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Were we to celebrate a great artist fifty years after his death with three misbegotten attempts at a form he never understood?

Deeply moving and often terrifyingly dark, Gergiev and the Mariinsky took us on a devastating ride towards the abyss which eventually left me grabbing for a rope.

In a memorable evening, Jurowski and the LPO presented entirely convincing accounts.

Under the indefatigable Valery Gergiev, the Mariinsky Orchestra took to the Cadogan Hall stage for the first of two colourful programmes pairing Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov with his pupil, Igor Stravinsky.

Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra celebrate Stravinsky with a gala that closes with an outstanding Firebird; young talent blooms in A Soldier's Tale

Joined by soloist Alexander Melnikov, Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot find the right key for a programme of works classical and neoclassical. 

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Scottish Chamber Orchestra composer in residence in the late 1980s, seemed an appropriate choice to write a piece for this, the orchestra’s 40th anniversary year. As the title suggests, Concert Overture: Ebb of Winter was written during the approach of Spring this year and portrays the changing seasons in Maxwell Davies’ adopted homeland of Orkney.

Daniele Gatti stellt sich der Herausforderung, Brahms’ Dritte Symphonie in Berlin zu dirigieren – und gewinnt.

El pasado martes la Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi ofreció un concierto, en el Baluarte de Pamplona, que tuvo como denominador común la escala en do mayor. La dirección de Hans Graf fue lo que dio un toque especial a la ejecución de las piezas escogidas de Beethoven, Stravinsky y Schumann.