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An exceptional programme with insight, didn’t quite fulfil itself with renditions that had understanding, but lacked a little polish and refinement.

Bernstein, Chindamo and Rachmaninov bring an evening of jazz-inspired music from the streets of New York to a deeply personal Russian symphony. 

The inaugural mcr:classical weekend comes to a rowdy finish with Stravinsky's Rite of Spring at The Bridgewater Hall.

Zurich's Tonhalle Orchestra and Paavo Järvi celebrate music by American composers Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin, along with a work by Paul Hindemith.

This concert at Usher Hall delivered extraordinary playing, in repertoire ranging from Beethoven to Bernstein and Sibelius.

In an all-Bernstein programme, Nicola Benedetti enthralls in Symposium, the Baltimore Symphony’s percussionists strut their stuff in the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, and Marin Alsop introduces us to rarities. A true birthday treat.

Exuberance and reflection from the Brussels Philharmonic in a celebration of Leonard Bernstein.

The much-anticipated San Diego Symphony OPUS event commemorated the Greatest Generation with Maestro Jahja Ling programming works of Leonard Bernstein and Rachmaninoff, composers active during that generation’s era, to bookend excerpts from Bizet’s ever-popular L’Arlésienne Suites. 

"Freedom fries": no two words could better summarize the crassness that characterized the early years of the American 21st century.In the wake of disagreement over the Iraq War, American xenophobes sought to eradicate from these shores any vestige of the Tricolour.

Die Münchner Philharmoniker wagen sich mit Dirigent Wayne Marshall auf ungewohntes Terrain: statt großer Symphonie spielen sie Tanz und Varietémusik von Bernstein bis Künneke. Das Experiment geht auf!

Milhaud, Bernstein et Ellington réunissent amateurs de symphonique et de jazz à Lyon

Thomas Hampson unternahm in der Münchner Philharmonie mit seinem Programm einen Streifzug durch knapp drei Jahrhunderte Musikgeschichte - zusammen mit dem Mozarteumorchester Salzburg unter der Leitung von Pavel Baleff.

Joshua Weilerstein dirigiert das Mozarteumorchester im Großen Festspielhaus und entführt das Publikum auf eine spannende Reise durch das Amerika des 20. Jahrhunderts.