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Mozart's Requiem packs in the crowd, but it's Berg's Violin Concerto with Carolin Widmann that really finds the spiritual depth.

Carolin Widmann and the Hallé give a special performance of Mendelssohn's ever-popular Violin Concerto, plus fine Liszt and Strauss from conductor Daniele Rustioni. 

The Los Angeles Philharmonic under Salonen inaugurates their musical retrospective of Weimar Germany. 

Manchester's BBC Philharmonic packs a punch in an evening of orchestral greats.

Although a British composer by birth, Rebecca Saunders is most respected in Germany, where she has spent much of her working life. Her latest project was an immersive choreographed programme with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie based around her violin concerto still. 

Both guest artists of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s concerts this week appeared in Australia for the first time: the octogenarian Christoph von Dohnányi and the versatile violinist, less than half his age, Carolin Widmann. The great German conductor must feel a certain pride in his ancestry, as he kept the Hungarian spelling of his surname.

Dohnányi offers hugely satisfying interpretations of varied programme at the Southbank Centre with the Philharmonia and Carolin Widmann.

The world première of Julian Anderson's In lieblicher Blaue and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé make for a colourful programme from the LPO.

The Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, led by Marek Janowski, performs Beethoven's Triple Concerto and Sixth Symphony. 

Linked together by Bach's chorale “Es ist genug”, the Philharmonia performed Lindberg's enigmatic Chorale, Berg's Violin Concerto and Schubert's Symphony no. 9 in C major “Great”. After an underwhelming first half, some invigorating Schubert saved the day.

Jacek Kaspszyk dirigió la Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid en un concierto conmovedor tanto por las obras escogidas como por la interpretación.

Im Schlusssatz stimmten die Gewichte: wo Caroline Widmann die wunderbare Kantilene vom Piano übernahm, ließ ihr Alexander Lonquich selbst in con sordino Passagen genügend Raum – klar der Höhepunkt vor der Pause!

Ein Abend der besonderen Bereicherung, auf die einzulassen sich unbedingt lohnte!

Ein Konzert nur mit Beethoven: Nur auf den allerersten Blick mag das etwas nach Monokultur aussehen, den es standen sich mit dem Tripelkonzert und der Sechsten Symphonie zwei sehr unterschiedliche Werke gegenüber.