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Bookending a concert with Die Seejungfrau and La Mer, Klaus Mäkelä and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra offered two very different musical depictions of water and the ocean.

Whoever curated last night’s BBC SO concert, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, needs a medal. Not only were the pieces united by virtue of being composed at the same time during the dark years of the First World War, but also each composer seems to find something passionately troubled to say which reflected their vintage – an unusual combination of neglected works, two of which are masterpieces.

Dreams and anxieties, religious and otherwise, were the dominant themes at Thursday night’s New York Philharmonic performance. The concert program worked backwards in time, starting with Phantasmata by composer-in-residence Christopher Rouse (completed in 1985), followed by Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo (1916), and finishing with Brahms’ Symphony no. 1 (published in 1877).

La violoncelliste suisse d'origine argentine a bouleversé le public toulousain dans Schelomo d'Ernest Bloch, avant que le directeur musical de l'ONCT ne joue la carte des contrastes exacerbés dans la Première Symphonie de Mahler.

Dans un chatoyant programme post-romantique allant de Strauss à López Bellido, la complicité entre la soliste, le chef et l'orchestre ont ébloui le public bruxellois.

Das Concertgebouw Orchester erzählt in einem hinreißenden Programm von Strauss, Bloch und López Bellido mythische Geschichten.

Salle Pierre Boulez, l’Orchestre de Paris a retrouvé, pour la nouvelle année, un de ses chefs légendaires : Christoph Eschenbach, accompagné du violoncelliste Julian Steckel en soliste, présente un concert en forme de voyage.

Das Luzerner Sinfonieorchester bezauberte mit selten gespielten Werken von Respighi und Bloch im KKL.