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Four very pictographic pieces: from early Puccini, through Dukas and Stravinsky to the present-day Spanish composer Francisco Coll. Neatly painted by the performers and with nothing to unduly scare the horses.

Kensho Watanabe and Élisabeth Pion prove they're up to the challenge in a programme featuring Lūcija Garūta's Piano Concerto and Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony.

A programme of French music culminates in a heartfelt Fauré Requiem with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir. 

Daniele Rustioni conducts a programme of orchestral favourites and a concerto rarity featuring cellist Alban Gerhardt.

A programme of orchestral showpieces are given the John Wilson treatment, although Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances disappoints. 

There is little doubt that the combination of Vasily Petrenko and the RPO is currently yielding magnificent results. Daniel Müller-Schott joined them for a performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto.

Mark Elder brought the Hallé down to the Royal Albert Hall for an interesting programme of Dukas, Respighi and Puccini.

Boris Giltburg joins The Hallé for Rachmaninov's Fourth Piano Concerto, the emotional heart of the evening.

Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges made up for an uneven first half that jumped from Mozart to Harry Potter.

It’s been 97 years since The Cleveland Orchestra performed Frank Bridge’s The Sea, but this weekend’s performance was worth the wait. Paul Dukas’s evergreen The Sorcerer’s Apprentice received a precise and jovial performance.

What a day to hear an all-French programme, and with this fragile moment at its heart criticism feels futile, disrespectful even.

On tour with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mikko Franck and Sol Gabetta present an odd programme of mixed fare.

RLPO debutante Kahchun Wong makes a distinctive first impression in a programme of iconic works from the 20th century.

Paavo Järvi gave a real sense of occasion to the evening, though the Berlioz neither embraced frenzy nor nodded to the fantastical. 

The Belgrade Philhamonic presented a magical concert of music on supernatural themes.   

A thrilling concert by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conducted by Sir Mark Elder culminated in a sinister and atmospheric performance of Duke Bluebeard's Castle.

Rafael Payare contrasts a stentorian Brahms Symphony 4 with colorful French scores, including a scintillating Shéhérazade.

Notwithstanding Esfahani and McKeish’s sterling account of the Poulenc and the orchestra’s thrilling take on The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, this was not a consistent enough concert to be called a complete success.

The Hallé brings its Nottingham concert season to an end with a programme of popular French and Russian works.  

Charles Dutoit's mostly Spanish program was highlighted by two major scores of Manuel de Falla.

Much-loved favourites wrapped around an assured early Beethoven piano concerto with Elisabeth Leonskaja.

It is a wonderful thing to hear the full range and colour of a symphony orchestra used to its full effect during the course of an evening's programme and tonight the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo showed the diversity, versatility and sheer joy which for me really brings the music to life.

Former Hong Kong Philharmonic Music Director David Atherton returned to his hometown on Saturday to lead the orchestra in a concert entitled “The King of Instruments”, a reference to works on the programme involving the organ, an instrument rarely heard in the symphony hall.

With the official season at a close, the San Francisco Symphony’s “Summer and the Symphony” is well underway with a collection of concerts designed to attract and welcome all audiences. Friday night’s offering was a collaboration with circus troupe Cirque Musica, partnering classical and popular repertoire with a variety of dazzling cirque acts.

Paul Dukas' success rests almost exclusively upon his symphonic scherzo L'apprenti sorcier ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice").