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In this performance of Shostakovich's final symphony, the ‘Fate’ motif from Wagner’s Ring suggested the LSO brass had been moonlighting in Bayreuth.

Barry Douglas, in his home town, gives an excellent reading of a piece central to his repertoire,while Olari Elts puts the Ulster Orchestra through their paces in a highly colourful Petrushka.

The Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko celebrates its heritage with an evening of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov

An imperious Barry Douglas provided a magisterial Emperor Concerto in an otherwise disappointing concert from the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.

After somewhat tame Tchaikovsky, the combined forces of Barry Douglas and the Borodin String Quartet deliver a compelling Brahms Piano Quintet. 

An all-Russian programme of favourite works opens the Hallé’s 160th season.  

A Finale of scorching changeability and complexity, with a coda whose ferocity drew gasps.

Glowing Tchaikovsky from Barry Douglas coupled with an intelligently driven performance of Prokofiev's Sixth Symphony by the LSO under Thomas Søndergård.

A mixed bag from the Brussels Phil on their UK tour, with César Franck's Symphony proving the highlight. 

Valery Gergiev and the LSO present a concert of two halves: an awkward Brahms Piano Concerto, but a thrilling Janáček Glagolitic Mass.

Eastern European folk rhythms and the spirit of fin de siècle Russia resonate through Basingstoke as the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra plays Kodály, Rachmaninov and Dvořák. 

Never failing to provide an interesting programme, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra performed the music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich under the baton of the BSO’s Conductor Laureate Andrew Litton.

Another fine season for the London Symphony Orchestra looks inevitable after the brilliantly played Mahler 6 they brought to the Barbican on Wednesday night. With the assured Thomas Dausgaard leading the way in this furious, huge march, the band amply showed its Mahler chops with some scintillating orchestral sounds.

In what was apparently the first appearance from an Irish orchestra at the Proms since the 1970s, pianist/conductor Barry Douglas and the strings of his Camerata Ireland brought a programme to Cadogan Hall which examined Benjamin Britten in the context of some of his contemporaries and friends.

RSNO cellist Peter Hunt's pre-concert talk began with a reading from Salman Rushhdie's novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet. This reworking of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, was the inspiration for Open Ground by Russian-born (now Sweden-based) composer Victoria Borisova-Ollas. The novel's principal character, Vina Aspara, is caught up in an earthquake in Mexico.

The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra enjoyed an evening of youthful exuberance in the Bridgewater Hall with an all-Russian programme, conducted with grace and refinement by Yuri Simonov.Modest Mussorgsky’s Night on the Bare Mountain explicitly paints what the composer called “Spirits of darkness...and the Black Mass” in a progressively wild orgy before the bells of dawn break the scene.

Dans des œuvres de Schubert, Liszt et Brahms, le pianiste irlandais révèle des dons de caméléon, qui sait trouver le son qui va à chaque compositeur.

Dima Slobodeniouk dirige un desafiante programa soviético al frente de la Sinfónica de Galicia para el que contó con el pianista Barry Douglas y el trompetista Jeroen Berwaert.

Deux princes du piano pour cette « nuit Beethoven » concertante, où le vent dans les feuillages bavardait avec les musiciens. Alors que la hardiesse de l’opus 15 en ut majeur était confiée au jeune pianiste britannique Benjamin Grosvenor, Abdel Rahman el Bacha choisissait le bel opus 58 en sol majeur.

Jurowski dio una nueva muestra de su dominio de este repertorio sinfónico comandando una interpretación que triunfó en la casi imposible misión de hacer que la obra desmintiese su carácter programático