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Hans Graf conducts Debussy's Images to close a gala concert featuring the Singapore debut of the great Russian pianist. 

Playing works inspired by folk tunes from Romania, Hungary, France, Spain and England, Rattle pulled off a convincing performance, with Kavakos producing a strong Brahms concerto.

Sennu Laine brought out a richness and suspense in Dutilleux's Tout un monde lointain, I had not heard before tonight. With all three sets from Debussy’s Images pour orchestre and an ebullient Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, Barenboim and his Staatskapelle intoxicated the audience.

Vladimir Jurowski led the London Philharmonic Orchestra on a musical trip around Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Vladimir Jurowski built on the Cleveland Orchestra’s existing mastery of Debussy, along with a virtuosic performance by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet of Ravel’s G major piano concerto, and a recent work by Marc-André Dalbavie.

In an impressive display of orchestral playing he Oslo Philharmonic and conductor Fabien Gabel gave wonderfully colourful performances of works by Hellstenius, Ravel and Debussy.

Stephen Hough lays bare the myth that Saint-Saëns was a conservative in an electrifying performance of the “Egyptian” piano concerto with the RPO.

Even though I’ve been to quite a lot of concerts these past few years, I still can’t put my finger on why some concerts attract many attendees and especially why some are so sparsely visited.

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra are at once to be commended for colourful programming, and this evening’s concert was an excellent example of their facility in imagination. Tonight the audience dreamed with Debussy, swung with Gershwin, were lulled and bathed in the Spanish sunshine by Granados and, finally, blown from their seats and into the streets with Mussorgsky.

"A composer's music should express the country of his birth.." (Rachmaninov)Had Debussy adhered to his programme partner’s dictum, he might have struggled to write Images (1905-1912).