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Fabio Luisi and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra continue their European tour, dropping anchor in Hamburg for Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and a John Williams concerto written for the star German violinist. 

What fills a large London concert hall? It could be time for a rethink.

John Williams' Violin Concerto composed for Anne-Sophie Mutter misses the mark in the LPO's night at the movies. 

With the audience increasingly familiar with John Williams' Second Violin Concerto, its architecture and emotion become much clearer than at its 2021 premiere.

Looking at its past, its present and its future, the Boston Symphony returns to Symphony Hall after the Covid hiatus. 

Martha Argerich is one of the musical miracles of our times. Like exquisite wine, she seems to gain depth and new qualities with maturity.

When did three such luminaries last grace the same concert, let alone the same first half?

The stellar performance of the evening was Anne-Sophie Mutter performing Penderecki's Violin Concerto no. 2 “Metamorphosen”.

A Tchaikovsky and Dvorak programme at the Lucerne festival featured star violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. 

A stuttering first half of Adams and Dvořák redeemed by a magical Mahler 1.

If Chailly’s recent Beethoven’s Seventh was notable for its originality, particularly for the conductor's choice of tempi, here he opted for a straighter reading free of idiosyncrasy.

Sir Mark Elder conducted the LSO through a series of inimitable Russian works while the star player veered off course to formulate her own new genre – quite deliciously.

World-class artists collaborate to celebrate Suntory Hall's 30th anniversary. 

Thomas Adès, in the first concert of his mini Composer Focus with the LSO, conducted three of his own works and one by Brahms at the Barbican.

Anne-Sophie Mutter impresses Sydney in Dvořák and Beethoven, before a less magnetic “Eroica”. 

A recent concert by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis, piano, saw the Tonhalle almost having to hold people back at the gates.

Fresh from their performance at Carnegie Hall, Anne-Sophie Mutter and her Mutter Virtuosi arrived in Toronto, playing Roy Thompson Hall to a loud, appreciative crowd.

Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic kicked off their eight-day residency at Carnegie Hall with vodka instead of champagne.

It may have been the autumn equinox, but this evening spring came to a balmy Birmingham, meteorologically and musically. Symphony Hall was abuzz in anticipation of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in the piece’s centenary year, but the concert – and the 2013/14 season – was launched with Wagner’s Tannhäuser overture.

An excellent orchestra and a rather grab-bag program officially opened the 2013 Musikfest Berlin last night. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and its music director, Manfred Honeck, are currently on a European tour, and the audience at the Philharmonie rewarded their long trek with abundant applause, necessitating two encores.

Michael Francis is the go-to conductor to replace fellow maestros at short notice. The newly appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor to Norrköping Symphony Orchestra in Sweden stood in for Valery Gergiev with only 12 hours’ notice, and for John Adams with even less, in performances with the London Symphony Orchestra in 2007.