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The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s latest concert, tipped for European touring next year, fails to convince.

Gustavo Gimeno kicks off the TSO’s new season with new perspectives on the familiar and not-so-familiar

Gustavo Gimeno and the Toronto Symphony stir the emotions with a caring and dedicated performance of Mahler’s longest symphony.

The TSO effectively combine new and old with a first rate performance of the enargeia suite by Emily D’Angelo, followed by a satisfying Brahms First Symphony. A fitting tribute to dedicatee Sir Andrew Davis.

Gustavo Gimeno leads the Toronto Symphony in a programme of absorbing musical abstraction and storytelling, let down by a banal new trombone concerto.

The world premiere of Frncisco Coll's Cuidad sin Senũo (City That Never Sleeps) proves intriguing at the Royal Festival Hall.

Despite the hype surrounding the star pianist Daniil Trifonov, it was the TSO under Gustavo Gimeno who stole the show.

Spanning over a hundred years, this highly charged, sensuous programme of López Bellido, Ravel and Scriabin proved that composers’ fascination with orchestral colours has not faded.

The TSO’s opening concert promises a season of style and ideas, but it’s Gustavo Gimeno’s uncompromisingly raw Rite of Spring that offers the evening's pièce de résistance.

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. 

Gustavo Gimeno, Marc-André Hamelin and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra raise the roof with Messiaen’s epic – and eclectic – Turangalîla-Symphonie.

Austrian percussionist Martin Grubinger delivers a memorable performance at Berlin's Staatsoper with a programme featuring Peter Eötvös and Tan Dun, under the baton of Gustavo Gimeno.

Gustavo Gimeno conducts The Cleveland Orchestra in works by Ravel and Franck, along with a recent Bryce Dessner concerto featuring the Labèque sisters.

An all-day Beethoven experience European style with both highs and lows: much diversity revealed and exploited but of variable quality.

Daredevil piano playing and luscious Stravinsky at the 47th Istanbul Music Festival.

Gustavo Gimeno conducts a program anchored by Scheherazade as well as a cello concerto by Ginastera, featuring Cleveland Orchestra principal Mark Kosower.

Renaud Capuçon's Mendelssohn and a strong Schumann 2 make up for a rocky start in Edinburgh.

Gustavo Gimeno, making his Symphony Hall debut, impressed in a program opening with Ligeti's Concert Românesc.

Gustavo Gimeno conducted the Cleveland Orchestra in a colorful program inclusive of a pair of Spanish works, Stravinsky’s Firebird, and the Lalo Cello Concerto with soloist Johannes Moser.

A stimulating and imaginative programme, including folksy Ligeti, with striking Salonen and intense Bartók from Lawrence Power, finished off with powerful Mahler from Gustavo Gimeno and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Paul Jacobs bring Rouse's Organ Concerto to DC.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra scored a major win when they engaged Daniil Trifonov to visit for three orchestral concerts and a solo recital. 

Spanish conductor Gustavo Gimeno conducts a triple-bill programme of Russian music at the Zurich opera house, featuring the gifted Latvian violinist, Baiba Skride. 

Harriet Krijgh and Gustavo Gimeno excel in their Liverpool debuts, and the RLPO earn a rapturous reception for a ravishing Scheherazade, destined to remain long in the memory. 

In an exciting programme of Prokofiev, Penderecki and Lutoslawski, two musicians debuted with the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Both impressed greatly.