las “zonas oscuras” de la historiografía musical, sino que también, y en ello radica lo primordial, el ejercicio constituyó un fin en sí mismo.

The Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich recently nestled a performance by the gifted American violinist Hilary Hahn into its programme of works by Janáček, Prokofiev and Dvořák.

In performing the three late masterpieces by Dvořák, Järvi found different ways to triumph. 

Paavo Järvi finds a bracing approach to Dvořák with the Philharmonia in Bedford. 

Séduisant rapprochement de styles divergents, mais surtout de timbres inaccoutumés, ce choix d’œuvres audacieux met à l’honneur des instruments aussi inhabituels que le basson ou le cor, brouille les harmonies familières.

The Ulster Orchestra and Rosanne Philippens dazzle in Vaughan Williams and Sibelius under the baton of Jac van Steen.

A superstar soloist helps the Toronto Symphony Orchestra offer a telling tribute to Czech conductor Karel Ančerl.

Alisa Weilerstein teams up with Pablo Heras-Casado and the SFS to deliver superb Schumann at the Davies Symphony Hall. 

In the first of two successive Proms appearances, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales gave solid performances of two popular scores from the central European repertoire. Malcolm Hayes’s new work, however, proved to be the highlight of the evening. 

The Hallé’s end-of-season Dvořák festival continued with the Seventh Symphony, Cello Concerto and Slavonic Dance no. 2 from the Op.72 set. 

Berwald’s quirky Third Symphony opened the concert before a beautifully judged performance of Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony.

Alisa Weilerstein's intense, intimate, personal rendering of the Elgar Cello Concerto is the highlight of an otherwise lacklustre concert from Pablo Heras-Casado and the LSO.

Nicolaj Znaider proves a better conductor than soloist with the OSM in programme of works by Mozart, Smetana and Dvořák. 

Marin Alsop made belated subscription debut with the CSO Thanksgiving weekend with a varied program contrasting 20th and 21st century British and American works with Dvořák's tragic Seventh Symphony.

Lyon touché par un musicien d’exception : Menahem Pressler en concert à l’Auditorium

Waiting for sunrise while listening to the Orchestra Filarmonica La Fenice, brilliantly conducted by Alvise Casellati, created an emotional effect in the audience

Standing in for an unwell Andris Nelsons, Birmingham-born Alpesh Chauhan proved a satisfying substitution for a capacity audience at Symphony Hall.

Picking up where his Czech predecessors left off, Vasily Petrenko led the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in a satisfying close to this year's festival.

Steve Mackey's Violin Concerto entitled Beautiful Passing was the highlight in this Sydney Symphony concert which also explored popular Czech repertoire. 

Klaus Florian Vogt, l'un des grands ténors wagnériens actuels a interprété avec brio au Théâtre des Champs Elysées Parsifal et surtout Lohengrin. Il était magnifiquement soutenu par Andris Nelsons avec le City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, qui ont aussi illuminé Dvorak.

Khachaturian’s innate gift for melody and Dvořák’s penchant for grandeur and drama led to an evening of sumptuous and exciting music-making from the BSO. 

A lively program with soloist Martin Fröst, in his HS debut, leaving a deep impression in Copland.

After a slightly disjoined start, the RPO delivered an ultimately satisfying concert with distinctive and involing intepretations of two Romantic warhorses. 

Ludovic Morlot's fourth season with the Seattle Symphony launches with a mini-Dvořák festival, some plush Wagner, and an ear-opening take on a Tchaikovsky warhorse featuring pianist Daniil Trifonov in his SSO debut.

With so much focus - understandably - on London's concerts during the Proms season, it is a delight to be able to listen to and attend various other related performances across the UK. 

James Levine and the Met Orchestra travel a few blocks south to Carnegie Hall, to perform a program of works by Antonin Dvořák.

On walking into the foyer of Colston Hall, I was greeted by the sound of a jazz band playing The Girl from Ipanema. This was not quite what I expected from the Colston Hall’s “Symphony Project”, but nevertheless a tasteful and welcoming opening, that created a cheerful atmosphere.

There can be few openings which get as briskly down to business as Britten’s 1946 The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. Peter Oundjian and the RSNO exploded into the minor-key Rondeau, which Britten had borrowed from Purcell’s 1695 Abdelazer Z. 750.

Peter Oundjian chose to open his tenth season as Music Director of the Toronto Symphony with a work he characterized as “ebullient”, and, truth be told, under Maestro Oundjian’s baton, it bubbled like a glass of champagne.Britten’s Variations and Fugue on a theme by Purcell (1946), a.k.a.