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“Go big or go home!” A new season opens with the CBSO and Chorus giving an epic Beethoven Ninth at Birmingham's Symphony Hall. 

Ziyu He makes light of the fiendish difficulties in Stravinsky's Violin Concerto at the Esplanade Concert Hall. 

While Stravinsky and Britten tuck away their sentiments and melodies, the debate about Shostakovich’s Fifth seems finally to be settled.

Razor sharp precision from Nelsons and the BSO in Shostakovich and Stravinsky, with intensely expressive playing from Michael Zaretsky and Randall Hodgkinson in Eda Rapoport's Poem.

Another classic Rattle concert produced a very strong sense of occasion at the Barbican. Sir Simon is certainly making his mark on the London concert scene...

Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra – premiered by the BSO under Serge Koussevitzky and a familiar calling card ever since – opens the new season.

A programme of new music and 20th-century classics reflects on loss, war, inhumanity and redemption. 

Nicholas Collon and the BBC Philharmonic play two pieces by Stravinsky, Sibelius and Beethoven in a fine concert at Bridgewater Hall.

Franz Welser-Möst leads a compelling performance of the seldom-heard Threni.

In the first concert of their exciting series Stravinsky: Myth and Ritual celebrating the varied musical inspirations of this most iconic figure of 20th-century composers, the focus was on Rituals. 

Sir Mark Elder conducted a superb account of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony alongside colourful Stravinsky and elegant Mendelssohn at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.For Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments, the orchestra’s woodwind and brass sections were divided in the middle of the stage.

Sir George Benjamin begeistert mit Werken von Oliver Knussen, Unsuk Chin, Igor Strawinsky und György Ligeti.

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.

Le programme de la saison musicale à Mulhouse s'est enrichi le 12 novembre d'un nouveau concert. L'orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse sous la direction de Patrick Davin était associé à des invités qui comptent. Le compositeur allemand  Johannes Schöllhorn, les Neue Vocalsolisten de Stuttgart, enfin le violoniste Nemanja Radulovic dont l'originalité le dispute à la virtuosité.