En vivo, Video: Buscador de críticas de conciertos de música clásica, ópera, ballet y danza | Hungarian Dance no. 10 in E major

Folk-derived pieces dominate this programme, with Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic traversing Coleridge-Taylor, Brahms and Bartók, and the latest Asian shooting star Bomsori assaying that concerto by Bruch.

Day One of an innovative two-day festival brings a range of orchestral showpieces and contemporary works in a series of one hour concerts. 

If Principal Guest Conductor and Music Director Designate Thomas Dausgaard wore his array of conducting posts as a series of medals on the lapel of his tux, it would weigh him down considerably. 

Picker's succesfully enigmatic premiere of his Opera without Words

Teacher and pupil, Sergei Babayan and Daniil Trifonov, with four hands at two pianos, in a programme of two contrasting halves: Schumann, Schubert and Brahms followed by Rachmaninov. 

Another low-energy second half let down a strong first in the San Francisans' second appearance at the Proms under Michael Tilson Thomas.

Gripped in the clutches of a persistent heatwave, music-loving Angelenos had a difficult choice to make last Thursday. Stay bunkered down in their air-conditioned homes. Or defy the sweltering heat and choking traffic to make the trip to the Hollywood Hills for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s last Hollywood Bowl concert of 2012.