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Lera Auerbach's Icarus serves up lots of flavours without much meat, but the RSNO's new principal cello makes a first class soloist debut with them in Shostakovich.

The RPO, in great form under Petrenko, deliver exciting Auerbach and propulsive Elgar, with Lugansky shining bright in Rachmaninov. 

The youthful phenomenon mesmerises his Montreal audience in Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto. 

Laura van der Heijden offered a deeply felt account of Walton's Cello Concerto, followed by a rare UK performance of Copland's Symphony no. 3.

The Philadelphia Orchestra's principal guest conductor offered a typically diverse program of Stravinsky, Peter Lieberson and Lera Auerbach.

Twenty-first century Stockholm or fin de siècle Paris? Works by Ravel, Debussy and Schmitt take the audience back to the times of the French avant-garde.

Joana Mallwitz und die Staatsphilharmonie glänzen in Auerbach, Mozart und Tschaikowsky.