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Gianandrea Noseda leads glowing performances of Berg and Beethoven, while James Ehnes shines in Korngold's Violin Concerto .

Franz Welser-Möst creatively fused Schubert's “Unfinished” Symphony with Berg's Lyric Suite, before leading an opulent performance of Mass no. 6 in E flat Major.

In the first of two appearances to close the Elbphilharmonie's summer festival, Franz Welser-Möst and his doughty Clevelanders don't stint on discipline and power in Berg and Bruckner, but leave the listener emotionally short-changed.

Jonathan Nott, Johannes Moser, and the CSO portray a traditional program in particularly evocative fashion

The Zürcher Kammerorchester (ZKO) plays selections by Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils, Anton Webern and Alban Berg, in the context of a first-rate exhibition.

  The concert, which also featured quartets by Mozart and Brahms, was characterized by elegance and refinement, but also great musical drama.

A supremely entertaining and highly descriptive Symphonie fantastique from Lothar Koenigs and the Welsh National Opera Orchestra.

Few quotations have surprised, delighted and saddened me as much as this remark by Schoenberg: "There is nothing I long for more intensely than to be taken for a better sort of Tchaikovsky. People should know my tunes and whistle them." This was one of several anecdotes offered by Discovering Music's Stephen Johnson in the pre-concert talk on "The New Century".

This wasn't just another concert. It was Liebestod, a truly unique exploration of Berg's Lyric Suite. Berg's piece is a compelling work, whose mysteries were only revealed about twenty years ago when the composer's letters to his lover Hanna Fuchs-Robettin were released. Both were married, and the relationship was fraught with secrecy.