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The Cincinnati Symphony vividly brings to life sprawling vistas of the American West in a stellar performance of Messiaen’s vast Des Canyons aux étoiles…

Guest conductor Matthias Pintscher pairs Webern's "idyll for large orchestra" with Richard Strauss' Oboe Concerto, featuring an elegant Philippe Tondre as soloist.

Matthias Pintscher revels in Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, once described as a “bath of ice, cocaine and rainbows”, while George Li plays Ravel. 

Conductor Matthias Pintscher and soloists Michelle DeYoung and Sean Panikker offered a moving but uneven interpretation of Das Lied von der Erde.

Ravel and Pintscher's own music were juxtaposed on this programme from Amsterdam. 

Dressed in white, with an origami swan in his hand, Robert Alagna's Lohengrin is less a Grail knight than an absent-minded daydreamer.

With his composer’s ear for detail, Pintscher also led a colorful performance of Bartók’s The Wooden Prince.

Jean-Yves Thibaudet was the soloist for a stylish account of Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the left hand, and the complete music for Daphnis et Chloé filled out the program.

Cédric Tiberghien was the astonishing soloist in Saint-Saëns’s “Egyptian” Concerto, with works by Pintscher, Schoenberg and Debussy’s La Mer filling out the program.

In a study of shifting form, tonight's dedication to the bard paired Mendelssohn's incidental music to the play with another work inspired by The Metamorphoses: Matthias Pintscher's mesmerising Reflections on Narcissus.

At the Lucerne Festival, composer Olga Neuwirth, Ensemble Contemporain and a sound team from IRCAM recently shone in a theatrical performance of an complex and ocean shore-inspired score.

The Lucerne Festival recently celebrated the life and musical achievement of the great French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez on the occasion of his 90th birthday.

Schoenberg's extraordinary orchestration of Brahms' G minor Piano Quartet completes a satisfying Sydney Symphony Orchestra concert under the baton of Matthias Pintscher. 

The best stories are the ones that creep under right under our skin and stay with us. Matthias Pintscher drew us up close to the fire on a dark night for a spellbinding evening.

Two works composed in the past two years, one by a 28-year-old, one by a 103-year-old. Each offered such a wide span of sounds that within a half hour, the audience had been whisked through every imaginable mood.

Poor Ravel: even in death his significant talents are overshadowed by Debussy. Barely had the ink dried on his orchestrated Rapsodie Espagnole before it was eclipsed by the emergence of his iconoclast friend and rival’s equally Hispanic-tinged suite Iberia and, over 90 years on, the programme notes to Prom 48 contain a detailed discussion on whether Ravel’s legacy has been obstructed by his contem