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Măcelaru's eclectic programming elicits passionate performances from the Orchestre National de France, and Randall Goosby shows his versatility with elegant and impassioned artistry. 

In a concert taking in music of the Belle Époque and beyond, Dame Sarah Connolly joins the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Chausson’s Poème de l’amour de la mer.

One of the Lammermuir Festival's miniature miracles: Véronique Gens and Joseph Middleton present an evening of French chansons in the East Lothian countryside. 

Karina Canellakis conducts a Franco-Prussian program featuring Beethoven and Brahms in the first half, Chausson and Ravel in the second. 

Joshua Bell brings virtuosic fireworks and generous tone to works by Chausson and Vieuxtemps, while Christoph Eschenbach delivers a Brahms 1 devoid of fresh insight.

Duncan Ward leads a varied programme from Bartók and Janáček to Chausson, closing with a benchmark performance of La Mer. 

Vilde Frang and Bertrand Chamayou join the Belcea Quartet for a musical feast including Chausson's sumptuous Concert. 

A lunchtime concert with principal players from the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Dinis Sousa offers a delectable treat. 

Violin dealers J & A Beare celebrate its 130th anniversary in lavish style by bringing together eight of the Cremona luthier’s exceptional instruments for a concert directed by Dutch violinist, Janine Jansen. 

Fabien Gabel and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra bring Stravinsky's puppets to vivid life, while violinist Karen Gomyo delivers passion and pathos in Chausson's Poème.

From the tragically short-lived Guillaume Lekeu to Ernest Chausson's big-boned Concert via Debussy's sole string quartet, a tremendous evening at Wigmore Hall. 

Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninov may be bread-and-butter repertoire for pianist Nikolai Lugansky and conductor Tugan Sokhiev, but the stellar presentation at this Berlin Philharmonic concert was Chausson's Symphony in B flat major.

David Grimal captures the rhapsodic nature of Chausson and Ravel's scores, but how well does the conductor-less approach work in non-concertante scores? 

The first fully staged American production of Chausson's sole opera features remarkable singing, fine storytelling and plush orchestral playing.

Song cycles by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ernest Chausson are paired at the Barbican.

Violinist Anna Tifu and the Tekfen Philharmonic join together for a richly played Poème before Aziz Shokhakimov conducts Brahms' First Symphony.

An evening of “French Beauties and Swedish Beasts” from the Swedish clarinettist, demonstrating phenomenal tone and dare-devil risk-taking. 

In music by Janaček and Dvořák, Kožená seemed to just enjoy the freedom to perform in her native idiom. 

What a day to hear an all-French programme, and with this fragile moment at its heart criticism feels futile, disrespectful even.

A chamber version of Chopin is outshone by Chausson's compositional ingenuity.

Nézet-Séguin leads Philadelphians and Joyce DiDonato in superb performances of Wagner, Bates, Chausson and Respighi.

Here was singing and playing to live long in the memory.

Mary Bevan’s bewitching soprano is the star of a glorious programme of music by Ravel and his contemporaries.

In the last week, the LPO has been on a journey through the seasons. Tonight, it was mists and mellow fruitfulness, courtesy of rarities by Respighi and Marx.

Space-Age Ballet Frontier premiered to honour JFK. 

Soprano Elizabeth Watts brought tonal richness and energy to an evening of French song with texts by Théophile Gautier, but her expressive arsenal was diminished by a bout of flu.

The Garth Newel Piano Quartet presented a "French Feast" of delectable chamber works by Ravel, Chausson and Florent Schmitt that was a gastronomical as well as musical triumph.

Mezzo-soprano Marie-Nicole Lemieux made her Cleveland Orchestra debut in a passionate performance of Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer.

Paris in the springtime: cold winds, driving rain and even a flurry of snow. Tonight, courtesy of Debussy’s Printemps, something a little more seasonal raised the temperature.

Attention to delivery, effective interpretation and intelligent programming is what make the duo such a consistently beloved force in concert.

Released from the Covent Garden pit, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House enjoyed its moment on the stage, breathing in the sea breezes of Ravel and Chausson, strutting its stuff in Bernstein and basking in shimmering Scriabin.

Sakari Oramo takes the reins for his first Last Night of the Proms, alongside dazzling violinist Janine Jansen and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

If you sing like an angel, might as well look like one. Philippe Jaroussky, considered one of the world’s finest countertenors, came onto the stage in Hohenems, Austria last Saturday evening with the demeanor of a celestial being...

Michel Plasson returns to l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in a program of French music and Karina Gauvin resplendent in Britten's Les Illuminations. It was an object lesson in how to capture the essential essence of French music. 

There are musical moments that lift you up into a jet stream you ride till your feet are on the pavement again. Last evening in Koerner Hall was a flow of such moments as the Amici Chamber Ensemble celebrated their first set of twenty-five musical years.

On Sunday afternoon, Glenn Gould Studio became host to a professional photo-shoot as well as the Amici Ensemble’s feature concert, “Fashionista: Fashion as Art.” The unique theme featured elegant gowns by Rosemarie Umetsu, demonstrating what one can draw and create from such elaborate musical selections. First on the programme was Galina Ustvolskaya’s Trio for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano.

American Ballet Theatre’s second programme at Sadler’s Wells transports us across the globe and through time beginning with a visit to the 19th century Russian Imperial Court and ending in wartime America. This is a mixed experience in more ways than one. Things get off to a tentative start with Balanchine’s Theme and Variations.

The intimate setting of the Wigmore Hall provided the ideal platform for mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn’s sensitive performance of songs by Faure, Chausson and Schumann. Her voice flowed apparently effortlessly through this varied repertoire, connecting powerfully with the audience.

En cette fin d'été, le Quatuor Hernani propose une diversité de climats et une puissance collective qui forcent l'admiration, jusque dans un Concert de Chausson intense avec Julien Dieudegard et Jonas Vitaud.

Le chef et les musiciens ont proposé des interprétations exceptionnelles dans un programme pourtant riche en tubes (Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Bolero...).

Après avoir laissé une impression mitigée dans Ravel et Chausson, la pianiste russe a livré une version d'anthologie des Treize Préludes op. 32 de Rachmaninov.

La création mondiale de la Ballade pour violon et orchestre d'Éric Tanguy est une superbe réussite, avant des Variations Enigma heureusement plus poétiques que pompeuses.

La Sinfónica de Galicia, Lozakovich y Chausson ofrecieron un irregular concierto con un Beethoven desconectado y un Chausson ya más vivo y equilibrado.

Dans un programme de musique symphonique très maritime, Philippe Jordan et l'Orchestre National de France ont montré une fois de plus la complicité qui les unit.

Le directeur musical de la formation parisienne donne aux œuvres de Debussy et Ravel des contrastes abrupts et une vivacité explosive, au détriment parfois de leur onirisme et de leur délicatesse.

Sous la direction de Michael Schønwandt, la formation éternellement jeune de France brille par sa cohésion, la transparence de sa texture orchestrale. Marie-Laure Garnier en impose dans Chausson.

Somptueuse Lisa Batiashvili, éblouissant Yannick Nézet-Séguin : la Philharmonie de Paris s'offre une soirée étoilée avec le Philadelphia Orchestra et son chef canadien, nommé Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Sous le titre berliozien Des milliers de sublimités, le festival de La Côte-Saint-André proposait cette semaine une programmation riche et passionnante, à la fois ambitieuse et abordable.

Le Quatuor Modigliani et Frank Braley se mêlent au timbre de velours de Cyrielle Ndjiki Nya et accompagnent les danseurs Agnès Letestu et Vincent Chaillet dans un pas de deux plein de grâce.