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In the middle of a dark winter, Kirill Petrenko's interpretation of Dutilleux's First Symphony and Bartók's The Wooden Prince brightens the Grand Hall of Berlin's Philharmonie with a variety of colours.

On paper this looked entrancing: a French conductor with Armenian roots assaying a score of oriental splendour. It was the first half, however, with Dutilleux and Debussy that satisfied more.

John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London give a masterclass in musical perfection in works by Walton, Ravel, Gershwin and Dutilleux.

Isabel Leonard demonstrated her keen sense of language and a wonderful lack of affectation in both scores she sung.

Roth's exploration of the roots of musical modernism takes the LSO from Debussy to Strauss via Dvořák's Cello Concerto.

Ébène Quartet’s musical ebb and flow brings to mind Proust’s words to Fauré, that he was “intoxicated by his music”.  

Lionel Bringuier and the LSO show off a dazzling palette of colours in works by Brahms, Dutilleux, and Ravel

On the last leg of their first international tour, the Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin fully embraced Elgar after a francophone first half of Berlioz and Saint-Saëns. 

Ludovic Morlot makes a grand return to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a program of 20th-century works, highlighted by a masterful performance of Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, with soloist Ray Chen. 

The riotous energy of carnival dazzled Symphony Hall as Alain Altinoglu debuted with the Boston Symphony in a program he assembled as a personal homage to Charles Munch.

Thomas Hengelbrock and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra open Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie concert-hall with a traversal of music through the ages, from a Renaissance motet to Wolfgang Rihm's latest work.

Who would think that a symphony concert featuring Schoenberg and Dutilleux would sell out? Well, it did – in Tokyo. Bravo to the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra for its daring programming.

Colorful works by Mussorgsky, Dutilleux, and Ravel surround Shostakovich’s gray Soviet-era Violin Concerto no. 2.

In a former ballroom in the up-and-coming Neukölln district, the orchestra’s chamber ensemble presented an eccentric programme of music by oddballs and outcasts.

A master at clever programming, Maestro Iván Fischer surrounded Dutilleux with well-known pieces by Debussy, Ravel and Satie as part of the week-long French Days segment of the Bridging Europe 2016 series at Budapest’s Müpa. 

The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo glistened and shimmered in Dutilleux and presented a 'no holds barred' Beethoven's Fifth while Håkan Hardenberger provided zing and reflection in HK Gruber.

Johannes Moser summmoned the other in Dutilleux's Baudelaire-inspired cello concerto, but the BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena gave a mundane account of Elgar's First Symphony. 

Fine Dutilleux celebration sandwiched between brilliant Schoenberg and patchy Mahler.

Sennu Laine brought out a richness and suspense in Dutilleux's Tout un monde lointain, I had not heard before tonight. With all three sets from Debussy’s Images pour orchestre and an ebullient Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, Barenboim and his Staatskapelle intoxicated the audience.

Kristine Opolais joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky in its season-closing concert. 

Charles Dutoit stands as arguably today’s premier Berlioz conductor. If his case needed any special pleading, it was pled well in Symphony Hall when he bracketed the Resurrexit and Te Deum with Henri Dutillieux’s Timbre, espace, mouvement ou La Nuit étoilée.

Pascal Rophé, Elizabeth Atherton and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales celebrate Dutilleux’s centenary year with five contemporary works associated with the composer

Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and the BSO capture the contrasting colours in French and Russian music. 

Two landmark scores from the repertory of the Ballets Russes sandwiched Thursday night’s concert at Symphony Hall: Debussy’s Jeux and Stravinsky’s Petrushka (in its original 1913 version).

The correlation between music and painting is one of the most interesting and long existing themes in the history of art.

Rattle and the LSO excelling in French music of the 20th Century by Ravel, Delage and Dutilleux.

For the third concert of their 2015 Premier Series, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra under Musical Director Eckehard Stier presented "Out of this World", a varied programme of Bach, Dutilleux and Shostakovich.

The Philharmonia's City of Light season goes from strength to strength with an outstanding performance of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges and Dutilleux's Correspondances.

Quatuor Ebène delight a Queen's Hall audience with Haydn, Dutilleux and Brahms.

Leading the Seattle Symphony in an all-French program, Ludovic Morlot takes subtle risks that pay off splendidly in one of the centrepiece events of a nationwide orchestral summit. 

Juliette Bausor and Alasdair Beatson give an exciting and versatile programme of music for piano and flute as part of the European Concert Hall Organisation's ECHO Rising Stars programme.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s return to the London Philharmonic, of which he is the Guest Principal Conductor, was as usual greeted with a full and enthusiastic concert hall. His strengths in the French repertoire and choral music made him the perfect conductor for an evening of music by Dutilleux and Shostakovich, whose Tout un monde lointain and Symphony no.

The opening of Henri Dutilleux’s Symphony no. 1, with its distinctive pizzicato opening full of tension and curiosity, opened the concert not with a bang but rather a seductive lure.

A tense, Holocaust-inspired orchestral work by Henri Dutilleux followed by one of Mozart’s most chipper piano concertos on one half; a second half consisting of only the Beethoven Symphony no. 5. That's a strange enough combination on paper – and hearing it actually realized is stranger still. You have to wonder what they were thinking.

Beethoven, Mozart, Angela Hewitt are all much loved names in the world of classical music. The promise of a Mozart piano concerto played by Angela Hewitt and a Beethoven symphony is enough to whet any music lover’s appetite. However, as in so many Sydney Symphony concerts, there was another work thrown in, which one could have been forgiven for glossing over in the evening’s publicity.

Neither Prokofiev nor Dutilleux is a exactly a failsafe at the box office, and the combination of both - and a rainy afternoon - left quite a few seats unclaimed at last night's Prom by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev.Which was a shame.

Today's lunchtime Chamber Music Prom featured Emmanuel Pahud, paying us a flying visit from his regular job as principal flautist of the Berlin Philharmonic (literally - he's flying back to Berlin for a concert in the evening).

An evening of French music, the notes from Debussy, Ravel and Dutilleux lingered in the sticky summer air long after the concert finished.Making their BBC Proms debut, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBC SSO) and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, conducted by Donald Runnicles with chorus-master Christopher Bell, took command of the stage.

Si le violoncelliste s'est montré inspiré dans le Premier Concerto de Chostakovitch, Andrés Orozco-Estrada est passé à côté d'un concert qui n'a pas proposé la fête attendue.

An den Vorurteilen gegen Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde kräftig gerüttelt: Werke von Chin, Dutilleux, Seltenreich und Ben-Haim kamen beim Publikum in der Münchner Isarphilharmonie bestens an.

El espíritu libre dominó un programa que Gemma New supo articular con respeto y personalidad y al que la Orquesta Nacional respondió con riqueza de sonido.

El chelista Nicolas Altstaedt fue el protagonista de la velada con una interpretación magnífica de Tout un monde lointain, en la que la dirección de Ludovic Morlot jugó también un importante papel.

Estimulante velada en la que se parearon obras de Rachmaninov con repertorio francés contemporáneo y en la que destacó especialmente la interpretación de la pianista Eva Gevorgyan.

Dans Les Hébrides comme dans la monumentale symphonie-randonnée de Richard Strauss, le maestro et l'Orchestre de Paris font forte impression.

Dans un concert au programme nocturne doté d'une vraie dramaturgie, le Quatuor Ébène et ses deux complices ont brillé, notamment dans une Nuit transfigurée déjà légendaire.

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

Le chef finlandais retrouve l'orchestre qui l'a lancé et il le lui rend bien, dirigeant un Oiseau de feu d'anthologie et accompagnant Peter Mattei avec talent. Miklós Perenyi paraît plus à la peine dans Dutilleux.

À la Philharmonie, la baguette précise de Thomas Guggeis et le violon virtuose de Michael Barenboim font resplendir les couleurs de Dutilleux et chanter les thèmes de Strauss.