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The Suite from Janáček Cunning Little Vixen features in the Vienna Philharmonic's second concert of the 2023 festival. 

Sunday bells call the Salzburg Festival pilgrims to the Großes Festspielhaus for late choral Verdi and Bruckner's Seventh Symphony. 

Krzysztof Warlikowski’s ghoulish production has the Macbeths’ killing spree spring from their infertility.

Martin Kušej gives Mozart and Da Ponte's commedia per musica a sinister mafia setting, which is low on laughs but outstandingly performed, led by Lea Desandre's charismatic Cherubino.

The Vienna Philharmonic’s annual visit has long been one of the highlights of the Carnegie Hall season and do not disappoint in this year's visit, with Christian Thielemann. 

The Vienna Philharmonic gives Hong Kong a taste of their signature Wienerklang in orchestral works by Wagner, Richard Strauss and Dvořák. 

An uncharacteristically weak showing by Andris Nelsons and the Vienna Philharmonic took the air out of an otherwise impressive year for the festival.

If in heaven there are indeed harps, then it would be hard to imagine a better angel to recruit than Anneleen Lenaerts, who performed Glière's concerto with her Philharmonic brothers and sisters in arms in the Musikverein. 

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin gave a rendition of Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique, in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, that was by turns anguished, lyrical, savage and subtle.

The orchestra's programme of French and Russian classics exploring the myths of the Mediterranean and Eastern worlds proves a hit on tour in New York.

The Vienna Philharmonic’s unparalleled musicality is beyond impressive and is proved on pieces like Schubert Symphony No. 8 “The Great”. 

It was a pleasure to hear the Vienna Philharmonic in Herbert Blomstedt's deeply-invested nonagenarian's view of music he has been performing for nearly seven decades.

"Is the Vienna Philharmonic coming or not?" This had been the talk of town amongst classical music fans in Japan since September, when its concert scene regained some semblance of normality.

Forget powerhouse “hojotohos” and sandblasting brass. Elīna Garanča and Christian Thielemann offered more intimate portraits of these composers at the Großes Festspielhaus.

“Go big or go home” could easily have been the motto of this summer’s festival. Muti didn’t just go big. He went huge. 

In a pandemic era of chamber reductions, the joy in this Mahler 6 was hearing an orchestra of 108 musicians let off the leash. 

It's difficult to believe Salzburg could have cast a finer Così in Loy's Covid-reduced production in the Großes Festspielhaus.

An Elektra conducted like Mendelssohnian fairy music, sung not shouted, just as Strauss required.

At Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie, the Wiener Philharmoniker and Andris Nelsons launch a chronological cycle of Beethoven's nine symphonies with the first three sticks of dynamite.

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. 

Christiane Karg is the resplendent soprano in a wonderful performance of Mahler's Fourth at the Konzerthaus.

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. 

An emotional night in London as Bernard Haitink says farewell to London with grand and searching performances of Bruckner and Beethoven, with the distinguished Emanuel Ax in tow.

The Salzburg Festival's production of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld is another classic in the making from Barrie Kosky.

Riccardo Muti conducted a stirring performance of Verdi's Requiem to mark the 30th anniversary of Karajan's death.

Salzburg's new staging of Enescu's operatic epic Oedipe is a visual and musical triumph.

Programming his countryman Bartók between two Beethoven works, Ádám Fischer returned to Carnegie Hall with the Vienna Philharmonic. 

The Vienna Philharmonic perform Mahler’s Ninth Symphony at the Barbican, with deep and urgent commitment under Ádám Fischer.

Riccardo Muti offers a non-interventionist approach in a concert showcasing a great orchestra on golden form.

Blomstedt, in splendid form at 91, also paid tribute to his largely forgotten compatriot Franz Berwald, who died 150 years ago.

The Lucerne Festival audience recently celebrated a superb solo performance by cellist Kian Soltani, the 2018 winner of the annual Credit Suisse Young Artist Award, who played with the Vienna Philharmonic.

Mariss Jansons and the Vienna Philharmonic do the real storytelling as Hans Neuenfels' staging underwhelms.

An astonishing performance by Asmik Grigorian is central to the Italian director's disturbing reading of a disturbing opera. 

...the perpetuum mobile character building to a raucously joyous finale that elicited genuine, generous applause.

Dudamel led the Vienna Philharmonic in an impassioned Ives Second but lacked the precision and control to achieve the full dramatic effects of Tchaikovsky's Fourth.

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

Capuçon warmed up through the melancholy second movement, exhibiting seamless legato and the ability to feather his phrases with finesse and subtlety

The aesthetic delights of the Vienna Philharmonic fail to enliven its Beethoven.

The Vienna Philharmonic show themselves to be much more than a straight romantic band; individual musicianship shines through Mahler's tragic Sixth.

Muti's reading of the score is extraordinary, both for its sophistication and originality.

A skilfully constructed production, and one that plays with the our perspectives. Whether the images are flashbacks from a war-troubled Wozzeck or a Büchner-esque portent of the horrors to come is left for the audience to decide.

Youth was a hindrance rather than a virtue in this testosterone-driven performance which sought more than anything to sock the audience between the eyes

Under Mariss Jansons, the Vienna Philharmonic are on top form in Shostakovich's opera; together with a top class cast of singers, they create sonic and emotional intoxication.

Big names brought a big sound but not much else to the traditional performance of Smetana's Má vlast.

Rewarding programme contrasting First and Second Viennese schools opens Berlin's 2017 Festtage.

Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker, an ensemble he knows very well, in two Romantic masterpieces that were not always considered as such.

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performed new(ish) music straight from its own bloodline (René Staar) under the direction of Maestro Franz Welser-Möst alongside works by Schubert, R. Strauss, and, inevitably, Strauss II in their first concert of 2017 at Carnegie Hall.