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Under the leadership of Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko, the Berliners produced a deep, muscular and forward sound that invigorated familiar music.

The Isle of the Dead and The Bells make gloomy bookends to the final concert of the season, but Mihhail Gerts makes a great case for both at the National Concert Hall. 

A doom-laden trip to Dante's Inferno via Shakespeare's star-cross'd lovers and a voyage across the lake to The Isle of the Dead. 

Dima Slobodeniouk’s Cleveland Orchestra program included music by Rachmaninov and Nielsen, along with a Liszt piano concerto with Marc-André Hamelin.

The BBC Philharmonic on dazzling form with Rachmaninov, Shostakovich... and a bewitching new work by Outi Tarkiainen.

Viotti will return to La Scala to conduct Gounod's Roméo et Juliette in 2020. The programme this time round gave an indication of some of the positive qualities to expect. It also warned of some potential pitfalls.

Stephen Hough delivers an exciting account of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto no. 1 while the sparks from a speedy Beethoven's Symphony no. 7 fail to ignite. 

Jurowski is a wonderful conductor to watch. He carves shapes through his bearing and gesture cleanly, and his indications are crisp and defined - yet he retains poetic fluidity through his hands at all times.

In a romantic, colourful jaunt which led from The Isle of the Dead to The Great Gate of Kiev, Gustavo Dudamel and the Vienna Philharmonic presented an easy to love programme focussed on late-romantic masters who found musical inspiration in artistic masterpieces.

The energising figure of Vladimir Ashkenazy presided over this all-Russian programme in a concert that showcased the prodigious gifts of Denis Kozhukhin.

Sir Mark Elder conducted the Hallé in a fine Shostakovich 15 following moving performances of Rachmaninov's The Isle of the Dead and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, expertly sung by Roderick Williams.

Like a rash over London’s concert halls, Rachmaninov (or Rachmaninoff if you prefer) is everywhere this season – not that I’m complaining.

Gianandrea Noseda, principal guest conductor of the Israel Philharmonic and former chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, made his Cleveland Orchestra debut this weekend in works by Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, and the Cleveland première of Nino Rota’s Trombone Concerto, with the orchestra’s principal trombone Massimo LaRosa as soloist. All concerned turned in solid performances.

Rachmaninov’s symphonic poem The Isle of the Dead is an intense piece of music. Inspired by a painting by Böcklin, Rachmaninov tells us of the journey to the underworld. The first moments of the piece are crucial to any performance, and Valery Gergiev lead the Rotterdam Philharmonic into a heavy and emotionally laden rendition.

At first glance, Sir Antonio Pappano was not the obvious choice for a programme of twentieth-century orchestral works.

The programme for last night's London Philharmonic concert at the Royal Festival Hall was wall-to-wall Late Romantic, with the first half consisting of three very different works linked by the theme of death. We opened with Rachmaninov's symphonic poem The Isle of the Dead, inspired by a painting by the Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin.

Sous la direction du chef russe, la phalange bavaroise montre sa belle palette sonore dans Rachmaninov et Strauss. Atmosphères de Ligeti convainc moins, de même que le Concerto en sol de Ravel avec Hélène Grimaud.

Trotz der kurzen Probenzeit spielten die Philharmoniker und Saraste in der Isarphilharmonie ein packendes Programm symphonischer Dichtungen.

José Trigueros se ponía al frente de la Sinfónica de Galicia por segunda vez con un programa complejo que incluyó el tercer concierto de Rachmaninov con Simon Trpčeski como solista.

Une soirée de feu mélânt orgue, harpe, percussions, danse et mise en lumière célébre les Lumières lyonnaises. 

Ein philharmonischer Malkurs mit Gustavo Dudamel im Wiener Konzerthaus.