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After hosting 18 months of concerts without audience, Berwaldhallen comes back to life with the Baltic Sea Festival and its phenomenal opening concert as intelligent as it is overwhelming.

The inexhaustible maestro shared the stage with Johan Dalene, an exciting violinist seven decades his junior.

Mäkelä brought out the harmonic inventiveness and the unexpected lyrical character of the music. 

Andrew Staples creates an austere, monochrome semi-staging that's strangely appropriate to the times; Peter Mattei and John Lundgren lead an excellent cast.

Although filled with beauty and sweetly played, the fragmentation of the symphony felt too disruptive.

Bookending a concert with Die Seejungfrau and La Mer, Klaus Mäkelä and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra offered two very different musical depictions of water and the ocean.

In an unusually convincing concert performance, Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Finnish National Opera emphasised the lyrical aspects of Wagner's Das Rheingold.

Opening Stockholm’s Baltic Sea Festival, professionals and amateurs came together for a joyous and ultimately hopeful performance of Benjamin Britten’s story of Noah’s Ark.

Esa-Pekka Salonen brings the Baltic Sea Festival to an end in an eclectic, risk-taking programme of music by Biber, Beethoven and himself.

For all its ambition, the première of Jesper Nordin’s Emerging from Currents and Waves at the Baltic Sea Festival consisted of little more than slick surfaces and displays of overload

The Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra present two works at the Berwaldhallen that both look to the past and future.

Domingo Hindoyan conducts a cast of Swedish performers in Verdi’s masterpiece, for the Baltic Sea Festival.

A true audiovisual experience, Anders Hillborg's Aeterna, a collaboration with two Swedish film-makers, results in a compelling portrait of the fragility that underlies our relationship with our planet.

The music of Sibelius and Mahler may seem worlds apart, but this concert by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, celebrating Finland's centenary, proved that opposites can attract.

Bruckner's Symphony no. 7 is well played, but the overall picture lacks definition; Jonathan Biss gives an engaging performance of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto.

Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz’s seven minute Divertimento proves the most emotionally potent in a concert at the Baltic Sea Festival also featuring works by Shostakovich and Górecki.

Esa-Pekka Salonen and Yuja Wang at the Baltic Sea Festival.

Le chef finlandais retrouve l'orchestre qui l'a lancé et il le lui rend bien, dirigeant un Oiseau de feu d'anthologie et accompagnant Peter Mattei avec talent. Miklós Perenyi paraît plus à la peine dans Dutilleux.

Elle s'était distinguée pendant le premier confinement en interprétant à elle seule l'Octuor de Mendelssohn : la violoniste suédoise Malin Broman retrouve son public et des partenaires pour un concert réjouissant.