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Andris Nelsons shapes a Tanglewood evening of introspective reflections featuring music from Bach to Mahler.

Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic open their “Mahler Grooves” festival, featuring Simon Keenlyside and Ekaterina Gubanova in Des Knaben Wunderhorn. 

Oramo leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra and trumpeter Verneri Pohjola in a moving tribute to Kaija Saariaho with the UK premiere of her concerto HUSH. 

Piano transcriptions of symphonic Mahler and Beethoven anchor an outstanding evening at Carnegie Hall. 

Under Markus Stenz, the Philharmonia Zürich orchestra give stunning performances of works by Strauss, Bartók, and Mahler in the city’s historic opera house.

The RLPO impresses in a sensitive concert staging of Bartók's operatic masterpiece, with intense singing from Károly Szemerédy and Adrienn Miksch.

The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester performs works by Lang, Pärt, Stravinsky and Mahler under music director, Robin Ticciati. 

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra excels in the bleakest of times for Mahler and Shostakovich under chief conductor Jaap van Zweden.

Thomas Søndergård's Bruckner sound with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra leaves one hungry for more.

In a fin de siècle programme, Salonen and the Philharmonia demonstrated visceral excitement, and found ways to reinvent. 

Ater seven years at the helm and a controversial early departure, Thomas Hengelbrock gives his final concerts as principal conductor of the oldest German radio orchestra.

Two monumental works by Rzewski and Mahler performed with intensity, drama and authority by Igor Levit in a concert celebrating Frederic Rzewski's 80th birthday.

A program juxtaposing music by Mahler and Berlioz didn't fully convey these musicians' abilities.

This was a most impressive showing from the orchestra and conductor in which the works of three influential composers given emotionally engrossing treatment.

Michael Tilson Thomas is one of the few great Mahlerians active today.

The concluding concert in the Amsterdammers’ brief Barbican residency mixed youthful promise with a programme that seemed to sum up 2016’s angst and fears.

Music by the unhappy couple precedes a bombastic rendition of Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass by the Oslo Philharmonic orchestra and choir under Jukka-Pekka Saraste.

The wide variety of music Vienna has provided over the last couple of centuries was effectively on display here in Auckland.

Like an exquisite insect with a fleetingly brief lifespan, the Aldeburgh World Orchestra has been created as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, and brings together young people from 35 countries across all five continents for a few intense weeks of rehearsal, tutoring and performances under the baton of Sir Mark Elder.

The Aldeburgh World Orchestra, made up of 119 youngsters with 32 different nationalities, only started playing together 3 weeks before this concert. Armed with this knowledge, the expectations of a concert understandably lessen: you expect it to still be good but not brilliant. But the orchestra did end up playing brilliantly, especially in Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 5.

Love may be a familiar feeling, but the passion Aurora Orchestra unleashed at LSO St Luke’s was enough to leave audiences wild with desire. Exploring the darkest undertones of love—anguish, jealousy, remorse and regret—Friday night’s programme, Jealous Guy, was woven together by tango music interspersed with tragic love stories from across musical history.

Pablo González llega a Madrid con su gira por España junto con la Dresdner Philharmonie

El flautista Abraham Sáenz mostró brillantez en el Concierto pastoral de Joaquín Rodrigo y Sylvain Gasançon interpretó Berg y Mahler con una sensibilidad idiomática.

Werke von Brahms, Mahler, Schubert und Prokofjew verband Igor Levit in Baden-Baden zu einem einem spannungsreichen Programm.

La orquesta de la NDR alemana sumergió al público de la sala Argenta de Santander en un mar de emociones que fluyeron desde la inconclusa y dramática Décima de Mahler, hasta la bucólica segunda sinfonía de Brahms, pasando por una selección de lieder del compositor vienés.

Aparecieron fantasmas en el escenario del Teatro Real; espectros, salidos de la batuta de Gustavo Dudamel e instalados entre los miembros de la Filarmónica de Viena, que nos condujeron entre los sueños narcóticos de un joven romántico francés y la insondable angustia del que fue director del conjunto vienés. 

La OFCM nos ofreció un interesante programa de grandes orquestadores: Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Ravel y Mahler.

Jochen Schmeckenbecher und das ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien unter der Leitung von Cornelius Meister gratulieren Friedrich Cerha musikalisch zum 90. Geburtstag.

No fue una noche exitosa para Portal ni para la orquesta. Desde la primera obra escuchamos una orquesta dirigida inapropiadamente