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Despite a rousing start the touring VSO produce some understated Brahms and Shostakovich at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall. 

Dima Slobodeniouk’s Pittsburgh program is centered around ocean-inspired music of Debussy, Sibelius, and Icelandic composer María Sigfúsdóttir.

A dynamic and forceful performance of Shostakovich's Violin Concerto no. 2 is the highlight in a concert that also features an elegant little Sibelius opening and two of Strauss' tone poems.

A superb evening of vivid and involving performances of Mozart, Vasks and Shostakovich, showcasing the very best of this South Coast orchestra.

Stepping in for Daniil Trifonov, the Ukrainian-born Israeli parries and thrusts in Korngold's Violin Concerto, the highlight of Gustavo Gimeno's Proms debut. 

An unusually fresh reading of the Pastoral Symphony complemented a world premiere by Singaporean composer Zechariah Go and an exuberant performance of Shostakovich's Second Violin Concerto.

Brio is one important element in the mining of Romantic feeling. Not everything worked in this combination of Mendelssohn, Bruch and Schumann.

Omer Meir Wellber conducts his first Bridgewater Hall concert as Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic.

The finale of the BBCSO’s Bernstein celebration features the composer at his most sublime and frivolous, and offers a rare performance of Songfest for six soloists and orchestra.

In Zurich’s new and provisional Tonhalle Maag, Omer Meir Wellber recently conducted a triple bill of works from the Baroque, Romantic and modern periods.

Neeme Järvi’s authoritative CSO appearance was grounded by two major scores of Sibelius, preceded by a Prokofiev violin concerto with Vadim Gluzman and a rarely heard work of Glazunov.

Prom 22 was a surreal evening of music, centered around the UK première of Auerbach’s The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie.

If the presence of BBC Radio 3 and a huge audience occasioned any nervousness on the evening of Peter Oundjian’s first Edinburgh appearance as RSNO Music Director, it was well hidden. Weaving with boyish enthusiasm through the orchestra, a sporting spring in his step, he acknowledged the warm welcome before the orchestra dived into Glinka’s 1842 overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla.

Jiří Bělohlávek, who was indisposed for his first scheduled Proms performance this year (in his final season as Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra), was back on the podium to conduct a Slavic-themed programme on Wednesday night. There were many elements of the concert which I enjoyed, especially the grandiose and colourful arrangement of Smetana’s String Quartet no.