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The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin delivers an exciting concert of early Classical works from Mozart, Haydn, Gluck and Telemann.

It's likely that Mozart never actually heard his Clarinet Concerto performed. That fate, happily, has not been shared by Michael Gordon, who has heard Peter Whelan perform his new bassoon concerto Observations on Air four times this week. 

Prom 39 at the Royal Albert Hall presented a highly unique programme spanning 250 years of classical music, with Rameau, Rands, Mozart and Strauss who all celebrate a milestone this year.

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.

Verdi and Wagner may be turning 200 in 2013, but certainly that doesn’t make their music any more or less worth celebrating than it was last year, or will be in five years’ time.

The performance of four symphonies in one evening is a rare occurrence, and an interesting feat of programming. The BBC Philharmonic explored the development of the symphonic form from the succint, formal classicism of Haydn and Mozart to the broad romanticism of Brahms, via Prokofiev’s witty take on the classical form.

Das Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble und Katahrina Konradi ließen den vollmundigen Geschmack von Empfindsamkeit und jungem wie spätem Feuer der Leidenschaft auf Zunge und Herz zergehen.

Rares sont les programmes à afficher une cohérence musicale forte. Ici l'ONCT, amené par le chef invité Rinaldo Alessandrini, suivait le fil simple mais au combien efficace du discours chronologique. 

Ein Abend voller Nummer Einsen, so sieht das Debüt von Dirigent Andrés Orozco-Estrada im Großen Festspielhaus aus. Mit viel Witz und Charme dirigiert er die Wiener Philharmoniker durch Erste Sinfonien von Schubert, Mozart und Elliott Carter und bringt frischen Wind ins Programm der Mozartwoche.