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Daniele Gatti and Kirill Gerstein offer fresh, invigorating takes on two warhorses with the Staatskapelle Dresden. 

Robin Ticciati and the LPO take a fresh look at some very familiar works by Schumann and Mahler on their visit to Gateshead. 

Rafael Payare, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Daniil Trifonov warm up Berlin audiences with a high-temperature concert at the Philharmonie.

A pair of thrilling performances at the BBC Proms, neither of which bear any trace of the routine, that will live long in the memory

In his Carnegie Hall debut, the young Czech conductor leads a meaty and memorable program of Brahms and Wagner, with joined by Hélène Grimaud for Robert Schumann’s sole Piano Concerto.

Sumptuous Wagner and effortless Mahler from the Bayrisches Staatsorchester, cleanly expressive Schumann from Yefim Bronfman and richly communicative singing from Louise Alder. 

Iván Fischer brings his Budapest band to the BBC Proms in an evening of many surprises, with a convincing Schumann Piano Concerto from Sir András Schiff.

Donald Runnicles demonstrates his superior musicianship in a warm, intelligently crafted reading of Brahms' Symphony no. 2 in D major, with Andrea Lam as a sensitive and reserved soloist in Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto.

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s polarised approach exaggerates music by Weinberg and Prokofiev, while Kirill Gerstein keeps control in a refreshing, elegant performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto.

Víkingur Ólafsson's appearance may have been most anticipated, but it is Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances that impresses most as the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner make a welcome return to Antwerp.

Returning to the concert platform after recent illness, Argerich demonstrates why she's still the reigning pianist in Lucerne's “Le Piano symphonique” festival. 

Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Dawson's first appearance in a subscription concert just this week, programmed alongside Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto with rising soloist Tony Siqi Yun.

Víkingur Ólafsson proves a sensational replacement for Daniel Barenboim with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor. 

The last conductor to have led such a superb account of Rachmaninov's Third Symphony was quite possibly its composer.

The fourth edition of the festival marks the 800th anniversary of the founding of Klosters with a musical journey back in time. 

The octogenarian phenomenon that is Martha Argerich still has something different to say about Schumann's Piano Concerto, while Sylvain Cambreling adopts a bright and breezy approach to Schubert's Ninth Symphony.

Jan Lisiecki joins the LPO for Schumann's Piano Concerto, the centrepiece between works by Grieg and Sibelius.

A trio of Romantic works are performed under the baton of Giancarlo Guerrero, making his Philharmonic debut alongside pianist Alessio Bax.

An all-Schumann programme at the Philharmonie de Paris, pairing the Second Symphony with his popular Piano Concerto. 

World premiere of Daniel Kellogg's The Golden Spike with the Kansas City Symphony.

Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra fills the Royal Albert Hall, while Schumann’s piano concerto is followed by MacMillan’s masterpiece The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. 

The 31-year-old Assistant Conductor approached a program of Beethoven, Weber and Schumann with confidence and a forceful hand.

When did three such luminaries last grace the same concert, let alone the same first half?

Eighteen years ago Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain took a huge gamble by appointing the youthful local Yannick Néget- Séguin as its Music Director. Now, when the Maestro returns to conduct in his native city, a lovefest ensues.

Pianist Alice Sara Ott and the Dresden Philharmonic at the Cologne Philharmonic

Jonathan Bloxham steps in for a presumably unwell Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla with the CBSO in Cardiff. 

Daniil Trifonov is clearly still finding his feet in Schumann's concerto but Mariss Jansons proves a sure guide through Bruckner's underrated Sixth.

For this program, Sir András Schiff chose only works belonging to composers for whom he feels a real affinity.

The program focused on the essential role that Clara Wieck-Schumann had in the artistic development of both Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

Sir Andrew Davis led the BBC SO in a recreation of Sir Malcolm Sargent's 500th Prom, a lengthy programme that failed to inspire.

Continuing the 'German Romantic' series, Steffens and the Philharmonia gave an indulgent performance, culminating in a thrilling account of Brahms' Third.

Dignified and intellectual Wagner, Schumann and Mendelssohn with the Hong Kong Phil.

Fluidity defines Daniil Trifonov's style, even while he navigates different realities.

Take an overture from the Classical period, add a Romantic concerto and finish with a major work from the 20th century – a tried and proven concoction for a balanced orchestral concert. If these works follow a chronological order and become increasingly longer, so much the better.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, its Music Director Charles Dutoit, Principal Guest Conductor Pinchas Zukerman and Martha Argerich party in style with Rossini, Schumann, Bruch and Stravinsky.

A mixed bag from the Brussels Phil on their UK tour, with César Franck's Symphony proving the highlight. 

Guest Conductor Lothar Zagrosek leads a solid, if uninspired, performance of 19th-century Romantic music with piano soloist Javier Perianes and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

The RPO play a contrasting programme of two dark symphonies by Sibelius and Tchaikovsky, with the Georgian panist Khatia Buniatishvili as the soloist in the Schumann concerto.

A few days before, the local newspaper rather hyped this concert - with good reason, as it turns out.

A memorable programme of Schumann from Bernard Haitink and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. 

A truly revelatory performance of Schumann's Piano Concerto, with freshly bold and uncluttered readings of Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and Scottish Symphony from András Schiff and the OAE.

As this visiting orchestra from Saxony reached the closing stages of their 2 week UK tour they still had some terrific commitment and punch to their sound.

The Philharmonia Orchestra celebrated its 70th birthday with a gala comprising Schumann’s Piano Concerto and Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, conducted by the orchestra's Honorary Conductor for Life, Christoph von Dohnányi

A valiant attempt by Hong Kong Sinfonietta at Sibelius' demanding Fourth Symphony.

Royal Northern Sinfonia and their Music Director designate Lars Vogt brought the idyllic side of Romanticism to Sage Gateshead last night, revelling in luxurious textures and melodies that sang of happy, fulfilled love for family.

Andris Nelsons' Birmingham Bruckner is a thing of beauty to follow Stephen Hough's masterly Schumann Piano Concerto.

Martha Argerich makes a triumphant return in her first concert with the Berlin Philharmonic in seven years. 

This was a clever and enjoyable concert built around anniversaries – Panufnik at 100 and Richard Strauss at the grand old age of 150. Despite the two composers being miles apart in approach and style the structures of their two pieces, a single movement building to central climax, were revealed as being similar.

The Iceland Symphony Orchestra give an assured performance in their debut concert at the Proms, most successfully in the new compositions of their compatriots.