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In her final Carnegie Hall appearance as principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the French conductor leads Schumann’s Fourth Symphony and Mozart’s Requiem. 

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Ryan Bancroft and violinist Anthony Marwood deliver an evening of rapid gear-shifting, punchy momentum, dancing lyricism and mischief at Hoddinott Hall.

Soprano Louise Alder explored the dying embers of the Romantic movement in a sensitive performance of Vier letzte Lieder.

Brio is one important element in the mining of Romantic feeling. Not everything worked in this combination of Mendelssohn, Bruch and Schumann.

Howard Griffiths conducts a rich, glowing performance of Schumann's Fourth Symphony in the second half of a heart-warming concert.

Wellber may have lots planned for the BBC Philharmonic over the coming years, but this exciting programme showed that he didn’t want to waste any time delivering.

A gloriously romantic performance by Lars Vogt and Royal Northern Sinfonia of Brahms' First Piano Concerto, complemented by Beethoven and Schumann.

Gabor Takács-Nagy conducts the Manchester Camerata in Mendelssohn, Bruch and Schumann

If you like your Schumann symphonies the old fashioned way with lush, sonorous strings and heroic horns and brass, then Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden are for you.

To works by Mendelssohn and Schumann, Søndergård added music by two impressive female composers who died far too young and whose works are far less known than they should be, Lili Boulanger and Morfydd Owen. 

The Philadelphia Orchestra gives us convincing renditions of Bernstein, Schumann and Strauss.

The replication of the weekend’s triumph was cut short by a somewhat dimly executed Fourth Symphony, as violinist Faust stole the show. 

Finnish pianist Juhani Lagerspetz impresses in Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto. 

The Berlin Philharmonic bring their cycle of Schumann and Brahms Symphonies to a fine conclusion with a convincing performance of Schumann's Fourth, and a spell-binding rendition of Brahms' E minor Symphony

Nikki Chooi makes something less than a fantasy out of Bruch but the Auckland Philharmonia shine in Schumann.

The Cleveland Orchestra's former Music Director, Christoph von Dohnányi, returned to lead radiant performances of two of Schumann's symphonies. 

Who says life isn’t a dress rehearsal? Saturday night at the Proms was just that for New York-born Marin Alsop, for when she returns to the Royal Albert Hall in two weeks’ time she will make Proms history as the first female conductor to preside over the Last Night.

Northern Sinfonia ended their 2012/13 season this evening with the final stop in their journey through the symphonies of Brahms and Schumann. This cycle has got better and better as it progressed, ending this evening in a concert that was a beautiful mixture of lightness and depth, exquisitely shaped by their conductor Thomas Zehetmair.

Ferdinand David, the concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra when Mendelssohn was conductor, must have been quite a virtuoso for the composer to have written his Violin Concerto in E minor for him.

Noseda is a persuasive champion of Dallapiccola's orchestral works. Two CDs [with the BBC PO] on Chandos, and talk of a third.So no surprise to find the early Partita programmed in this prom. It's a work of many colours, beginning with the dark low notes and steady rhythms of a solemn processional, which moves slowly into the sunny upland, guided by Yuri Torchinsky's limpid violin.