En vivo, Video: Buscador de críticas de conciertos de música clásica, ópera, ballet y danza | Sinfonía núm. 31 en re mayor, "París", K297 (K300a)

Janine Jansen joins the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for Prokofiev in a brilliantly conceived programme ending with Bartók’s ebullient Concerto for Orchestra. 

An over-enthusiastic audience distracts from an excellent performance of Mozart's Requiem Mass by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Choir with a first class quartet of soloists.

Le pianiste chinois a proposé un Concerto n° 2 de Saint-Saëns aux allures de « Offenbach chez Disney » ; quant au directeur musical de l'Orchestre de Paris, il a montré tout son art de la direction d'orchestre.

Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen zauberte unter der Leitung von Paavo Järvi gemeinsam mit Daniil Trifonov Freude ins Große Festspielhaus.

Cheerful energy and exploding fireworks in the ACO's Sydney programme, if lacking in a little repose. 

Bookending a new harpsichord concerto from Gavin Bryars for the renowned virtuoso Mahan Esfahani, two underrated symphonies are given highly commendable performances in Liverpool.

Pour ce premier concert de 2022, la pandémie n'a pas manqué de se rappeler à chacun. Au Parvis, l'ONCT, Aylen Pritchin et Maxim Emelyanychev ont dû réinventer le programme de la soirée !

Cédric Tiberghien and Carlos Kalmar dispel the gloom with performances to delight the ear. 

Le nouveau directeur musical de l'Opéra national de Paris Gustavo Dudamel peine à conférer à cette première série symphonique avec l'orchestre l'élan et la vivacité nécessaires. 

Jonathan Cohen embarks on his tenure as Music Director of the Quebec City chamber orchestra Les Violins du Roy.

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Douglas Boyd offer colour, energy and sparkle while Steven Osborne demonstrates a sure touch in one of his favourite concertos.

A charming programme featuring Renaud Capuçon and Gérard Caussé in the Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, one of Mozart’s most sublime, sun-drenched works. 

An evening of French music in Tokyo, the highlight of which was a rare performance of Albéric Magnard's Fourth Symphony. 

John Casken's intriguing new work for trombone and orchestra presents a musical interpretation of a Michelangelo drawing, along with superb Mozart and powerful Prokofiev. 

“Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin.” Storytime with the Aurora Orchestra proved a delight. 

James Levine’s excellent CSO appearance included a first half juxtaposing Mozart and Schoenberg anchored by a memorable Symphonie fantastique, and even a tribute to the victorious Chicago Cubs.

La 7e symphonie de Bruckner et la Symphonie concertante de Mozart pour hautbois, clarinette, cor et basson, deux oeuvres à la recherche de la luminosité, avec la Staatskapelle Berlin sous la baguette de Barenboim.

The orchestra's principal cellist Mark Kosower gave a performance of Haydn's Concerto in C notable for its transparency and grace at this late summer Blossom Festival concert.

Three concertos and a symphony; three soloists and an ever-expanding chamber orchestra; the SCO in Stravinsky, Mozart and Beethoven.

Every city has its favourites, and Jan Lisiecki is Montreal’s darling. There was a sense of proprietary pride in the audience as he strode across the stage at the Maison Symphonique, to join Kazushi Ono and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal.

The première of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées was a roaring success, literally. There was such commotion among the audience that the dancers could hardly hear the music, despite the determined effort of conductor Pierre Monteaux to keep going.

There are the knowns. The things, as Rumsfeld would have it, that we know that we know. Like the way the Aurora orchestra can bring sheer youthful exuberance to a fast piece like the G Major presto finale to the symphony No.27 which ended the first half of last night's all-Mozart concert at Kings Place. Aurora don't just survive at these breakneck tempi, they absolutely thrive on them.