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Outstanding performances of two Florent Schmitt scores anchor a winning concert by the Orchestre National de France at the Maison de la Radio. 

Conductor-composer John Adams put his own work in conversation with Ravel and Stravinsky.

It was only in the final moments of The Firebird that the orchestra let themselves go, following a series of sensitive and transparent performances.

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 latest concert in the LPO's “Changing Faces: Stravinsky’s Journeys” series focussed on storytelling of the symphonic kind. 

Dutoit, Lugansky and the HK Phil perform at their finest in famous French and Russian repertoire.

Yuja Wang’s blazing Shostakovich First Piano Concerto and MTT’s stellar Firebird blended into a cohesive narrative at Davies Hall that showed us how successful performances can coincide with successful programming. 

Gergiev bows out of his tenure with the London Symphony Orchestra with a scrumptious programme of Stravinsky and Bartók.

For the second of his two concerts conducting the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit presented a program consisting of highly contrasting works by Stravinsky and Mendelssohn, including Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, celebrating the 100th anniversary of work’s first performance in 1913.

When recession strikes, Stravinsky’s your man! Nothing is wasted and everything is convertible. The fact that his world and style had changed beyond recognition between beginning his opera, Le Chant du Rossignol in 1908 and finishing it in 1914 – three epoch-changing ballets later – did not seem to faze him.

Con el complejo Concierto para violín de Elgar en las exquisitas manos de Frank Peter Zimmermann y la brillantez de la música de Stravinsky, la Sinfonica de Galicia concluyó la presente temporada.

Qui de mieux que John Adams pour diriger un concert américain ? L'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France s'est associé au fameux compositeur pour un concert prometteur mais finalement frustrant, notamment dans la création du jour.

En point d'orgue d'une tournée hivernale, l'Orchestre Français des Jeunes investit la Philharmonie de Paris. Un concert rempli de promesses pour l'avenir de la scène symphonique française.

À travers l’Orient fantasmé des compositeurs français, c’était un autoportrait vocal que nous offrait Sabine Devieilhe à la Philharmonie. 

Le chef autrichien HK Gruber est l'invité d'honneur de la saison de l'OPS : avec une énergie communicative, il emmène l'orchestre dans un programme autour de la modernité.