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Intimate and powerful, Fischer's performance with Camerata Salzburg feels like a match made in heaven. 

An all-day Beethoven experience European style with both highs and lows: much diversity revealed and exploited but of variable quality.

Bracing and emotionally direct performances from the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Nicole Car, in a carefully-planned programme.

Serebrier and the ECO deliver fine performances of Haydn, Beethoven and Vaughan Williams.  

An enthralling account of Brahms’ Fourth Symphony by Itzhak Perlman and the San Francisco Symphony.

Though often played with far greater forces, the Beethoven and Mendelssohn played in this concert were well suited to the small size and immediacy of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Directed energetically from the leader’s chair by Joshua Bell, they gave crisp and clear performances which highlighted the chamber-style aspects of these works.