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Thomas Søndergård and the CBSO take a cool, cursory approach to music by Strauss, Thomas Adès and Brahms, resulting in an occasionally powerful but ultimately skin-deep performance. 

British composer Thomas Adès conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in a custom-made programme, also featuring Pekka Kuusisto's hypnotic violin-playing.

A performance Vaughan Williams' Job to truly cherish, with Manze using all his experience to produce a mature and thrilling account of this masterpiece.

The Aurora Orchestra and Collon engage audiences new and old with infectiously joyful Mozart and intensely virtuosic Adès, with Pekka Kuusisto.

A new work by Anthony Cheung based on the Orpheus legend and thrilling excerpts from Wagner’s Götterdämmerung rounded out this week’s program.

The Philharmonia, conducted by Nicholas Collon, perform two masterpieces by Britten and Vaughan Williams and a newer work by Thomas Adès.

At this concert we were treated to three completely different works which showcased the orchestra in a variety of styles and colours.

Orchestral concerts bookended by Adès and Elgar are nothing new in Britain, but despite both composers being performed with increasing regularity in Vienna over the last few years, this event – to my knowledge – was the first to place them side by side.

I had extremely high expectations for this evening of music at the Concertgebouw; I’m a huge Thomas Adès fan and ever since I’d seen Leila Josefowicz play Esa-Pekka Salonen’s violin concerto I was more than impressed with her. Three Dutch premières of Thomas Adès’s music, as well as his debut as a conductor for the Concertgebouworkest certainly made an inspiring billing.