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From the very first bars of Britten’s Violin Concerto, Augustin Hadelich impresses in Britten's Violin Concerto, yet Jaap van Zweden's Brahms 4 appears misaligned. 

The RSPO's Chief Conductor leads an impressive Bruckner 4. With Augustin Hagelich, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is lighter fare, but trips merrily.

Karina Canellakis makes her debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in a programme full of extremes. 

Jaime Martín keeps Mozart's Jupiter flowing with the elegant, life-enhancing energy that characterized the LACO under Sir Neville Marriner... just as stylish with perhaps more temperament. 

The orchestra and Semyon Bychkov warm up for a tour of the Far East aimed at winning hearts and minds for Czech music abroad.

A familiar face on the London scene, Paavo Järvi brings the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich to the Proms for the first time since 2014. 

Britten’s Violin Concerto could easily qualify as a Mount Everest for violinists, but Augustin Hadelich scaled it with deceptive ease.

Beautifully shaped, deeply felt interpretations of Britten and Sibelius plus a vibrant world premiere distinguish this Seattle Symphony program led by guest conductor Kazem Abdullah and featuring violinist Augustin Hadelich.

The young American conductor leads propulsive readings of Ravel and John Adams in his Philadelphia Orchestra debut, and partners perfectly with soloist Augustin Hadelich in Sibelius' Violin Concerto.

An urgent, fiery Eroica follows Augustin Hadelich’s poetic reading of Sibelius’ Violin Concerto at the Festival Hall.

Partnering Augustin Hadelich in the Sibelius Violin Concerto and directing two works by Mendelssohn, Andrés Orozco-Estrada doesn't quite temper acoustic problems associated with the ecclesiastical venue.

After urban Debussy and Adams, the duo settles for autumnal Brahms and a day in the countryside.

Augustin Hadelich is an authoritative interpreter in Bartók's Second Violin Concerto, while Alan Gilbert and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester never quite succeed in scaling the heights of Bruckner 7.

The young Finnish conductor, stepping in on short notice, led an incandescent performance of Beethoven’s Symphony no. 7. Augustin Hadelich was an excellent soloist in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no. 2.

This final concert of the BBCSO’s Total Immersion day dedicated to György Ligeti, proved to be something a revelation, both in terms of the variety of the music and the quality of the performances.

Stéphane Denève and Augustin Hadelich each prove themselves to be at the very forefront of performers active today. 

Maestro Edo de Waart and violinist Augustin Hadelich team up to provide a spectacular performance of Shostakovich.

When news of the discovery of Stravinsky's Funeral Song reached the classical music world, a near-revolution of excitement took place.

Hadelich dazzles, but Oundjian's Brahms is bland. 

Evocative new works by Adès and Coll were performed thrillingly and provocatively by the Britten Sinfonia as they brought fizz and clarity to Beethoven's eighth and Prokofiev's "Classical" Symphony.

Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Smetana, Bartók and Dvořák in Manchester.

The young German-American violinist Augustin Hadelich plays the Tchaikovsky concerto and Vasily Petrenko with the LPO give a heroic rendering of the same composer's “Manfred” Symphony.

An uninspired evening of classics, that nonetheless showed off the many sides of Shostakovich.

A potpourri of styles and chronology portrayed effectively by Edo de Waart, Augustin Hadelich, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Karina Cannelakis and Hong Kong Phil excite and please with disparate programme of Mozart and Strauss. 

The challenges presented on this program, particularly Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, allowed the TSO to impress with their technical precision, ensemble cohesiveness and stamina.

A Mozart symphony in the second half of this Houston Symphony concert could hardly compete with Augustin Hadelich playing Bartók. 

Not painting by the numbers: with a trio, a pair of quartets, and an octet, the Seattle Chamber Music Society offers more than the sum of its parts.

  Sibelius’s Violin Concerto and Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony play to an enthusiastic Cleveland audience on a beautiful evening at the Blossom Festival.

David Lang’s curated series collected stories drew to a close with three works by John Cage, including his autobiographical lecture Indeterminacy of 1958, performed simultaneously, and the world première of Lang’s own mystery sonatas, the only work of his own to be programmed for the series.

Verdi and Wagner may be turning 200 in 2013, but certainly that doesn’t make their music any more or less worth celebrating than it was last year, or will be in five years’ time.