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Under Iván Fischer's direction, Mahler's First Symphony is notable more for bombastic passion than subtle artistry.

Mihhail Gerts and Vadym Kholodenko delight in Bartók, while the Ulster Orchestra’s playing pleases in two five-movement symphonic works. 

James Ehnes and colleagues launch the 2023 edition of Seattle Chamber Music Society's month-long summer festival on an exhilarating note with trios by Dohnányi, Bartók and Ravel.

Ernő Dohnányi's Symphonic Minutes made its first appearance on a Philharmonic subscription program since 1940, followed by a stirring account of Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto with Sir András Schiff.

The Takács Quartet performed quartets by Beethoven and Mozart with insight and energy. Pianist Jeremy Denk joined the ensemble in Dohnányi’s lushly romantic Piano Quintet.

ChamberFest Cleveland’s Hungarian evening traversed works of Liszt, Eötvös, and Dohnányi, alongside Brahms’ apt Hungarian Dances.

Royal Northern Sinfonia welcomed their new chamber pianist in residence, Alisdair Beatson, with some brilliantly imaginative programming.

Mozart, Dvořák and Dohnányi takes listeners at the Edinburgh Festival from Prussia to Hungary. 

Hungarian composer Dohnányi's fourth and last opera is a comic delight, especially in the hands of the team at the Budapest Opera. 

Contrasting Hungarian musical portraits from Dohnányi and Bartók anchored JoAnn Falletta’s latest Virginia Symphony concerts, coupled with a Tchaikovsky piano concerto that was long on bravura but short on poetry.

Iván Fischer conducted the Budapest Festival Orchestra in impassioned performances of Dohnányi, Beethoven and Brahms to an appreciative, if criminally small, audience in Manchester.More than any other Music Director one could think of, Fischer has a large claim to the BFO being his orchestra. Since founding the orchestra in 1983, he has been its only chief and has guided it to wide acclaim.

St George’s Bristol is an extraordinary venue. Renowned for its unbeatable acoustic amongst performers and listeners alike, there is something unique about it that cannot be attributed to its sonic qualities alone.

The San Francisco Symphony recently returned from an exhausting six-city, ten-concert tour of Asia and now enter the month of December with a selection of seasonal, festive performances.

The husband and wife team of acclaimed concert violinist Lisa Batiashvili and solo oboist François Leleux forms the backbone of this as-yet-unnamed chamber group, which performs as often as busy individual schedules permit. For some the main draw of an ensemble of like this might be hearing the music buffeted around by strong personalities.

Un vibrante concierto con espacio para fantásticas intervenciones solistas que contó además con la presencia del pianista Francesco Piemontesi, quien, con buena compenetración con el director, Iván Fischer, presentó una luminosa versión del concierto de Schumann.

Le festival offre la possibilité à de jeunes artistes de se produire dans une salle du Corum. Le Trio Arnold montre au public montpelliérain son admirable cohésion dans un répertoire rare et exigeant.

Dans le discret auditorium Cziffra, les quatre musiciens offrent un formidable périple de Mozart à Mendelssohn, en passant par le méconnu opus 15 de Dohnányi.

Ameno programa húngaro con un colosal Nikolai Demidenko y un inspirado Otto Tausk en el podio