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María Dueñas and Saioa Hernández anchor a Spanish programme in New York marked by a Hollywood detour. 

Berg's concerto “To the Memory of an Angel” is played with heart-melting beauty; David Afkham and the Orchestre national de Lyon offer pleasant, but unmemorable, Beethoven and Brahms. 

In music of Mahler and Brahms, David Afkham, a gifted young German conductor, was not afraid to bring forward a personal view

David Afkham scored a successful CSO debut in Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony and Beethoven First Piano Concerto with Emanuel Ax.

Tom Cairns’ Glyndebourne production features svelte costumes and sets, yet – unlike Verdi’s response to Marie Duplessis’ fate – Violetta’s tale left me entirely unmoved.

Linked together by Bach's chorale “Es ist genug”, the Philharmonia performed Lindberg's enigmatic Chorale, Berg's Violin Concerto and Schubert's Symphony no. 9 in C major “Great”. After an underwhelming first half, some invigorating Schubert saved the day.

Nearing the end of Lincoln Center’s annual Mostly Mozart Festival – a name that rather allows for just about any programming whim – Friday night was a return to a composer who might more plausibly appear within the programs of a Mostly Beethoven or Mostly Bach festival, but whose presence here was due, one guesses, to his devotion to the concerto genre and to a certain formal elegance in his symph

It isn’t often that the Musikverein programmes Webern, the most underperformed of Vienna’s major musical sons, alongside a Liebestod from Bayreuth’s reigning Isolde, but then this was no ordinary Musikverein concert.