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Rodolfo Barráez conducts two Mozart symphonies and Singapore Symphony principal clarinettist Ma Yue plays a rarely heard concerto by Gerald Finzi. 

Haydn, Mozart and Pärt put ten young conductors through their paces in the Järvi Academy Gala.

At Suntory Hall, Ton Koopman and the NHK Symphony Orchestra bring elegance and exuberance to an all-Mozart programme including a flute concerto featuring its principal flautist.

Joyous, loving Mozart from the Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim in the first orchestral concert of the 2020 Musikfest Berlin.

Janáček's The Fiddler’s Child and Mozart's 39th Symphony complete a varied program under Michael Stern.

Imogen Cooper shone in Aurora's serious and fulsome performances of Mozart.

Mozart's final three symphonies make for a brilliant opening to the Australian Chamber Orchestra's London residency. 

When news of the discovery of Stravinsky's Funeral Song reached the classical music world, a near-revolution of excitement took place.

The Doors of Perception swung wide at Symphony Hall as Charles Dutoit led the Boston Symphony in an unusual and engrossing pairing of Mozart’s boisterous, Haydenesque Symphony no. 39 in E flat, K543, and Bartók’s one-act opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle,

A high-level concert with some interesting choices of interpretation – sometimes fascinating, sometimes a bit too bold.

Le Cercle d'Harmonie with their founder Jérémie Rhorer fail to convince in symphonies by Mozart and Mendelssohn, whereas the Italian soprano Rosa Feola triumphs in two concert arias.

Conducting entirely from memory, Herbert Blomstedt and the Philharmonia gave a rousing performance of Bruckner's Fourth and Mozart's 39th.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the English Baroque Soloists through three Mozart Symphonies in one evening, educating along the way.

Great chemistry between conductor (and violinist, and violist!) Pinchas Zukerman and the CSO leads to joyful performances.

Combining instruments and performing practices old and new, Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra render Mozart symphonies with panache.

A Mozart symphony in the second half of this Houston Symphony concert could hardly compete with Augustin Hadelich playing Bartók. 

A satisfying, but uninvolving, evening of familiar and well-loved Mozart symphonies. 

Who could ask for anything more – Ignat Solzhenitsyn joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for a concert of Mozart, featuring the 39th Symphony and the 18th Piano Concerto, which Solzhenitsyn conducted from the keyboard.

Arthur Rimbaud’s prose poems Les Illuminations are strange fragments of visions that can mean anything or nothing, depending on the attitude of the reader.

Fifteen years ago I sat dutifully listening to the excellent Haringey Schools Orchestra nobly attempting to bring off the herculean musical feat of the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony. Many hours of coaching and rehearsal had clearly brought the youngsters to this point. Proud parents and friends fidgeted through the painful 55 minutes, and everyone clapped appreciatively when it ended.

New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival continued Friday evening with three works, all marvelous and presented in reverse-chronological order. After Witold Lutosławski’s Muzyka żałobna, the orchestra and conductor Louis Langrée were joined by French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet for Bartók’s Piano Concerto no. 3, and the concert concluded with Mozart’s Symphony no. 39 in E flat major.

Münchener Symphoniker is one of four professional symphony orchestras based in Munich, and although perhaps less well known than the Philharmoniker or the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, they are able to hold their own amidst the stiff competition.

The Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall is enough to catch anyone’s breath. But it wasn’t the grandeur of the hall that struck me; it was the fact that the conductor’s podium was missing from the stage. A bold statement: it was clear Sir Roger Norrington was going to conduct the Orchestra of St. Luke’s his own way.Kicking off the evening’s performance was Haydn’s Symphony no. 39 in G minor.