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Nicola Benedetti’s Elgar is a slow burn in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, but Kirill Karabits’ Firebird instantly ignites.

As gifts to the Philarmonia's 80th birthday season, Nicola Benedetti gives a barnstorming account of Elgar's Violin Concerto before Cristian Mӑcelaru gets emotionally drained by La Mer.

Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO give an aimless, flabby account of Elgar’s Violin Concerto, but a rambunctious reading of Walton is filled with delirious joy. 

In an evening pairing two English classics, Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symhony Orchestra in Elgar’s Violin Concerto and an out-of-this-world account of Holst’s The Planets. 

Julia Fischer ends her London Philharmonic Orchestra spring residency with Elgar's Violin Concerto and a chamber encore which sees Jurowski turn to the piano.

Elgar's Violin Concerto is at the heart of Vasily Petrenko's first Royal Festival Hall concert since becoming the RPO's Music Director. 

An all-Elgar affair by the SSO directed by its Principal Guest Conductor Andrew Litton was not so much a distant memory of colonialism but rather an exercise in nostalgia.

On the page this is less orchestration, more job creation scheme.

The Lithuanian conductor made Beethoven really sing while violinist, Vilde Frang's spirited interpretation of Elgar's Violin Concerto did not seem quite the finished article.

The RSNO season begins with The Rite which ignites… eventually.

Pinchas Zukerman never quite gets to grips with Elgar's concerto, and the Berlin Philharmonic take a while to get to the heart of Tchaikovsky's Fifth. 

Violinist James Ehnes and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on breathtaking form in an immense, virtuosic programme of Elgar, Respighi, Britten and Berlioz.

Sir Andrew Davis lead the BBC Philharmonic along “The Mancunian Way” and down to Salisbury Plain for Vaughan Williams' Ninth Symphony. 

Everyone has their favourite movement in Holst’s Planets suite. Whether it be the percussive ferocity of “Mars, the Bringer of War”, the contrasting tranquillity of “Venus, the Bringer of Peace” or the joviality of “Jupiter”, there is something in The Planets for everyone.

On paper, Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche seems a non sequitur to choral and orchestral works by Elgar and Grainger. In Proms 24, Elgar’s part-song There is sweet music and Violin Concerto in B minor were at home next to Grainger’s setting of Londonderry Air and likeable In a Nutshell suite.

Le violoniste allemand et l'orchestre de la capitale se sont montrés particulièrement fusionnels dans le Concerto d'Elgar, avec un excellent Dima Slobodeniouk officiant à la baguette.

Dans le rare Concerto d'Elgar, la violoniste se hisse à la hauteur des monstres sacrés de l'histoire de son instrument. Quant à la phalange berlinoise, elle se montre superlative dans la Deuxième Symphonie de Sibelius.

Lors de deux soirées de clôture grandioses, le futur chef principal de l'orchestre anglais a créé un ascenseur émotionnel rarement vécu de mémoire de spectateur.

Die Wiener Philharmoniker sind zu Gast in der Alten Oper Frankfurt und glänzen mit Virtuosität und Perfektion.

Sous les mains de Vilde Frang, un concerto d'Elgar à la fois lyrique et énergique, noble et pathétique, sage et tourmentée. La symphonie alpestre de Strauss souffre de manque de nuances dynamiques.

Con el complejo Concierto para violín de Elgar en las exquisitas manos de Frank Peter Zimmermann y la brillantez de la música de Stravinsky, la Sinfonica de Galicia concluyó la presente temporada.

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla et les musiciens du City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ont manqué de trébucher dans Schumann mais ont porté Elgar au sommet avec Vilde Frang.

Zubin Mehta, Pinchas Zukerman und die Berliner Philharmoniker begeistern mit erfrischendem Elgar und packendem Tschaikowsky.