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The London Philharmonic welcomes back its Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski for a typically challenging programme of dark Russian and Ukrainian scores.

“A Soviet artist's creative response to justified criticism” and Shostakovich's orchestration of music by Mussorgsky were at the heart of this BBC SO programme at the Barbican. 

The Martha Argerich Festival minus Martha Argerich on this occasion, but ending with a Russian pièce de résistance.  

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

Gražinytė-Tyla conveyed the impression of allowing her players a certain freedom to express themselves while commanding the overall forces towards a preset goal.

Recitals of Russian song don't have to be suffocated with doom and gloom. Neither do they have to be built upon the works of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov.

Volkov conducts BBC SSO in a Russian retelling, with acclaimed bass, Yuri Vorobiev. 

András Schiff and Hanno Müller-Brachmann make a perfect musical pair. On the one hand, Schiff, staunch lover of the old masters and one of the only pianists left on the circuit who will regularly do a Beethoven or a Well-Tempered Clavier cycle, is as unflashy as you like, moderate, serious.

Amsterdam Sinfonietta offered a program with three Russians and a French composer, and, perhaps more interestingly, featured three works orchestrated by other composers.

Du fameux trio de Beethoven aux lieder et aux sonates de Schubert, le premier week-end du Festival de la Grange de Meslay a proposé un cheminement admirable dans un répertoire en clair-obscur.

Un viaje entre lo trivial y lo emocional del lied ruso de mano de Ekaterina Semenchuk y Semjon Skigin.

Christian Gerhaher und Gerold Huber nutzen die Musik als Ausdrucksform der Trauer, als Vehikel für unglaublich poetische Texte über Liebe und Tod.

Mit einem ungewöhnlich politischen Thema beeindruckt die niederländische Erstaufführung von Speak out.