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Who needs conductors when you've got synergy? The Camerata Salzburg and Hélène Grimaud bring Mozart and Brahms to Berlin's Philharmonie. 

Yannick Nézet-Séguin smartly surrounds a guaranteed crowd-pleaser – Brahms’ First Piano Concerto – with less familiar works by Julia Wolfe and Louise Farrenc. 

Hélène Grimaud's Singapore recital sonorously unites Hans von Bülow’s “three Bs of music” – Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. 

In his Carnegie Hall debut, the young Czech conductor leads a meaty and memorable program of Brahms and Wagner, with joined by Hélène Grimaud for Robert Schumann’s sole Piano Concerto.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra give the world premiere of Esteban Benzecry’s MUYUY, The circle of life before a performance of Florence Price's Fourth Symphony. 

Two minor key works, performed before a – limited – live audience in Dallas, and streamed online. 

The program also featured a compelling world premiere from composer Valerie Coleman and a stirring performance of Dvořák's “New World” Symphony.

Grimaud married incredible precision and rigour with moving sensitivity and ease. She led the listener clearly through the score without dropping a detail, but never gave the feeling that she was micro-managing.

Bearded Brahms was prolific in the two works in this Boston Symphony program under Andris Nelsons. 

Andris Nelsons, and Hélène Grimaud present a much-anticipated Brahms “mini-fest” of the four symphonies and two piano concertos in Boston. 

A fascinating recital from Hélène Grimaud at the Barbican balanced a first half sequence exploring works with an aquatic theme against some monumental Brahms. 

Helene Grimaud's recital inside Disney Hall mucially captures and captivates nature's terrene elements with a balance of aqueous colouring and deeply grounded terra firma.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Rotterdam Philharmonic brought a colorful and exciting program to Hill Auditorium, Detroit.

Hélène Grimaud, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic impress in a colourful programme of 20th century gems. 

Artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud literally flooded the Park Avenue Armory with tears become… streams become… 

Both Andris Nelsons and the Philharmonia Orchestra showed total commitment to and immersion in Brahms' music in this instalment in Nelsons' cycle with the orchestra. They were joined by Hélène Grimauld for the Second Piano Concerto, before the Fourth Symphony.

It is often said of British orchestras that their sound lacks the visceral, characterful edge of their colleagues on the continent.

After a summer at the Blossom Music Center, it was good to have The Cleveland Orchestra back in its Severance Hall habitat for the opening on the 2013/14 concert season on Thursday evening.

The Czech Philharmonic has had something of an eventful history since its first concert, given under the baton of Antonín Dvořák in 1896. Since then, the orchestra has been conducted by a number of distinguished musicians, including Gustav Mahler.

The Napa Valley is famous for its picturesque countryside, stunning weather and fine wine. With the ambitious Festival del Sole concluding their seventh season on Sunday night with a concert featuring two titans of classical music - Joshua Bell and Hélène Grimaud – they proved that “wine country” has even more to offer the Northern California region than that which makes them one of the premier de

Two firsts for the price of one. The anticipated Piano Concerto no. 2 by Brahms was replaced by no. 1, as it suited French pianist Hélène Grimaud’s recording commitments with Deutsche Grammophon.

The final week of the 2011 Proms season began with a flamboyant and exhilarating concert given by the superb Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, who celebrate their 110th anniversary this year. They were joined by pianist Hélène Grimaud, playing Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, the piece with which she made her Proms debut in 2001.

The music of Richard Strauss is dramatic, radical and philosophical. It is also a surprisingly good cure for a February cold; its sheer vitality blows away those winter blues.