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A programme heavily skewed to the balletic saw the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Josep Pons dispatch difficult passages with ease.

Dukas, Barber, Hindemith and Shchedrin in an intriguing 20th-century programme from the Singapore Symphony. 

Four very pictographic pieces: from early Puccini, through Dukas and Stravinsky to the present-day Spanish composer Francisco Coll. Neatly painted by the performers and with nothing to unduly scare the horses.

Kensho Watanabe and Élisabeth Pion prove they're up to the challenge in a programme featuring Lūcija Garūta's Piano Concerto and Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony.

A programme of French music culminates in a heartfelt Fauré Requiem with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir. 

Daniele Rustioni conducts a programme of orchestral favourites and a concerto rarity featuring cellist Alban Gerhardt.

A programme of orchestral showpieces are given the John Wilson treatment, although Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances disappoints. 

There is little doubt that the combination of Vasily Petrenko and the RPO is currently yielding magnificent results. Daniel Müller-Schott joined them for a performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto.

Mark Elder brought the Hallé down to the Royal Albert Hall for an interesting programme of Dukas, Respighi and Puccini.

A night to remember for Montreal orchestral music devotees as Daniil Trifonov joins the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and conductor Rafael Payare.

Domingo Hindoyan continues to bring French orchestral rarities, and conducts a Russian symphony in a Sunday matinee to a highly receptive Liverpool audience. 

Boris Giltburg joins The Hallé for Rachmaninov's Fourth Piano Concerto, the emotional heart of the evening.

Simon Rattle continues his European travels, returning to the Philharmonie im Gasteig for a fine programme with the outstanding Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. 

Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges made up for an uneven first half that jumped from Mozart to Harry Potter.

It’s been 97 years since The Cleveland Orchestra performed Frank Bridge’s The Sea, but this weekend’s performance was worth the wait. Paul Dukas’s evergreen The Sorcerer’s Apprentice received a precise and jovial performance.

What a day to hear an all-French programme, and with this fragile moment at its heart criticism feels futile, disrespectful even.

On tour with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mikko Franck and Sol Gabetta present an odd programme of mixed fare.

RLPO debutante Kahchun Wong makes a distinctive first impression in a programme of iconic works from the 20th century.

The Berlin Philharmonic gives a first half party before a dark Schmidt symphony. 

Paavo Järvi gave a real sense of occasion to the evening, though the Berlioz neither embraced frenzy nor nodded to the fantastical. 

Yuja Wang brings brilliance to Prokofiev at the Philharmonie, but Petrenko's conducting of rarities by Dukas and Schmidt also prove richly rewarding.

The Belgrade Philhamonic presented a magical concert of music on supernatural themes.   

A thrilling concert by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conducted by Sir Mark Elder culminated in a sinister and atmospheric performance of Duke Bluebeard's Castle.

Rafael Payare contrasts a stentorian Brahms Symphony 4 with colorful French scores, including a scintillating Shéhérazade.

Notwithstanding Esfahani and McKeish’s sterling account of the Poulenc and the orchestra’s thrilling take on The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, this was not a consistent enough concert to be called a complete success.

A superb performance from Chloë Hanslip in the world premiere of Berkeley's Violin Concerto, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Jac van Steen polished but lacking bite in Dukas and Prokofiev.

The Hallé brings its Nottingham concert season to an end with a programme of popular French and Russian works.  

Charles Dutoit's mostly Spanish program was highlighted by two major scores of Manuel de Falla.

Vladimir Jurowski led the London Philharmonic Orchestra on a musical trip around Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Alan Holley's Oboe Concerto formed the centrepiece of Miguel Harth-Bedoya's Sydney Symphony programme. 

While Glass' latest music has managed to package and sell a form of experimentalism to the masses, it also sparks debate about style versus substance.

Much-loved favourites wrapped around an assured early Beethoven piano concerto with Elisabeth Leonskaja.

It is a wonderful thing to hear the full range and colour of a symphony orchestra used to its full effect during the course of an evening's programme and tonight the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo showed the diversity, versatility and sheer joy which for me really brings the music to life.

Arcomis is a Cardiff-based organisation concerned with the promotion and commissioning of new music. Modest yet effective, most of their work is at an essential grass-root level, yet, seemingly out of nowhere, they have conjured an incredibly bold and wide-ranging three-day festival of brass based at Cardiff’s St David’s Hall, the Cardiff University Music Department and the Royal Welsh College of

Former Hong Kong Philharmonic Music Director David Atherton returned to his hometown on Saturday to lead the orchestra in a concert entitled “The King of Instruments”, a reference to works on the programme involving the organ, an instrument rarely heard in the symphony hall.

With the official season at a close, the San Francisco Symphony’s “Summer and the Symphony” is well underway with a collection of concerts designed to attract and welcome all audiences. Friday night’s offering was a collaboration with circus troupe Cirque Musica, partnering classical and popular repertoire with a variety of dazzling cirque acts.

Paul Dukas' success rests almost exclusively upon his symphonic scherzo L'apprenti sorcier ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice").

Dans un programme remarquablement construit en forme d'hommages en série, le jeune pianiste a fait montre d'un toucher subtil et d'une belle maîtrise de langages riches et variés.

Cristian Măcelaru und die Pianistin Beatrice Rana begeistern mit Ravels Klavierkonzert sowie weiteren französischen Klassikern.

Si l'excellente surprise est venue de la clarinettiste Floriane Tardy qui a remplacé Martin Fröst sans broncher, l'ONCT a mis du temps à entrer dans un programme pourtant haut en couleur.

François-Xavier Roth et sa fameuse formation historiquement informée se sont offert en guise de cadeau d'anniversaire un programme riche, coloré et poétique.

Un viaje emocional cargado de contrastes de la mano de Pablo Sainz-Villegas, Andrés Salado y la OEX, fue la constante en las obras Martín y Soler, Rodrigo y Dukas.

Mettant à l'honneur plusieurs œuvres rares, ce programme des Berliner Philharmoniker dirigés par le chef français nous plonge dans un univers mélancolique illuminé par la performance de la violoniste allemande. 

Le programme choisi par Sir George Benjamin pour le DSO nous plonge dans les théories modernes de l’utilisation du son orchestral, de Paul Dukas à Benjamin lui-même, avec le concours efficace de Cédric Tiberghien.

À la Philharmonie, Pascal Rophé emmène l'ONPL dans une passionnante (re)découverte d'Alcyone, cantate méconnue du jeune Ravel, et d'Orion, de Kaija Saariaho. Vadim Repin offre un Bruch sentimental mais imparfait.

El trompetista venezolano Pacho Flores maravilló en su triple faceta de compositor, director e intérprete junto al conjunto de metales de la Filarmónica de Bogotá. 

Alain Altinoglu feierte als designierter Chef des hr-Sinfonieorchesters einen gelungenen Einstand mit französischer Fin-de-Siècle-Musik

À l'Opéra de Nice, Hélène Grimaud réalise une superbe performance dans le Concerto en sol de Ravel et parvient à insuffler élégance et expression à l’orchestre philharmonique de la ville.

Le Théâtre du Capitole accueille pour la première fois et dans une nouvelle production l’unique opéra de Paul Dukas : Ariane et Barbe-Bleue. Dans une mise en scène de Stefano Poda et sous la direction de Pascal Rophé.