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New music, old friends and supercharged Strauss from the Estonian Festival Orchestra.

Kalmar and Sidorova pair up for a powerful performance of Piazzolla's Aconcagua in Atlanta.

Franz Welser-Möst delivered a first-rate account of the Symphony in F sharp major, which was panned at its premiere but has seen a recent spike in popularity.

It can’t be easy for conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada to have to play second fiddle to senior maestros on the Vienna Philharmonic’s tour.

A great orchestra visits Tokyo, but mediocre conducting disappoints. 

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra plays a programme by many Strausses – even Richard – in a programme conducted by Christian Thielemann. 

After London's farewell to Bernard Haitink the evening before, Andrés Orozco-Estrada had a tough act to follow with the Vienna Philharmonic. We needn't have worried. 

Following the recipe of the New Year Concert from Vienna, the CBSO demonstrated their ability, but not much originality in this predictable programme. 

Christoph Altstaedt conducts the Ulster Orchestra in a charming programme of quintessentially Viennese music for New Year.

A program juxtaposing music by Mahler and Berlioz didn't fully convey these musicians' abilities.

The Vienna Philharmonic played with their characteristic finesse, albeit at times sacrificing the larger arc of the music

Conductor and virtuoso orchestra never lingered, and the audience was riveted by this taut performance.

A stuttering first half of Adams and Dvořák redeemed by a magical Mahler 1.

Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra gave a breath-taking performance, with  concentration and class.

This was the first time I've been to a concert with a 10:30 kick-off, but then this was the first of its kind. Nor did the inaugural Sport Prom turn out to be merely a game of two halves...

Avec un fameux Viennois invité à la direction et au violon solo, l'Orchestre national de Lyon a proposé à son public un concert du Nouvel An festif, très réussi.

El conjunto de voces blancas Niños Cantores de Viena, acompañado por su director Manolo Cagnin, ofreció un concierto en Madrid con un ecléctico programa.