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Well-honed Mozart from Mutter protégée, but Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite steals the show in Singapore. 

Outstanding interpretations of two important 20th-century works based upon pre-existing compositions.

The Cleveland Orchestra string and percussion sections intensify the multi-hued quirkiness of Shchedrin’s 1967 musical love letter to his ballerina wife.

Even when JUNK started doing weird things, it was a great treat to watch the mighty Philadelphia Orchestra play Shchedrin 's score for only the third time in its history.

Birmingham’s finest brought along her own selections to replace François-Xavier Roth's announced programme in this performance at LSO St Luke's.

Jennifer Johnston shone in Respighi's glorious Il tramonto and the RLPO showed off their solo skills in Ginastera's Variaciones concertantes. 

The percussion department of the Orchestre National de France took their turn in the spotlight for Rodion Shchedrin's ballet. 

A concert of ear-catching tunes from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra swept by under the efficient and occasionally uninvolved direction of Kirill Karabits.

A major work going well beyond tango by Astor Piazzolla and a fresh introduction to African-American composer Florence Price highlight a concert that tries a bit too hard to please

The National Theater opens the season with Rodion Shchedrin's searing version of Lolita, with spectacularly disturbing results.

The very talented Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov is an artist whose musicality transcends the mere virtuosic prowess.

A trio of Soviet composers provided thrills and spills in Liverpool, under popular Chief Conductor Vasily Petrenko.

Fresh energy and vibrant comedy marks the Trocks' return to the UK  

Hakhnazaryan’s programme was rich with meaty music.

The UK première of Shchedrin's Dialogues with Shostakovich was followed by powerful Shostakovich. 

How does one condense a Tolstoy epic for the stage? In Anna Karenina, choreographer Alexei Ratmansky focuses on the three central characters, filleting the novel to its bare essentials. 

Rodion Shchedrin's opera mixes singing, choreography and storytelling to lend a potent sacred and mystic overlay to Nikolai Leskov's folk tale.

Ratmansky's outrageously charming screwball comedy for the Mariinsky

Shchedrin’s opera The Enchanted Wanderer is the complete opposite of shocking and director Alexei Stepanyuk’s staging alongside Valery Gergiev’s command over the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra revealed something of a translucid daydream.

Richly imagined, superbly orchestrated and conducted by Valery Gergiev, this concert performance at the Barbican was an exciting première of Shchedrin's new opera, inspired by Leskov. 

Gidon Kremer brought the latest version of his Kremerata Baltica ensemble to Prague Spring on Friday night for more than a concert., in which he proved there is still no one quite like him who combines political consciousness with superb musicianship.

The night got off to a very classical, Viennese start when Vladimir Fedoseyev took the stage of the golden hall on Saturday night at the Musikverein.

Rachmaninov’s symphonic poem The Isle of the Dead is an intense piece of music. Inspired by a painting by Böcklin, Rachmaninov tells us of the journey to the underworld. The first moments of the piece are crucial to any performance, and Valery Gergiev lead the Rotterdam Philharmonic into a heavy and emotionally laden rendition.

The LSO presented two lengthy, challenging works in this evening’s concert dedicated to the late Maurice Murphy, former principal trumpeter. No doubt Murphy would have been proud of the orchestra’s efforts on this occasion, with the brass section particularly excelling themselves in the Mahler.

In the second Lord Mayor’s concert held at the Barbican this weekend, the 2010 appeal called for donations for a new initiative called ‘Pitch Perfect.’ This scheme provides opportunities to take part in music and cricket for children in the most deprived East London boroughs, where the LSO is widely involved in community projects.

Concluant leur résidence à la Cité de la Voix, l'Ensemble Aedes et son chef ont proposé un extraordinaire programme-concept en forme de « chemin de foi » menant au Stabat Mater de Poulenc.

Mit Tausenden von Münchner Konzertfreunden eröffneten Valery Gergiev und die Münchner Philharmoniker die neue Isarphilharmonie.

Invitée de la quinzième édition des Étés de la Danse qui a lieu au Théâtre Mogador, la Compañia Nacional de Danza interprète le ballet Carmen dans la version de Johan Inger créée en 2015.

L’Auditorium de Lyon accueille l’excellent Orchestre national d’Auvergne et son fougueux chef Roberto Forés Veses pour un programme qui donne envie de voyager et de danser sous le soleil de l’Espagne.

Valery Gergiev ehrt Rodion Shchedrin zu dessen 85. Geburtstag in München mit einer kontemplativ-konzertanten Aufführung von The Enchanted Wanderer.

Mariss Jansons hatte sich für eine ganz besondere Carmen-Suite entschieden. Rodion Schtschedrins abendfüllende Ballettmusik verband dabei die Carmenohrwürmer mit 47 verschiedenen Schlaginstrumenten.

Étrange filage que celui entendu mercredi dernier à Gaveau. L’on n’a pas rendu le meilleur service à Brahms en faisant succéder son Quintette en fa mineur par Nicolas Stavy et le Quatuor Voce à une performance aussi discutable que celle de Mi Young Lee, dont les contre-sens musicaux et les agaceries n’ont pas laissé intacts Mozart, Liszt et Chopin.

El chelista Gustafsson ofreció una versión del concierto de Haydn llena de vitalidad bajo una acertada dirección de Josep Pons al frente de la OSG.

Cette maîtrise parfaite de l’œuvre et la capacité, rare, à respecter parfaitement le phrasé des tableaux font de cette soirée un moment d’exception, dont on se souviendra longtemps. Un très grand chef pour un bel orchestre.