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The German violinist gives us plenty of Czech brio in Dvořák; conductor and orchestra display many good qualities but fail to thrill.

Joshua Bell brings intimacy and precision to his Philharmonic performance of Dvořák’s Violin Concerto. 

Gil Shaham’s masterful artistry and amber tone illuminate Dvořák’s Violin Concerto, which masterfully fuses German Romanticism with Czech folk traditions.

Montreal-bred Karen Gomyo steals the show in Dvořák's Violin Concerto with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal under guest conductor John Storgårds. 

Eugene Tzigane and Midori join PKF – Prague Philharmonia for fresh takes on familiar classics.

The orchestra and Semyon Bychkov warm up for a tour of the Far East aimed at winning hearts and minds for Czech music abroad.

The Estonian Festival Orchestra reunites under its founder at the eleventh edition of the Pärnu Music Festival. 

The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra bring a wonderfully bucolic programme of Czech music to The Proms.

The Hong Kong Phil and Long Yu crossing the cultural divide in a trio of Slavic works.

Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse lets the air out of a promising program and a Czech classic.

A wonderful evening of unforced, smiling music-making from Bernard Haitink, Isabelle Faust and the London Symphony Orchestra. 

A replacement conductor and soloists demonstrate brillance in Dvořák and Schubert in Edinburgh.

Hadelich dazzles, but Oundjian's Brahms is bland. 

Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing unearths the subtleties and plaintive lyricism of Dvorak's violin concerto while Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the NSO deliver an exhilarating Eroica.

Gustavo Gimeno, making his Symphony Hall debut, impressed in a program opening with Ligeti's Concert Românesc.

A Tchaikovsky and Dvorak programme at the Lucerne festival featured star violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. 

A stuttering first half of Adams and Dvořák redeemed by a magical Mahler 1.

Despite Sarah Chang's star appeal, conductor Pietari Inkinen and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra prove to be the main attraction in a crowd-pleasing programme of Dvořák and Tchaikovsky.

Jack Liebeck and the Hallé Orchestra under Karl-Heinz Steffens gave an impressive performance of Dvořák’s Violin Concerto at Leeds Town Hall. 

Anne-Sophie Mutter impresses Sydney in Dvořák and Beethoven, before a less magnetic “Eroica”. 

Dvořák's Violin Concerto featured Concertmaster William Preucil as soloist, and Ravel's orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition rounded out the program.

Simone Lamsma returned to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra to perform Dvořák's Violin Concerto, a highly lyrical and rich work. Also in the programme was Sibelius's triumphant and dramatic Fifth Symphony.

After 19 years, David Zinman took his leave from the post of music director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich yesterday with an affectionate Proms programme of Strauss, Dvořák and Beethoven. 

As part of the short series of concerts curated by Jakub Hrůša, Bohemian Legends,focusing on Czech music from its golden era 1850 – 1950 and featuring three of its greatest masters (Dvořák, Janáček and Suk), the Philharmonia treated us to a collection of almost excessively rousing works.

Andrzej Panufnik was paired with Dvořák for this London Symphony Orchestra concert at the Barbican, conducted by Michael Francis and featuring Anne-Sofie Mutter.

The Orquesta Nacional de España with violinist Veronika Eberle and organist Daniel Oyarzábal plays three nineteenth-century works: Berlioz's Roman Carnival overture, Dvořák’s Violin Concerto and Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony.

It may have been the autumn equinox, but this evening spring came to a balmy Birmingham, meteorologically and musically. Symphony Hall was abuzz in anticipation of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in the piece’s centenary year, but the concert – and the 2013/14 season – was launched with Wagner’s Tannhäuser overture.

Just a few weeks after the announcement that Oxford would be hosting the UK’s first major Stradivari exhibition this June, Maxim Vengerov gave a phenomenal performance on one of the Italian craftsman’s instruments. Performing on the ex-Kreutzer instrument made in 1727, Vengerov’s performance with the Oxford Philomusica was unforgettable.

Michael Francis is the go-to conductor to replace fellow maestros at short notice. The newly appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor to Norrköping Symphony Orchestra in Sweden stood in for Valery Gergiev with only 12 hours’ notice, and for John Adams with even less, in performances with the London Symphony Orchestra in 2007.

When you go to see a student orchestra play a concert, your expectations are generally lower than with professional orchestras. And so, when the Symfonieorkest of the Amsterdam Conservatory and soloists from the same Conservatory came to Leiden with an exciting program of Ravel, Prokofiev, Dvořák and Janáček, I thought it’d be a fun night, but not necessarily impressive.