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Watching Ma inspire younger musicians is an extraordinary experience. Renaud Capuçon conducts an entertaining if imperfect Eroica.

Renaud Capuçon brings his customary taste, refinement and intellect to music he has played many times over the years with a variety of partners – here Julia Hagen and Igor Levit. 

A powerful season-opening concert featuring Renaud Capuçon playing the Australian premiere of Camille Pépin's Violin Concerto Le Sommeil a pris ton empreinte. 

Camille Pépin's Le Sommeil a pris ton empreinte, a violin concerto dedicated to Renaud Capuçon, receives its German premiere. 

Sonatas by Ravel frame Renaud Capuçon and Jean-François Heisser's recital in the Basque seaside town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz. 

From Beethoven's “Ghost” Piano Trio to Schumann’s song cycle, Frauenliebe und -leben, an eclectic programme at the Martha Argerich Festival. 

An unmissable recital as the Sommets Musicaux festival takes on an online incarnation. 

A charming programme featuring Renaud Capuçon and Gérard Caussé in the Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, one of Mozart’s most sublime, sun-drenched works. 

The duo shines in sunny Beethoven, cool Prokofiev and over-ripe Franck.

Martha Argerich hadn't played Chopin's Third Piano Sonata in public for at least 25 years... so this performance at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg came as a huge surprise.

Bychkov and his sterling Czech forces are joined by Renaud Capuçon for a contrasting all-Tchaikovsky programme on their second day at the Vienna Musikverein.

Festivals and academies breed familiarity and mutual compassion between audiences and returning artists. Yet the warmly informal feel of this concert owed mostly to the close relationships between the musicians themselves.

Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse lets the air out of a promising program and a Czech classic.

What a day to hear an all-French programme, and with this fragile moment at its heart criticism feels futile, disrespectful even.

A dashing, captivating concert, lacking only a few mood-changers to stimulate the audience’s eager receptors.

Renaud Capuçon shines in Bartók's two Violin Concertos, together with a strong Concerto for Orchestra from the BBCSO and Péter Eötvös, at the Festival Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo.

A century on from its birth, one of Switzerland’s leading orchestras finally makes its Proms debut in a scintillating programme of French and Russian music.

Renaud Capuçon's Mendelssohn and a strong Schumann 2 make up for a rocky start in Edinburgh.

Daniel Barenboim's absence may have confounded the all-Debussy programme but it left the Aix audience with a beautifully balanced recital.

Celebrating Debussy on the 100th anniversary of his death, this programme played to the strengths of the LSO under the energetic direction of François-Xavier Roth.

The UK première of Shchedrin's Dialogues with Shostakovich was followed by powerful Shostakovich. 

There were piano arpeggios that could have come from the pen of no other composer

The riotous energy of carnival dazzled Symphony Hall as Alain Altinoglu debuted with the Boston Symphony in a program he assembled as a personal homage to Charles Munch.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra provided a formidable performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony under Marin Alsop, with Renaud Capuçon bringing warmth and joie de vivre to Mendelssohn.

A startling new work from Jörg Widmann follows disciplined Beethoven at the Philharmonie. 

Highly effectively performances from Pablo Heras-Casado and LSO in Ravel, Schumann and Dvořák. 

Ludovic Morlot couples an intriguingly pessimistic new work by Giya Kancheli with Martinů's end-of-war Symphony no. 4 and the Brahms Violin Concerto featuring Renaud Capuçon.

A modern piece inspired by Brahms, and two of the composer's masterworks are rendered in fine fashion by Semyon Bychkov and the CSO.

The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra revealed itself at the Concertgebouw as an important part of the future of classical music in the United States. 

Just when we were all having so much fun with the Symphoniker, mum and dad came home and ruined the party.

Fellow Frenchmen Alain Altinoglu and Renaud Capuçon make for fine partners in a rare outing for Berlioz's Harold in Italy. 

Renaud Capuçon and the LPO fail to make the most of Schumann's Violin Concerto, but Saraste's fast, rhapsodic Bruckner made up in beauty of orchestral sound for an unconvincing overall interpretation.

Former chief conductor Gianandrea Noseda made a well-received return to the BBC Philharmonic, conducting a popular programme of Verdi, Bruch and Beethoven.Noseda and the BBC Phil attracted widespread attention in 2006 when they offered free downloads of their entire Beethoven symphony cycle. Demand was huge, with some 1.6 million copies downloaded.

The Recontres inédites series is what makes the Verbier Festival famous among aficionados. The title translates – roughly – as “Unprecedented Meetings”, and that is certainly what the concerts represent: world-class soloists brought together on minimal but far from non-existent rehearsal time to play chamber music.

The fascinating Rest is Noise festival at Southbank Centre has now reached its mid-point, with the focus on music created out of oppression and war.

Even though I’ve been to quite a lot of concerts these past few years, I still can’t put my finger on why some concerts attract many attendees and especially why some are so sparsely visited.

Who has the power, the authority to fix the moment when a major public event can start? In broadcast events, such as the Proms, where all of the concerts are broadcast on Radio 3 and many are televised, the bigger, virtual audience puts the media in the driving seat. The radio or TV producer holds sway - up to the moment when the conductor steps out into the hall.

Après un concerto de Robert Schumann interprété en soliste-chambriste auprès de ses troupes, le directeur artistique de l'Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne a pris la baguette pour une énergique Septième Symphonie de Beethoven.

Entre le vieux monde de Brahms et celui des années 1930 de Barber et Barraine, le cœur des interprètes a balancé, laissant in fine une impression mitigée.

Si l'Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse a étalé sa somptueux pâte sonore, c'est bien la pianiste argentine qui a une nouvelle fois impressionné dans le Concerto pour piano n° 1 de Beethoven.

La création mondiale de la Ballade pour violon et orchestre d'Éric Tanguy est une superbe réussite, avant des Variations Enigma heureusement plus poétiques que pompeuses.

Die Brüder Capuçon mit Rudolf Buchbinder spielten in der Münchnern Isarphilharmonie Schuberts Klaviertrios.

Le violoniste et chef d'orchestre a déçu dans un programme qui a cruellement manqué de narratif, de dialogue avec l’orchestre dans le concerto et de phrasé dans la symphonie.

An den Vorurteilen gegen Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde kräftig gerüttelt: Werke von Chin, Dutilleux, Seltenreich und Ben-Haim kamen beim Publikum in der Münchner Isarphilharmonie bestens an.

Sur des instruments différents, les deux pianistes ont proposé une lecture inégale des chefs-d'œuvre de Fauré, avec une très belle équipe rassemblée par Renaud Capuçon (Anna Agafia Egholm, Paul Zientara, Stéphanie Huang).

Malgré un Renaud Capuçon exemplaire, la création française du dernier concerto de Thierry Escaich laisse sur sa faim, de même qu'une Quatrième de Bruckner qui manque de fièvre et d'élan.

Au sein du week-end de clôture du festival aixois, deux concerts ont joliment mis à l'honneur la jeune génération de la musique de chambre aux côtés de Gil Shaham et Renaud Capuçon.

En una triple función de solista, concertino y director, Renaud Capuçon, junto a la Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne ofreció un programa diverso en el que destacó especialmente la interpretación de la Primera sinfonía de Beethoven.

Confrontés à des partitions méconnues de Richard Strauss, le violoniste et le chef proposent une interprétation engagée et inspirée, au côté d'un Orchestre de Paris en belle forme.