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Sir George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s fourth opera shares the best qualities of their previous work but is an inspiring, breathtaking fable.

No ordinary evening at the Concertgebouw, where Lang Lang’s partnership with Andris Nelsons is the perfect vehicle to examine the complexities and contrasts found in the music of Beethoven.

Dame Mitsuko Uchida demonstrates why she is one of today's greatest Mozartians, while her MCO players give a virtuoso account of a work steeped in the Viennese tradition.

A cabinet of curiosities: Christoph Koncz has an unconventional take on two Viennese symphonies, yet contributes well to an exemplary performance of Britten's most famous song cycle.

If Purcell’s genius was muted, it was not missing in the Mahler Chamber Orchestra's appearance at London's Southbank.

Sparkling Haydn from the Mahler Chamber Orchestra leads the way into an eclectic programme at the Enescu Festival. 

An all-day Beethoven experience European style with both highs and lows: much diversity revealed and exploited but of variable quality.

Luisi programmes Berg, the dark harmonist, and Schubert, the blithe melodist, as a musical yin and yang in Cologne. 

With a semi-staged production, directed by Benjamin Davis, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra has also been bringing George Benjamin's opera to concert hall audiences.

Most of the audience has obviously attended the performance for Uchida’s Mozart. But the exceptional, challenging experience of the evening came from elsewhere.

Mitsuko Uchida finds inner depth in Mozart piano concertos while the Mahler Chamber Orchestra revels in Bartók's gritty and languorous Divertimento for Strings.

Shorn of Katie Mitchell’s production and presented on the Barbican Hall’s stage with only the occasional prop, George Benjamin's modern masterpiece Written on Skin came across with even greater intensity.

First seen at the innovative, fearless Aix-en-Provence festival three summers ago, George Benjamin’s riveting, grisly Written on Skin has arrived in New York. 

For modern ears, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy is a curious beast, a hybrid of orchestral, concertante and choral genres and thus quite difficult to programme in a regular concert. 

On the bill for Prom 9, Thursday 23rd July 2015: Beethoven's first and fourth piano concertos, and Stravinsky's  Apollon Musagète de Stravinsky. A superb musical adventure which leaves us impatient for its next phase.

Barbara Hannigan gives a virtuoso performance of Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Lucerne.

From introspective Mahler to flowing Schumann, Claudio Abbado is remembered at a concert with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Dresden's Frauenkirche.

Akin to medieval knights of old, the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is on a quest called “The Beethoven Journey”. Collaborating with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, this stop on the journey in Dublin was enthralling.

As my seatmate remarked to me after the concert, it is strange and wonderful to hear Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich, who befriended each other late in life, begin to sound alike in their old age while remaining unmistakably themselves. I agreed.

After all that tonal instability in last week’s Wagner marathon at the Proms, Daniel Harding and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra’s programme celebrating C major came as a breath of fresh air. The Royal Albert Hall had cooled down a bit too.

For the second of their two Sydney programs, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra pretty much replicated the layout of the first: a short modernist work, a concerto featuring a string instrument, and, in the second half, a big romantic symphony.

“Europe’s answer to the ACO” was how composer Brett Dean described the Mahler Chamber Orchestra before its first concert in Sydney. Despite the similarity in names, the two are very different ensembles.

“The Beethoven Journey” is a remarkable collaboration between pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

The Mahler Chamber Orchestra presented a Russian program with a twist; “A Russian Flirt with Haydn”. All four works and three composers that graced the stage were influenced by Haydn, most obviously Schnittke and his Moz-Art à la Haydn. The music worked well together, though I would suspect that this is more due to the Russian background than Haydn’s influence.

The poetry of Arthur Rimbaud was, to borrow a phrase from the 1960s, "way out there." His 1870s collection Les Illuminations inspired Benjamin Britten, who set a selection of the poems to music: the words are surreal, bizarre, sometimes erotic, always onomatopoeic and packed with interesting sounds.

La Mahler Chamber Orchestra con Pablo Heras-Casado en la dirección ofreció en el Teatro Real un programa icónico para el que se contó también con Benjamin Alard y que incluyó El retablo de maese Pedro.

Dame Mitsuko Uchida und das Mahler Chamber Orchestra bringen Mozart und Schönberg ins Amsterdamer Concertgebouw.

Con la interpretación de obras de Mendelssohn y Beethoven, Gustavo Dudamel y la Mahler Chamber Orchestra concluyen su participación en el 37 Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias.

La Mahler Chamber Orchestra inaugura la 68 edición del Festival Internacional de Santander con Jakub Hrůša en la direccion.

À Saint-Denis, le Mahler Chamber Orchestra propose des miniatures convaincantes de Mahler ou Berio. Clou du spectacle, une Eva Zaïcik royale, qui illumine tout autant les Kindertotenlieder que les Folksongs.

Currentzis Überpräzisierung lässt beim Brahms-Requiem die Leidenschaft vermissen.

Die Niederländische Komponistin Mayke Nas erfindet neue Klänge, um unsere heutige Zeit mit musikalischen Mitteln zu beschreiben.

La Fundación Scherzo abrió su nueva temporada con Dudamel en la dirección de un concierto en el que se impusieron dos certezas: la riqueza que atesoran los pentagramas de Schubert y Mahler y el excelente estado de forma de la Mahler Chamber Orchestra. 

La nouvelle saison apporte son contingent habituel de symphonies de Gustav Mahler. Premier en lice, Gustavo Dudamel : le public parisien découvrait hier à la Philharmonie une interprétation fourmillante de la Symphonie n° 4.

Die Dreiecksbeziehung mit tragischem Ausgang wurde von einem vollblütigen Sängerensemble und dem außergewöhnlich engagiert spielenden Mahler Chamber Orchestra getragen.

Während Gatti in der Genoveva-Ouvertüre seine Stärken als Operndirigent ausleben konnte, dominierte im Mahler Chamber Orchestra die Spielfreude und das Engagement.

Yuja Wang et le Mahler Chamber Orchestra inaugurent leur tournée européenne à la Fondation Louis Vuitton. Un programme audacieux qui confronte l’esthétique néoclassique de Stravinsky avec le romantisme à fleur de peau de Chopin, en les plaçant dans l’héritage de Mozart et de Beethoven.

Dimanche 26 juillet 2015, le Prom 12 était le 3ème et dernier concert du marathon Beethoven donné par Leif Ove Andsnes et le Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Au programme, les Concertos n°2 et 5 du grand maître. Une soirée jouissive, rayonante de joie.