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Hungarian National Ballet's Spartacus is not short of drama. Combined with Khachaturian's rousing score and some breathtaking dancing, it's a winner.

Elena Schwarz conducts the NSO in a rousing rendition of Dvořák's famous Seventh Symphony, while cellist Leonard Elschenbroich offers punchy Khachaturian.

Alexei Ratmansky's Ancient Greek take on Bolshoi-style dram-ballets gets its New York premiere as part of American Ballet Theatre's summer season at the Met.

Grieg's Piano Concerto is the highlight of this closing concert of the Oslo Phil's centenary tour, with Leif Ove Andsnes' exceptional technical skill helping to cast the work in a new and flattering light.

Subtlety has no place here. Go for the explosive male dancing and two contrasting female leads.

Большой, храбрый, напористый. Если вы хотите посмотреть, как танцуют балет «Спартак», к вашим услугам только одна труппа: Большой балет.

The Bolshoi delivers a big, bold, and explosive Spartacus in the way that only the Bolshoi can.

Walton’s First Symphony from 1935 rounded off the evening in a blaze of brassy glory. Petrenko approached the work in a full-blooded fashion, which didn’t always hit the mark, but was ultimately thrilling.

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

The Australian Ballet’s adaptation of the historic Ancient Roman story fuses violence, seduction, and the anguish of separation. It delivers a mesmerising display of masculinity, through widly explosive battle scenes.

Alexander Shelley curated a hot-blooded programme of adventure and imagery with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with Susanne Hou showing extraordinary technique and class in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.

In a programme guaranteed to draw the crowds the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra were on sparkling form with dynamic playing too from pianist Boris Giltburg.

In an all-Russian programme, Agrest gave us a thoughtfully textured Tchaikvosky 4, while the ease with which Andrey Gugnin took on Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto was a delight.

The muscular piano playing of Nikolai Lugansky could not save the Russian National Orchestra’s shoddy Enescu and Prokofiev.

A superstar soloist helps the Toronto Symphony Orchestra offer a telling tribute to Czech conductor Karel Ančerl.

A splendid recital by Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan in King's Place's "Cello Unwrapped" series pays tribute to Russian cellist Anatoly Brandukov. 

The St Petersburg Philharmonic playing Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony – a work it premiered in 1937 as the Leningrad Philharmonic – was a highlight of a superb concert concluding its UK tour. 

Two great pieces were on the programme for RSNO's first concert of the season: a delightful evening from the beginning to the end!

An inspiring sight in a troubled year: a hundred young Europeans coming together in the European Union Youth Orchestra celebrating music and friendship.

An exhilarating journey through three Russian suites with LaVerdi in Milan. 

International Ballet stars come together on stage in London to honour the late legendary Russian ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaya.

The Bard met with boisterous performances in the LPO's latest instalment of Shakespeare400, but Khachaturian's Violin Concerto emerged with much subtlety.

The combination of Grieg, Sibelius and Shostakovich proved a rather uninteresting one in Oslo.

Roberto Bolle and Herman Cornejo bring their shared gala program, BalletNow to Los Angeles. With a cast of twenty dancers, BalletNow is an innovative split bill that features European and Latin American stars. Two works feature Bolle dancing in interactive film sequences. 

Khachaturian’s innate gift for melody and Dvořák’s penchant for grandeur and drama led to an evening of sumptuous and exciting music-making from the BSO. 

Margaret Barrett's new work Universal Language explores the linguistic basis of oppression. This Fine Arts Chamber Players concert featured musicians of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and The Obscure Dignitaries.

  Conductor Muhai Tang led the youthful group in readings of Sibelius 2 and other works that indicate strong future potential.

Sakari Oramo takes the reins for his first Last Night of the Proms, alongside dazzling violinist Janine Jansen and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Rare Russian repertoire fails to catch fire, despite the best efforts of Osmo Vänskä and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

The Scottish Concert Orchestra and Russian State Ballet of Siberia keep the Christmas spirit alive with Music and Dance at the Ballet at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

As the audience assembled in Roy Thomson Hall on Wednesday, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Members of the orchestra were taking their seats on the stage, getting ready to tune their instruments. However, anyone paying close attention to the setting would have seen a fixture hanging high above the stage.

A Russian orchestra playing big, soul-searching pieces of Russian music is always going to be a crowd-puller, and a full symphony orchestra visiting the North East is a rare treat, so it was no surprise that the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra had the cavernous Town Hall in Middlesbrough pretty much filled, with a very enthusiastic audience.

The beautiful thing about music is that it can be a physical embodiment of passion. Violinist Andrew Haveron’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto on Thursday night in Dublin occasionally felt like it lacked a bit of passion, dazzlingly virtuosic though his performance was.

New Year’s concerts have never been that appealing to me: I am not a great lover of Viennese waltzes and that is what most of them consist of. But fortunately this year the Holland Symfonia had a New Years concert with a twist: Russian fireworks.

The programme notes suggested that Glinka was the father of Russian nationalism. Perhaps this is the case, but his overture to his second opera, Ruslan and Ludmilla, is undeniably an Italianate work, surely influenced by his meetings with Donizetti and Bellini in 1830.

The Bolshoi are back in town and, judging from yesterday’s opening performance of Spartacus, they are here to show off their characteristically big and bold style of ballet. Spartacus is a spectacle of grand scale, a thrilling combination of physical power and drama.

Plus encore que des Tableaux d'une exposition joliment accompagnés de bouchées concoctées par le chef étoilé Éric Girardin, on retiendra de ce concert l'exceptionnel Concerto de Khatchatourian par Khachatryan...

L'Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn proposait une série de concerts autour de l'Arménie avec un programme à la fois issu du répertoire et intégrant des compositions et arrangements originaux de Cyrille Lehn. 

Avec son jeu orchestral et lyrique, le pianiste russe excelle dans Tchaïkovski et Rachmaninov.

El magnífico Emmanuel Pahud era el atractivo principal de una velada que incluía el Concierto para flauta de Khachaturian además de Scheherazade de Rimsky-Korsakov.

Au Concert de Paris, les stars de la musique classique se sont succédées devant les caméras de télévision, sous la Tour Eiffel. Pour de beaux moments, malgré la lourdeur des paillettes du 14 juillet.

Concert « diVin » au Conservatoire de Mulhouse, où les musiciens de l'Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse ont enchanté le public, dans un programme d'œuvres des XXe et XXIe siècles.

Les musiciens du Wiener Cello Ensemble 5 + 1 ont pris au mot le thème annuel du Gstaad Menuhin Festival : “Pomp in music”. Au programme, des arrangements plein de faste, dont l’oeil profite autant que l’oreille.

El Concierto para violín de Tchaikovsky y La noche de los mayas de Revueltas, más la presencia del joven violinista Ryu Goto anticipaban una velada emocionante.

L’ONCT proposait une soirée entièrement dédiée à la musique russe du début du XXème siècle. Si le public de la Halle est désormais habitué des grands noms des compositeurs de l’Europe centrale et de l’Est, le programme de ce soir promettait des découvertes certaines.