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The Icelandic pianist and Finnish conductor make a superb case for John Adams' latest concerto; the Philharmonia play Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé strongly but don't convince completely.

Ballett am Rhein open their season by bringing their programme to Düsseldorf, Soirée Ravel. Marking the 150th birthday of composer Maurice Ravel, audiences are treated to four of his most famous compositions.

John Wilson brings his Sinfonia of London to the BBC Proms to crown the Ravel 150 celebrations with a glowing performance of his hedonistic symphonie chorégraphique.

Kevin Puts' song cycle inspired by the correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz makes its long-awaited New York debut, featuring Renée Fleming and Rod Gilfry. 

 Aaron Lifschitz directs contemporary circus artists, Circa in an exhilarating, ecstatic performance with the London Philharmonic to launch the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival. 

Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and a prelude from Dame Ethel Smyth's opera The Wreckers are heard for the first time in Singapore. 

Alisa Weilerstein plays Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante before her husband conducts a key work from the OSM's history, Ravel's ballet Daphnis et Chloé. 

At the Philharmonie, an all-French programme conducted by Juanjo Mena takes the audience back to the vibrant Parisian scene of the 1910s and 20s. 

In his second week of local performances, the Finnish composer-conductor offers a lush performance of music by a beloved collaborator, the late Kaija Saariaho.

Marking their 20th anniversary with a celebratory tour, Les Siècles perform French classics at the Barbican under their twinkle-toed founder, François-Xavier Roth. 

In this unusual combination of works, a complex motet by Judith Weir emphasised brutalism, while a complete ballet score by Ravel sets Apollo against Dionysus. A young Finnish soloist joined her compatriot Oramo for an English Romantic concerto.

In a patchwork assembly of German Romantic and French impressionistic works, the chief interest in the Budapest Festival Orchestra's latest programme was the appearance of star violist Tabea Zimmermann in pieces by Schumann and Kurtág.

A memorable and important event in the history of British ballet, sensitively and sentimentally performed. 

As well as keeping the musical, choreographic and theatrical treasures of the Ballets Russes alive, En compagnie de Nijinsky reignites the company’s avant garde-ist vision.

Jun Märkl excels in an all-French program entitled “Vive la France”. 

Beautiful textures and radiant clarity as the CBSO comes to the Edinburgh Festival.

Polished but ultimately tepid performances that kept the emotional temperature under wraps despite some fine individual playing and singing.

Jean-Yves Thibaudet was the soloist for a stylish account of Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the left hand, and the complete music for Daphnis et Chloé filled out the program.

Maurice Ravel opened his 1928 tour of the United States conducting a series of concerts with the Boston Symphony featuring his own music.

There is some good dancing in Benjamin Millepied's I Felt the Earth Move but it missed the mark as far as emotional content is concerned.

Alain Altinoglu, conducting with a mixture of histrionic flourishes and balletic flair, leads a fiery account of Ravel's ballet. 

The St Petersburg Philharmonic make their contribution to Sage Gateshead's year long theme of dance, delighting a sold-out Hall One with their luxurious sound.

Luscious orchestral and choral sounds bring Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé to shimmering life.

The world première of Julian Anderson's In lieblicher Blaue and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé make for a colourful programme from the LPO.

Besides the complete Ravel ballet, Franz Welser-Möst and Clevelanders also give a crisp account of Mozart's "Jupiter" symphony.

The Tonhalle orchestra’s new conductor, Lionel Bringuier, was joined by the venerable Brazilian pianist, Nelson Freire, in a fine programme of Romantic music in Zurich.

Maestro Tilson Thomas led the San Francisco Symphony in a unique program that fell just short of expectations.

Sir Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in Shostakovich's Violin Concerto no. 1 with Viktoria Mullova and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé at the Bridgewater Hall. 

Ravel and Dove complement each other, but Mozart sits oddly out of place in the BBC Symphony Orchestra's latest Prom. 

Leading the Seattle Symphony in an all-French program, Ludovic Morlot takes subtle risks that pay off splendidly in one of the centrepiece events of a nationwide orchestral summit. 

Extreme dynamics explored in Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and Boléro presented by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Jaap van Zweden, complemented by Louis Lortie's Mozart. 

Charles Dutoit conducts the RPO in strikingly colourful performances of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and Poulenc's Gloria. 

The Italian vocal ensemble Cappella Artemisia, directed by mezzo-soprano Candace Smith, is a chamber group devoted to recovering the rich musical repertoire of the 16th- and 17th-century Italian convents.

The Southbank Centre’s centenary celebration of Witold Lutosławski, titled Woven Words, can easily be overshadowed by the excitement of this year’s The Rest is Noise festival.

The concert by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) on Monday concluded its 2011/2012 season, the first in its new home at the Maison Symphonique de Montréal.The evening got off to an upbeat start with Berlioz’s Le Corsaire overture. As a composer of overtures, Hector Berlioz may well have been the torchbearer for the Beethovenian tradition.

The Philadelphia Orchestra was at Carnegie Hall this weekend, led by Chief Conductor Charles Dutoit and joined by pianist Maria João Pires, to perform works by Glinka, Chopin, and Ravel. After this season, American audiences will presumably be seeing less of Mr.

In this, the last of his farewell programmes, Stéphane Denève bade au revoir to Edinburgh in front of an audience of the great and the good, containing ambassadors, diplomats and ministers as well as all his Edinburgh fans. There were speeches, presentations and more than a touch of the Hollywood Academy Awards Ceremony. “But what about the music?” I hear you ask.

Birmingham Royal Ballet brought their Spring Season double bill to the London Coliseum for two days only, on March 13th and 14th. The programme offered two pieces by the English choreographic master Sir Frederick Ashton.

Ravel is one of those composers who seem to slip through the cracks sometimes. I myself am guilty of letting this happen – I know that I like Ravel’s music but often forget how magical it really is. After tonight’s concert, however, I am sure that I’ll never forget this again.

An evening of French music, the notes from Debussy, Ravel and Dutilleux lingered in the sticky summer air long after the concert finished.Making their BBC Proms debut, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBC SSO) and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, conducted by Donald Runnicles with chorus-master Christopher Bell, took command of the stage.

La Orquesta Sinfónica de la SWR brilló con Ravel en una interpretación magistral del ballet Dafnis y Cloe.

Le directeur musical de La Monnaie a dirigé une interprétation inspirée de Daphnis et Chloé, après une très belle lecture du Concerto pour violoncelle n° 1 de Saint-Saëns avec Julia Hagen.

En associant des extraits de la « symphonie dramatique » de Berlioz et de la « symphonie chorégraphique » de Ravel, le chef italien et la phalange lyonnaise ont produit un programme mitigé.

Sous le titre berliozien Des milliers de sublimités, le festival de La Côte-Saint-André proposait cette semaine une programmation riche et passionnante, à la fois ambitieuse et abordable.

Den Aufführenden gelang eine neuerlich herzerfüllende Präsentation jahrhunderteübergreifender Tänze auf den Instrumenten der jeweiligen Zeit, wobei Véronique Gens mit ihrer zeitlosen Ausstrahlung beeindruckte.

Remplaçant Jean-Yves Thibaudet, le pianiste tchèque Lukáš Vondráček propose une expérience singulière dans un Concerto n° 2 de Rachmaninov tout en relief, avant un Daphnis coloré par les Wiener Symphoniker. 

Esa-Pekka Salonen enfile une double casquette de chef-compositeur et présente son œuvre Karawane avant d'enchaîner au podium pour une grande version de Daphnis et Chloé de Ravel avec l'Orchestre de Paris.

Man kann sich kaum entscheiden, was nun das Highlight des Konzerts in der Philharmonie sein soll.

Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris célèbre Maurice Ravel et les liens qui unissent le compositeur à la danse, à travers deux œuvres composées pour le ballet : Daphnis et Chloé et le célèbre Boléro.

Retour sur le premier concert de la série « Symphonie » de l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, entièrement dédié à Ravel.