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Karina Canellakis brings a riot of Technicolor to the Edinburgh International Festival, but countertenor Hugh Cutting threatens to steal the show in Chichester Psalms.

Karina Canellakis conducts a program at the New York Philharmonic of works tied to the mystical or ineffable, with astonishing clarity.

Substitute contralto Avery Amerau makes a fine Boston Symphony Orchestra debut in a top notch evening of (mostly) French music.

Two unusual French orchestral works bring a unity to a Philharmonic Hall programme mixing the familiar and the unfamiliar. 

Power of three: Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä makes his London debut in four works by a trio of composers... three of them in triptych form. 

Conductor Thierry Fischer steps in at short notice to conduct an early work by Messiaen, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major – a triumph for all concerned.

The young Finnish conductor, stepping in on short notice, led an incandescent performance of Beethoven’s Symphony no. 7. Augustin Hadelich was an excellent soloist in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no. 2.

Contrasting works as the Sydney Symphony tackles Les Offrandes oubliées and Bruckner's Seventh Symphony.

Characteristic attention made high-precision textures glisten even in this difficult acoustic. No tears required. On the basis of this performance, Mexican youth music is in fine shape.

Hong Kong Sinfonietta in a mixed bag of Messiaen, Mozart and Beethoven. 

Conductor Alexandre Bloch thrills in a diverse programme of Messiaen, Haydn, and Schubert. 

Baiba Skride and Tugan Sokhiev joined the LSO at the Barbican for Messiaen, Bartók and Tchaikovksy. It was a memorable evening that demonstrated why the best performances are not necessarily the most faultless ones.

RSNO music director Peter Oundjian conducted his orchestra in three contrasting pieces, joined for Beethoven's Emperor concerto by Nikolai Lugansky.

“Synesthesia” is a neurological condition that causes an involuntary sensory experience to be provoked from an initial stimulation of a different sensory or cognitive pathway – for instance, automatically associating colors with numbers, letters, or sounds. Olivier Messiaen, a 20th-century French composer, organist, and ornithologist, “heard” colors in all music, whether tonal, modal, or serial.

My last encounter with conductor Susanna Mälkki was her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic two and a half years ago. I was impressed with her crisp style of conducting that delivered near-seismic impact in Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra.

While several of the world’s orchestras are struggling to pay their players, never mind expand, Stavanger has just built a new £100 million concert hall, its interior a triumph of acoustic engineering and its public side with airy atriums and bars looking across attractive bays. This celebratory concert to mark the Konserthus’ opening was heavily packed and warmly received.

Nacho de Paz y la Orquestra de València inician el año con un exigente programa formado por obras de Scriabin y Messiaen. 

Le soir de l'officialisation de sa nomination en tant que futur directeur musical de la formation, le chef a montré l'étendue de ce qu'il pouvait apporter à l'orchestre dans une formidable Septième de Bruckner.

López-Ferrer ofrece un cohesionado programa a pesar de la diversidad en las obras al frente de una Orquesta de RTVE extrovertida y precisa.

Klaus Mäkeläs zog mit seinem Dirigat selbst die Zuschauer zuhause vor dem Bildschirm in seinen Bann.

À la tête de l'Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, le jeune chef scandinave a livré une interprétation personnelle et intense d’œuvres phares du répertoire français, aidé par le violoncelliste István Várdai.

Fazil Say « par l’auteur », (K)ein Sommernachtstraum d’Alfred Schnittke, Messiaen et Chostakovitch. Un programme exemplaire, et une salle qui aurait mérité d’être pleine !

Den Philharmonikern gelang ein gut aufeinander abgestimmtes, fein nuanciertes Zusammenspiel, mit dem sie die ganz unterschiedlich vertonte, tiefe Geistlichkeit der drei französischen Werke gekonnt herausarbeiteten.

A la tête du LSO, Valery Gergiev a présenté à Paris un programme transeuropéen : Messiaen, Chopin et Scriabine. Mystique dans les Offrandes oubliées et le Divin Poème, il s'est révélé plus terne dans le Deuxième concerto pour piano, interprété par la jeune star Daniil Trifonov.