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Janine Jansen joins the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for Prokofiev in a brilliantly conceived programme ending with Bartók’s ebullient Concerto for Orchestra. 

Led by Sir Antonio Pappano, the London Symphony's first New York appearance in two decades also featured Janine Jansen in Bernstein's Serenade after Plato's "Symposium".

Sally Beamish's Distans received its UK premiere, along with the Seventh Symphony in Noseda's ongoing Prokofiev cycle with the LSO.

Pappano's transition from pit to podium continues in London, with fine results in a Barbican programme of Boulanger, Barber and Rachmaninov. 

Timothy Ridout, Daniel Blendulf and Denis Kozhukin join the Dutch violinist for intensely passionate performances of Brahms chamber works. 

In his first appearance with the Czech Philharmonic, the conductor showed a deep respect for tradition and an innate feel for Czech music.

Everybody's current darling among international orchestras, Klaus Mäkelä, takes his Parisian band on a fantastic ride, courtesy of Berlioz, while Janine Jansen displays individualism in Sibelius.

Janine Jansen's interpretation of Sibelius' Violin Concerto is a triumph, followed by a powerful reading of Prokofiev's Sixth by Noseda – a thrilling concert to leave the heart racing.

Violin dealers J & A Beare celebrate its 130th anniversary in lavish style by bringing together eight of the Cremona luthier’s exceptional instruments for a concert directed by Dutch violinist, Janine Jansen. 

Janine Jansen’s exquisite reading of Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto leaves the Belgian audience on a high.

Jansen lights up the Tonhalle with Bernstein's Serenade, while Paavo Järvi conducts Bruckner's Third Symphony. 

Concertgoers in Zurich are recently to a superb double bill of Tchaikovsky and Bruckner at the opera house. 

A risk-free, splendid musical feast for a summer festival, magnificently performed in Verbier's church.

Gianandrea Noseda proves his Russian credentials with a nerve-shredding, volatile account of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. 

Janine Jansen was the superb soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto, balancing fire with refreshing mountain air before a bracing “Alpine Journey” with Bruckner's Third Symphony. 

The last weekend concerts before the holidays at the Tonhalle Maag featured soloist Janine Jansen, the virtuoso Dutch violinist who is Artist-in-Residence here this year.

Festive Janáček and energetically fresh Sibelius from Rattle and the LSO, with impressive focus and intensity from Janine Jansen in Szymanowski's sensuous Violin Concerto no. 1.

Works by Alban Berg and Gustav Mahler recently heralded this year’s concert season in Zurich, where Artist in Residence Janine Jansen gave a superb performance. 

Three musicians at the top of their game – Martha Argerich, Janine Jansen and Misha Maisky – collaborated in a celebration of the joy of music-making that teased, astonished and ultimately stirred the emotions.

Jansen is an artist of such great musicianship that she was able to instill new life to Bruch's First Violin Concerto.

Starting her Perspectives series, Janine Jansen invited three outstanding musicians to join her in 20th century repertoire.

It was another evening staring into the abyss courtesy of the London Symphony Orchestra, with Britten's Violin Concerto paired with Mahler's Fifth Symphony.

If not the ideal first half to precede the Quartet for the End of Time, there could be no quarrel with the execution thoroughout.

An exhilarating ride through Mahler's Seventh at the Barbican. 

This was an ingenious and memorable concert of rarities and hybrids from early 20th-century Vienna, curated and performed by the ever imaginative Janine Jansen.

In a cleverly-designed programme, Sir Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra brought meticulous attention to detail and plenty of drama in three superb performances.

Sibelius' Violin Concerto nestles beside Mahlerian flowers in the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's concert under Thomas Søndergård.

A dream matchup of Janine Jansen with Alexander Gavrylyuk spoiled the audience at the Concertgebouw in this must-hear collaboration. Tonight’s programme included sonatas from Brahms, Prokofiev, Poulenc and a sublime rendition of Szymanowski’s Trois Mythes.

The return of Andris Nelsons for the Seventh in his complete cycle of Shostakovich symphonies with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra demonstrated yet again the marvelous chemistry between the two. 

Performing a world première alongside two old favourites, Daniel Harding and the London Symphony Orchestra stirred up a Lucerne audience on all three counts.

When Janine Jansen plays, you have to sit up and listen. Her interpretation of Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major impresses in Sydney. 

Though Janine Jansen's Bartok impresses, Pappano and the LSO disappoint in two of Ravel and Tchaikovsky's best-loved works

Sakari Oramo takes the reins for his first Last Night of the Proms, alongside dazzling violinist Janine Jansen and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

This concert seemed to be an object lesson as to why Vaughan Williams is a great composer. It contained three contrasting pieces, each one demonstrating the composer’s ability to create atmosphere and capture the attention of audiences by the scruff of neck.

Sakari Oramo swaps his baton for a bow to join Janine Jansen in a fine performance of Prokofiev's double violin sonata; imperfect balance and coordination affect Jansen and pianist Itamar Golan's Prokofiev and Schubert.

Janine Jansen's International Chamber Music Festival offered a special treat this year: scratchcard concert, where a scratchcard determined which concerts one got to see.

There was a collaborative spirit underlying this performance with the London Symphony Orchestra and Antonio Pappano, joined for a brilliant Brahms concerto by Janine Jansen. Walton's First Symphony and a Peter Maxwell Davies fanfare also marvelled.

Thursday’s concert with the Oslo Philharmonic might not have featured the most exciting programme, dominated by what one might call the less exciting (but no less beautiful) parts of Eastern European Romanticism, although it still provided ample opportunity for engaging music-making. The remainder, however, proved to be some of the most exciting music I’d heard in quite a while.

The Orchestre de Paris’ 2013/14 season opened with a cymbal crash. Orages (meaning “thunderstorms” in French) was commissioned by the Orchestre de Paris to the Lebanese composer Bechara El-Khoury. In this musical storm, sounds hurt each other, as if superimposed.

Tonight’s Orchestre de Paris Prom was very much a concert of two halves, in the first of which they got to show their sensitive, introspective side, reflecting on the nature of life and lamenting too-early death, then becoming considerably more extrovert in the second for some free-spirited buccaneering, and what the programme notes describe as “vivid, prolonged and grand noise”.

It's not always that Schoenberg is out-weirded in a concert programme. More often, his is the eyebrow-raiser, the tougher music on display, which takes more effort to enjoy.

Janine Jansen’s performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto carried all before it: she played with such passion and commitment, with such seaching beauty and endless variety of tone, it left the orchestral contribution seeming somehow colourless and inadequate to the occasion.

Following the Philadelphia Orchestra’s stellar performance at last night’s Prom, Chief Conductor Charles Dutoit presented a second violinist with a bouquet of flowers. This unusual gesture, he explained, was a fond farewell to a man who has played in the orchestra for 50 years. During the past half-century, that violinist must have played last night’s pieces many times.

In this intensely Romantic programme, the choice of music pointed to the ways in which art and life can be closely intertwined, from Wagner's Idyll to celebrate the birth of his son (also called Siegfried), to Joachim's fingerprints in the Brahms concerto or Strauss's tone poem on Death and Transfiguration.

Das Erfolgsrezept des dritten der beliebten Rencontres inédites lautete: Man nehme zwei bekannte Kammermusikstücke von Brahms und lasse sie von hochkarätigen Musikern in verschiedenen Kombinationen musizieren.

Die Geigerin und Paavo Järvi entfachen ein musikalischen Feuer in der Isarphilharmonie München.

Retour sur le premier concert symphonique de l'été au Gstaad Menuhin Festival, où la direction de Jaap van Zweden et le jeu de Janine Jansen ont fait merveille dans Mendelssohn et Bruckner.

Mit einer unverwechselbaren Wiedergabe von Sibelius‘ Violinkonzert bestätigt die niederländische Geigerin ihr Weltformat. Und in Rimsky-Korsakows Scheherazade schlägt die Stunde des Tonhalle-Orchesters Zürich und seines Chefdirigenten Paavo Järvi. 

Dans un passionnant programme qui mettait en avant la dimension concertante du style classique, l'ensemble autrichien et la violoniste néerlandaise ont parlé la même langue.