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Between gigs at Wembley as Coldplay’s support act, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra brings its distinctive brand of infectious music-making to the Southbank.

What do Tchaikovsky, de Falla and Beethoven have in common? Nothing, but Vasily Petrenko and the Singapore Symphony thrill. 

The world premiere of Frncisco Coll's Cuidad sin Senũo (City That Never Sleeps) proves intriguing at the Royal Festival Hall.

Domingo Hindoyan and Javier Perianes bring a Mediterranean themed evening to Liverpool on an autumnal evening. The Spanish sunshine shining on Philharmonic Hall was occasionally obscured by clouds. 

Juanjo Mena conducts a programme entirely dedicated to Spanish music, including zarzuelas and popular scores by Manuel de Falla.

Robert Louis Stevenson was clear in the advice he gave: “It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.” Pablo Heras-Casado, Bertrand Chamayou and the house orchestra of the Elbphilharmonie embark on musical journeys, but with mixed results.

Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme that sends the audience on its imaginary travels.

Finding orange everywhere: a concept concert from the BBC Concert Orchestra with Anna-Maria Helsing and Victor Sangiorgio. 

An enjoyable concert of Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Ravel's Piano concerto for the Left Hand and Nielsen's Symphony no. 5 by the Mexican duo Carlos Prieto and Jorge Osorio. 

From dawn to nightfall in picture-postcard Spain followed by a detour to Kastchei’s magic garden, the Philharmonia didn’t stint on local colour.

Charles Dutoit's mostly Spanish program was highlighted by two major scores of Manuel de Falla.

“More facility than substance”: perhaps an apt description of the music of Ottorino Respighi.  Certainly on the evidence of last night’s concert, featuring the three ever popular Roman tone poems, one could have been left with that impression, but we had a thoroughly good time in the process.

Colourful and varied offering from Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra celebrating the many strands of Iberian musical tradition. 

Richard Turp sees L’Orchestre symphonique de Québec and conductor Fabien Gabel impress greatly in a program of twentieth century classics by de Falla and Ravel at the Maison symphonique.

The overriding theme of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s season finale concert appeared to be night, teaming Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain with the raging force and violence of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.

It was an evening of contrasts in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s latest concert. The program was subtitled Tchaikovsky at the Ballet, referring to the second half of the concert, which comprised highlights from the Nutcracker and Swan Lake; however, the first half was every bit as intriguing.

Paul Dukas' success rests almost exclusively upon his symphonic scherzo L'apprenti sorcier ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice").

Prom 10 was a heady mix of Franco-Spanish music, from Debussy’s evocative Images for orchestra to Manual de Falla’s exotic Nights in the Gardens of Spain, all under the baton, appropriately, of Basque-born conductor Juanjo Mena, who takes over as Chief Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in September.