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Effortless Brahms and rich Sibelius from Sado and the Tonkünstler-Orchester, with elegant Mozart from Yeol Eum Son at Cadogan Hall.  

Mozart's “Elvira Madigan” Piano Concerto is played with grace and style by Benjamin Grosvenor; Andrey Boreyko and LPO gives gripping accounts of Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. 

While Uchida’s performances showcase remarkable precision and refinement, they occasionally feel restrained, leaving room to explore the improvisatory charm that make Mozart’s music so compelling.

After Christopher Cerrone’s The Insects Became Magnetic, Giorgi Gigashvili’s Mozart and a searing Tchaikovsky symphony make for an uplifting Manchester matinee. 

Rossini, Mozart and a rare symphony by Kalliwoda display programming diversity that is both interesting and sophisticated. 

Inon Barnatan and Robert Spano perform a taut Mozart piano concerto in Atlanta.

An evening in which the piano – in some cases two, in others three – took centre-stage with members of the Osokins family.

Missy Mazzoli's double bass concerto receives its UK premiere as part of Kings Place's Venus Unwrapped season. 

The LMP celebrates Mozart – and their 70th birthday – in Sheffield. 

This afternoon Vassily Sinaisky was in charge of the CBSO for a matinee performance which began with Wagner’s overture, ended with a Sibelius symphony and had siphoned between them an ever-popular piano concerto by Mozart.

In what was a non-textbook performance of Bruckner, Oramo achieved a performance of utmost thrill, replete with clarity and conviction.

The Mostly Mozart Festival ended its season with an all-Mozart program centered on the Requiem. Paired with that was a piano concerto with Stephen Hough and the rarely-heard Meistermusik.

Radu Lupu produces Mozart so sublime as to delight the angels, Saraste and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra give us a lesson in poise, balance and blended sound.

The CBSO chose a programme that was ostensibly simple, but proved to be deceptively difficult.  

Concertgoers defying sub-zero temperatures in Boston were rewarded with one of the fastest Beethoven Fifths anyone in Symphony Hall is likely to hear.

After Jan Lisiecki gave an immaculate interpretation of a perennial Mozart piano concerto, Sebastian Weigle revelled in the brassy bravura of a symphony which remains virtually unknown in the city where it was composed over a hundred years ago.

After hearing three exhilarating and razor-sharp Philharmonia concerts this season under Esa-Pekka Salonen and Jakub Hrůša, this performance with regular guest conductor Yuri Temirkanov felt decidedly “Old School”.

Since the days of Charles Munch and Serge Koussevitzky, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has always excelled in rendering the characteristics of the French musical idiom. 

Thielemann and the Dresden Staatskapelle show that they are world class; Daniil Trifonov shows total mastery of his instrument in Mozart.

Fazıl Say dazzles as both composer and soloist with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. 

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra began its latest London residency with an impressive concert of Strauss and Mozart.

A starry night at the Hollywood Bowl for Gustavo Dudamel, Alice Sara Ott, Miah Persson, Gerald Finley and the LA Phil to perform Mozart.

Nikolay Khozyainov charms in a jolly rendition of Mozart's K467 while Gerhard Markson and NSO give a profound rendition of Mahler's Ninth Symphony.

The pure joy that Mozart’s music can bring was emphasized in the Zurich Chamber Orchestra's concert at Cadogan Hall in London, featuring pianist Jonathan Biss and conducted by Sir Roger Norrington.

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. 

St Aldhelm's Orchestra, conducted by Ian Lowes, gave a rare performance of Bruckner's Symphony no. 0, effectively capturing this early work's symphonic span.

“Music from three centuries comes together in tonight’s concert,” declare the programme notes to the Hong Kong Sinfonietta performance at the Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall. Indeed it surveyed the best and most famous in the classical canon. What caught my attention, however, was the opening work: Frates by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.

Some musicians have criticised Mozart’s music for being facile, almost too perfect, some even claiming that it lacks emotional depth. However it is difficult to accept this when listening to Mozart performed by pianist Stephen Hough. It is music which sparkles and glistens much like the water in the harbour surrounding Sydney Opera House, or that is usually the case.

Le pianiste japonais a livré une interprétation joueuse et virevoltante du Concerto pour piano n° 21 de Mozart, avant que le Philhar' ne s'attaque à une Septième Symphonie de Bruckner conquérante.

Dans un programme allant de MacMillan à Chostakovitch en passant par Mozart, le chef russe, le pianiste français et l'orchestre francilien ont ébloui le public de l'Espace Carpeaux.

Klangfülle, Leidenschaft und starke Kontraste – unter der begeisternden Leitung von Omer Meir Wellber wuchsen die Wiener beim letzten Konzert ihrer Europatournee in Amsterdam über sich hinaus.

La Coréenne de Salzbourg remporte le premier prix à l'issue d'une finale lors de laquelle le jeune Nikolay Biryukov, 14 ans, s'est distingué dans le Concerto de Robert Schumann.

La Real Filharmonía de Galicia acompañó cálidamente al pianista Fazil Say en un viaje por una interpretación auténtica e imaginativa.

Le festival Piano Pic fêtait, en 2022, sa vingt-cinquième édition. Le jeune pianiste Jonathan Fournel était placé au cœur du concert de clôture.

El octogenario Ashkenazy, a la batuta de la prestigiosa Philharmonia Orchestra, ofreció un concierto que irradió destellos de maestría y que contó con la presencia de la solista Elena Bashkirova.

„Meine Wunderharfe“, so nannte Richard Wagner liebevoll die Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, der er Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts für kurze Zeit als Kapellmeister vorstand. Diesem wohlklingenden Beinamen sollte das Dresdner Ausnahmeorchester am 11.9. im Münchener Gasteig wieder einmal alle Ehre machen.Das Konzert begann mit dem berückend schönen Klavierkonzert Nr.

Sous le caractère abordable des concertos de Mozart se cache un enjeu de taille : seule une exécution parfaitement limpide permet de restituer la présence sacrée du compositeur à son piano. Dans un programme où Mozart dramaturge était partout présent, l'interprétation de Jean-Claude Pennetier invitait à la foi et à l'optimisme.

Rudolf Buchbinder zeigte ein weiteres Mal, welch bestaunensswerte Interpretation aus langjähriger Quellenforschung erwächst. 

Le 27ème concerto pour piano, en sandwich entre deux mastards symphoniques. Pires dont la justesse de ton n'a d'égal que la discrétion s'est jointe à son partenaire de longue date, Riccardo Chailly, pour une demi-heure de très grande musique.