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Brahms vs Tchaikovsky, the final showdown? Perhaps not, but a close-run contest  between a deeply thoughtful Brahms Second Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. Was there a winner? 

Alexander Soddy steps in for an ailing Esa-Pekka Salonen to conduct the Philharmonia in Wagner and Bruckner. 

The ASO and Maestro Spano have started out the orchestra’s 75th anniversary year with hot-blooded performances that matched Atlanta's weather. 

The biggest stigma associated with opera in Ireland is not that it is an elitist art form, but that it is not “Irish”, and that it doesn’t belong to Irish culture, more of a recent import, like pasta, or avocado.

Conductor Tomáš Netopil combines the best of two worlds at the Dvořákʼs Prague festival.

Schumann and Wagner were twinned in a programme focusing on works written in 1850 with impressvie results. 

A polished and deeply moving Beethoven Violin Concerto from Nikolaj Znaider was complemented by exquisite and vibrant performances of Max Reger and Richard Strauss from the Staatskapelle Dresden.

German tenor Klaus Florian Vogt gave a delightful recital of Wagner, Mozart and operatta, aided by excellent playing by Staatskapelle Weimer.

A substantial musical menu of works by Wagner, Liszt and Berlioz, the poster boys of 19th century Romanticism, along with a world première, presented by l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Marc-André Hamelin and Kent Nagano. 

In his 2011 book Verdi and/or Wagner, currently doing the rounds in libraries across the UK for obvious reasons, Peter Conrad devotes the best of 400 pages to essentially draw all sorts of divisive lines: the sensual Italian song versus the cerebral German symphony; the radically different conceptions of tragedy (“Tragedy in Wagner is an act of will […] Verdi’s characters, unlike Wagner’s, would p

An allegiance to Welsh performers and composers is a major feature of this year’s tour by the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, with two native contemporary scores on the programme performed by a Welsh soloist and conductor. It could easily become cosy and parochial, but the results were amongst the NYOW’s finest achievements in recent years.

In recent years the German tenor Klaus Florian Vogt has gained fame for his lyrical portrayals of Wagnerian characters like Lohengrin, Parsifal, and Walther von Stolzing in Die Meisteresinger von Nürnberg.

La soprano noruega Lise Davidsen ofreció un recital acompañada por la Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia dentro del ciclo lírico de la Asociación de Amigos de la Ópera de La Coruña.

Bryn Terfel propose un récital maléfique et jubilatoire aux Chorégies d'Orange !

Klaus Florian Vogt, l'un des grands ténors wagnériens actuels a interprété avec brio au Théâtre des Champs Elysées Parsifal et surtout Lohengrin. Il était magnifiquement soutenu par Andris Nelsons avec le City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, qui ont aussi illuminé Dvorak.

C'est avec un professionnalisme et une dignité émouvante que les musiciens de l'OPS ainsi que leur chef invité se sont acquittés de la tâche ardue de jouer dans ces circonstances de deuil national.