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Elim Chan and Igor Levit make successful Boston Symphony debuts performing Brahms' Second Piano Concerto. 

Michael Tilson Thomas is an old friend of the LSO and his precise and expressive presence on the podium produced fine musical results all round. 

Rarities by Akimenko and Arutiunian on a musical menu designed by Kirill Karabits, but served in his absence by Martyn Brabbins. 

Georgia Jarman proves a flamboyant soloist in Szymanowski's Love Songs of Hafiz. 

A terrific climax to the 2019 Pärnu Music Festival, with outstanding performances from Ain Anger and the Estonian Festival Orchestra.

Chailly is beefing up the orchestra's sound and honing its style through an intensive collaboration that has borne tours, recording projects and frequent appearances in Milan.

Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO cut an unusual slice of Russian music, with energetic performances of five works from four composers and Steven Isserlis outstanding in Prokofiev's Cello Concerto.

Though the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s programme used all the traditional ingredients for a concert of Russian music, it improved the recipe considerably with very special flavours.

Opportunities missed to exploit dynamic contrast in Xian Zhang's Roman Festivals with the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

In the final concert of Muti's winter residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, he presented one of his most varied programs to date with repertoire spanning nearly two centuries. 

Prom 30 saw the return of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under its Conductor Laureate Gianandrea Noseda with a Russian-themed programme. Prokofiev, Borodin and Tchaikovsky were played alongside Edward Cowie’s BBC commission and world première Earth Music I – The Great Barrier Reef.The Borodin overture and Polovtsian dances from Prince Igor served as an energy-injection to the start of the evening.

Sitting in the seats at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts auditorium in Astoria, the boisterous, catchy tunes of Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to West Side Story rang out. Crisp, clean, and excitedly performed, it was a great start to an evening of what Maestro Silas Nathaniel Huff called ‘Riffs and Dances’.

El violonchelista Santiago Cañón-Valencia ofreció una magnífica versión del Concierto para chelo de Shostakovich bajo la batuta del también colombiano Juan Pablo Valencia.

Christian Vásquez al frente de la Sinfónica de Galicia da unidad a un programa variado que contó con el colorismo de Bautista y Flores y la riqueza sonora de Chaikovski.

Valery Gergiev und Denis Matsuev laden zu einem Tschaikowsky-Fest voller Glückseligkeit.

Au programme, les Deuxième et Quatrième Symphonies de Tchaïkovski, servies par des musiciens de haut vol.

Riccardo Chailly et la Filarmonica della Scala étaient de passage à la Philharmonie de Paris, pour un concert entièrement consacré à la musique russe. Analyse d'une interprétation inégale.

Jurowski y la London Philharmonic llevaron a cabo una exégesis justa, prevenida contra toda grandilocuencia y que supo generar la atmósfera adecuada.

Leonard Slatkin et l’Orchestre national de Lyon content Tchaïkovski en délicatesse

Une bien belle soirée au Victoria Hall qui aura trouvé son sommet dans le concerto pour piano de Brahms, servi impeccablement par Francesco Piemontesi, après quelques errements dans les méandres des fleuves russes.