The Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla in a compelling performance of Mozart's overture to Don Giovanni and Strauss's Don Juan, with soloist Francesca Dego bringing to life Mozart’s Violin Concerto no. 4 in D major.
Concluding Gardiner's Schumann cycle, it was a memorable concert, with a memorable Spring Symphony and a musical Manfred Overture. The Beethoven first piano concerto proved an unlikely hero.
Under the baton of John Storgårds, Vilde Frang made her Cleveland Orchestra debut in Britten's Violin Concerto, with works of Antheil and Schumann rounding out a diverse selection.
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jansons treated the Lucerne Festival audience to works by Schumann and Bernstein. But it was pianist Matsuev’s Rachmaninov that electrified the hall.
The Romantic fervour of Brahms' Haydn Variations and Schumann's Spring Symphony brought out by Cristian Mandeal and the Hallé, plus Sophia Jaffé's glorious performance of Bruch's Scottish Fantasy.
The 2015 Master Series of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra opened with a programme of Schumann and Mendelssohn put together with excellent taste and scholarly insight.
Could the Berlin Philharmonic live up to the standards set by other famous orchestras earlier in the Musikfest? As it turned out, the performance of Brahms' Symphony no. 1 under Rattle was my highlight of the festival.
Schumann and Brahms are linked together by their great friendship, their musical influences on each other, and, of course, by Schumann’s wife, Clara, who was one of the most important people in Brahms’ life.
C’est un Théâtre des Champs-Élysées archi-comble qui a accueilli la phalange autrichienne et son chef Mariss Jansons pour un concert réunissant la Symphonie n° 1de Schumann et la fameuse Symphonie fantastique de Berlioz.
À la Maison Symphonique de Montréal, l'Orchestre Métropolitain et le violoncelliste Maximilian Hornung ont livré une prestation admirable, sous la direction inspirée de Jordan de Souza.
L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande revient avec Marek Janowski en terres germaniques, pour un concert intégralement consacré à Robert Schumann. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt s'illustre dans le Concerto pour violoncelle.
Limpísimos agudos que cortaban el aire, pizzicati precisos y resonantes y un fraseo refinado, convirtieron la escucha de estas piezas en el equivalente a encapsular una sinfonía mahleriana en diez minutos de música.
Als Einleitung zum Konzert wäre diese Leistung wohl über die beiden anderen Werke vergessen gegangen. So aber wurde das Publikum mit der Erinnerung an ein kleines Glanzstück nach Hause entlassen.
