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A program of Beethoven and Mahler from the Budapest Festival Orchestra celebrated the beauty and terror of the natural world.

Sultry Berg and and a lithe, forceful Beethoven Nine herald an exciting new reign in Berlin.

Even in a flawed performance, The Song of the Earth fills the hearer with its life-affirming carpe diem message.

Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic's performance of Mahler's “Resurrection” Symphony properly revealed the tensions between intensity and stillness, resistance and fragility. 

Mahler's Resurrection Symphony provides both a thrilling opener and apt metaphor for the orchestra's new era under Chief Conductor Semyon Bychkov.

A superb start to the Britten Sinfonia's Brahms cycle.

Not a seat to be had for the BBCSO’s thrilling Proms performance of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony. 

An ambitious new Austrian symphony is dwarfed by the proven might of Wagner and Strauss in the BBC Symphony Orchestra's latest Prom.

This was a rapturous celebration of creative instrumentation, virtuosity and brilliance that completely engaged and energized.

A perfect cast and great conducting make the Bayerische Staatsoper's Die Walküre thrilling and memorable.

Kriegenburg's staging of Wagner's Ring cycle begins with a visually appealing but intellectually empty Rheingold.

Khovanshchina offers ample opportunity for massive, haunting and grandiose vocal display,  beautifully realized by a remarkable cast led by Ain Anger, Elena Maximova and Ferruccio Furlanetto.

They whistle, they compose, they parody and they certainly can play. If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then Amarcord Wien are kings of their realm.

It often takes time to adjust to Nikolaus Harnoncourt's tempi, but this concert performance of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro enabled the audience to discover new colours in a well known score. 

“Of all my works, the one that pleases me most is the Casa I’ve had built in Milan to accommodate old singers who have not been favoured by fortune or who did not possess the virtue of thrift in their youth”. This is how Verdi described the retirement home for elderly musicians he founded at the time of the composition of this opera Falstaff.