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Opulent Strauss and Ravel open Milwaukee Symphony season
Ken-David Masur opens his final season in Milwaukee with Ravel’s one-handed wonder and Strauss’ musical autobiography.
A satisfying melange of Classic and Caribbean with the Toronto SO
Kristiina Poska makes a successful Toronto debut with solid Beethoven and some spicy Caribbean fireworks from Stewart Goodyear.
Audacious and radical: the CBSO explores 20th-century American music
A powerful enthusiasm for ideas links highly contrasting works by Ives, Gershwin, Zappa and George Lewis, in a thrilling evening conducted by Ilan Volkov.
In New York, Gemma New makes “Mostly Mozart” mostly magic
Gemma New makes a positive impressive in the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra's lively rendition of the “Prague” Symphony.
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra plays Tchaikovsky, Enescu and Hailstork
A well-known rhapsody and symphony bracket Adolphus Hailstork's 1992 Piano Concerto in an all-around convincing performance featuring exciting soloist Stewart Goodyear.
St Louis Symphony in a dazzling performance of Adès, Shostakovich and Rimsky-Korsakov
There is more common than meets the eye to the three works on the programme by the St Louis Symphony Orchestra in the Powell Hall on Saturday night. The rhythmic diversity in each challenges the unity of the orchestra to the extreme.