Ludovic Morlot's fourth season with the Seattle Symphony launches with a mini-Dvořák festival, some plush Wagner, and an ear-opening take on a Tchaikovsky warhorse featuring pianist Daniil Trifonov in his SSO debut.
At the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival, Gianandrea Noseda leads the Teatro Regio Torino in a concert performance of Rossini's William Tell that offers enormous variety without quite hitting the bull's eye.
Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra explore musical perspectives on youthfulness and memory with a programme of Schubert's Fifth and the songs of innocence and experience woven into Mahler's Fourth.
A trio, quintet, and septet add up to an impressive range of emotional and timbral explorations in the concluding concert of Seattle's summer chamber music festival.
For their final season concert, Morlot leads the Seattle Symphony in an ambitious programme of all three of Stravinsky's pre-WWI scores for the Ballets Russes.
Leading the Seattle Symphony in an all-French program, Ludovic Morlot takes subtle risks that pay off splendidly in one of the centrepiece events of a nationwide orchestral summit.
James MacMillan’s The Death of Oscar receives its American première under Stéphane Denève, while Paul Lewis is the soloist in a thought-provoking account of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 3.
The Seattle Symphony's all-Russian program presents the U.S. première of the richly mysterious Night Butterflies piano concerto by Russian emigre composer Alexander Raskatov.
