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An eclectic America250 program traces multiple strands of American musical identity, with Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and the Mendelssohn Choir making the strongest impression.

After a joyful opener, Julian Bliss stars in Copland's Clarinet Concerto and Agustin Pennino is outstanding in Bernstein. 

Karina Canellakis brings a riot of Technicolor to the Edinburgh International Festival, but countertenor Hugh Cutting threatens to steal the show in Chichester Psalms.

William Kentridge's film, a patchwork collage depicting Shostakovich's complicated relationship with Stalin, is played as film score to his Tenth Symphony at the Southbank's genre-crossing Multitudes festival. 

After nearly axing the ensemble last year, the BBC celebrates 100 years of the BBC Singers with a rapturously received programme. 

Andris Nelsons makes no apologies for Shostakovich's Third Symphony, allowing it to blare, blaze, and bloviate as written.

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra mark the Bernstein centenary with a performance of Chichester Psalms in Chichester Cathedral itself. 

The Minnesota Chorale does Leonard Bernstein and Sir William Walton proud, with the Bernstein Chichester Psalms a particularly impressive presentation.  

It was a concert of two halves for RSNO's Bernstein tribute.

A première of Machover's latest City Symphony leaves its mark beyond works by Bernstein and Mussorgsky. 

Marin Alsop nods to her mentor in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, challenges the Edinburgh Festival Chorus with Villa-Lobos' Chôros 10 and astonishes in a passionate enduring performance of Shostakovich's Fifth.

The Last Night of the Proms provided a welcome tying-up of the various strands that have permeated this year’s season: British light music, the 60th anniversary of the Coronation, a host of premières and new BBC commissions, and the significant anniversaries of a number of composers (including the big-hitters of the season, Wagner and Britten).

Diferentes líneas melódicas condujeron un discurso antibelicista, en búsqueda de una comunidad intercultural a través de Bernstein, Copland o Jenkins.

Le Philhar' propose un concert de Noël sans grand rapport avec la Nativité mais on ne s'en plaindra pas, tant son programme américain est passionnant sous la baguette de Robert Treviño.

La versión orquestada de Ravel de Cuadros de una exposición y la humanista obra de Bernstein conformaron una velada simbólicamente antibelicista.

La Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, bajo la dirección de Marin Alsop, presentó con su particular caleidoscopio musical un interesante programa de obras inspiradas en las creencias de sus autores.

Der Tausendsassa Eric Whitacre zeigt mit einem Chorkonzert bei den Robeco SummerNights in Amsterdam seine Vielschichtigkeit.

Stéphane Denève, à la tête d’un Brussels Philharmonic en belle forme, fait entendre plusieurs facettes du talent de cet artiste protéiforme.

Geistliche, anglikanischen Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts bildeten das Programm des Münchner Rundfunkorchesters, das auf völlig unterschiedliche Weise versuchte, den Raum mit Klängen zu füllen.