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Extrem kontrastreich war das Konzert unter Lahav Shani in Baden-Baden. Mit dem virtuosen koreanischen Pianisten Seong-Jin Cho spielte es ein quirliges Klavierkonzert von Maurice Ravel und eine tieftraurige Pathétique.

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a nod to #America250 and Yunchan Lim plays Ravel's jazzy Piano Concerto in G. 

Pour leur première au nouveau festival de la Philharmonie, l'orchestre maison et le chef finlandais ont échoué à retranscrire toute la diversité expressive d'un programme pourtant séduisant sur le papier.

La Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife demostró una vez más su camaleónica capacidad con un variado programa y la dirección de la batuta invitada, Rebecca Tong.

Diferentes líneas melódicas condujeron un discurso antibelicista, en búsqueda de una comunidad intercultural a través de Bernstein, Copland o Jenkins.

El trompetista venezolano Pacho Flores maravilló en su triple faceta de compositor, director e intérprete junto al conjunto de metales de la Filarmónica de Bogotá. 

Un concert dont la diversité des genres musicaux inscrits au programme est assez stupéfiante, de Haydn et Beethoven à Queen.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra provided a formidable performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony under Marin Alsop, with Renaud Capuçon bringing warmth and joie de vivre to Mendelssohn.

Asier Polo dio una clase magistral de sensibilidad, exhibiendo un rango dinámico y tímbrico excepcional y dando vida a las disonantes armonías de la pieza con una lucidez y musicalidad de la que pocos violonchelistas de la actualidad pueden presumir.

On this Montréal concert, visiting conductor Cristian Măcelaru presented Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs to mark the 70th anniversary of World War II

Both new works by Michael Williams and James Ledger rose to the challenge of marking Anzac Day admirably with personal and intense responses to the tragedy of war.

Five years on from her historic appointment as the first woman to head a major American orchestra, Marin Alsop took to the stage of Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley Friday night with a swagger, leading the impressive Baltimore Symphony, the orchestra with whom she has made her mark as one of the world’s leading conductors.

For its centenary concert – given on 11th September 2011, in Cheltenham, and at Poole Lighthouse on Tuesday 13th September – Bournemouth Symphony Chorus paid tribute to those who fell victim to the catastrophic act of terrorism that shook the world ten years before.

The programme read a little like a musical version of Kim's Game: not one but two full-scale symphonies, the same number of prefatory pieces, and then a piano concerto to boot: a test for the audience as well as the orchestra. The principal connexion between the works – apart from their contemporaneity – was the celebrated conductor, Serge Koussevitsky.