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As the BSO heads on an international tour, Andris Nelsons leads a program featuring Barber, Shostakovich and Dvořák. 

Naples was the first Italian date for the conductor who is leading the CSO on a European tour which includes 10 concerts all over Europe.

Where great things take effort, truly great things happen naturally. Shoji's Brahms was the highlight of the evening.  

The program also featured a compelling world premiere from composer Valerie Coleman and a stirring performance of Dvořák's “New World” Symphony.

After London's farewell to Bernard Haitink the evening before, Andrés Orozco-Estrada had a tough act to follow with the Vienna Philharmonic. We needn't have worried. 

Vengerov joined by violinist Rafter and oboist Manning dish up three delightful concerti by Bach in the first half, while in the second half, Vengerov conducts a thoroughly convincing account of Dvořák’s Symphony no. 9

Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral holds its own alongside more familiar American pieces by Adams and Barber plus the “New World” Symphony.

It was Omer Meir Wellber’s turn to conduct the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in its first concert of the new season, a programme of music by Dvořák and Bartók which promised to be the perfect antidote to the Daily Grind.

Attentive to the dynamics and tempi, Frang meshed her violin with the orchestra, naturally coming into the footlights or receding into an accompanying role when required. In effect, the performance had a feel of an improvisation.

The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra make Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony sound like new, while Alice Sara Ott’s joy in playing Mozart is palpable.  

An imperious Barry Douglas provided a magisterial Emperor Concerto in an otherwise disappointing concert from the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.

Alongside Filip Savić's performance of Vanhal's Double Bass Concerto in D major, Cristian Mandeal conducts a fine New World Symphony with the Belgrade Philharmonic. 

Tomáš Netopil directs ideal, ‘non-dairy’ performances of Mozart and Dvořák.

The Halle orchestra combined forces with a troup of actors to deliver a Beyond The Score analysis & performance of Dvorak's famous 9th Symphony (from the New World.)

For the first of three concerts at the Cadogan Hall, the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra gave a heavy account of Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 4, lightened by the graceful playing of Angela Hewitt, followed by a rich New World Symphony.

The fabulous new Narodowe Forum Muzyki in Wrocław presented a very original Silvester offering of Szymanowski, Grieg and Dvořák.

Young prodigy Serena Wang delights audiences in her performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 1 while the China Philharmonic's cautious approach falls flat.

The first performance of the Boston Symphony’s final program for 2016 fell on St Cecilia's Day. The patron saint of music must have been pleased to see the past, the present and the future join hands in a program anchored by two warhorses of the Romantic repertory.

The Politics of the New World Symphony: Euro-American Relations.

Assistant Conductor Joseph Young led a flat performance of the beloved Dvořák New World Symphony and violin soloist Joseph Swensen played an eccentric version of the Barber Violin Concerto. 

An energetic concert marked by a true dedication to the music. 

Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Smetana, Bartók and Dvořák in Manchester.

Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony and Hindemith’s Konzertmusik round out a very satisfying concert.

This young ensemble was curiously lacking in youthful energy in a concert of orchestral classics with a few too many fluffed notes. 

In the acoustic wizardry that is Concertgebouw Brugge, Jos van Immerseel and Anima Eterna deliver a feast for the intellect, if not for the senses, in their exploration of the great Czech composers.

Unexpected insights and fresh perspectives from period instrument performances by the OAE and Fischer of Smetana, Brahms and Dvořák forced the audience to listen to in a new way.

Rich gifts of from the distinctive OAE, with Vikoria Mullova adding austere authority to Brahms and Ádám Fischer bringing out all the colour in Dvořák's “New World” Symphony.

Opportunity planted the young Krzysztof Urbański on the Avery Fisher Hall podium in Dohnányi’s place, and occasion was right for his New York Philharmonic debut as he was joined by cellist Alisa Weilerstein for a satisfying night of Dvořák.

The Czech Phil's all-Czech programme showed them off in resplendent form.

The programme for Prom 62 featured two well loved symphonies. But anyone expecting familiarity was in for a shock: Sir Roger Norrington has highly individual views on this music.

  Sibelius’s Violin Concerto and Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony play to an enthusiastic Cleveland audience on a beautiful evening at the Blossom Festival.

While people gathered near big screens at the Museum Square to see the Dutch football team play, metres along the road another crowd gathered to hear the Gelders Orchestra play Dvořák's Cello Concerto and Ninth Symphony.

RSNO, Søndergård and Frang perform a thoughtful programme of dislocation and migration: Dean, Britten and Dvořák.

Marek Janowski has been the chief conductor of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2002. This concert of Beethoven, Britten and Dvořák found both conductor and orchestra on find form. 

Andrzej Panufnik was paired with Dvořák for this London Symphony Orchestra concert at the Barbican, conducted by Michael Francis and featuring Anne-Sofie Mutter.

This seemingly disjointed program from Jacques Lacombe and the Orchestra Symphonique de Montréal included music by Berlioz, Dvořák and Ravel, in addition to a new work by Serge Arcuri: all voyages of complementary but fundamentally different kinds.

For the 40th anniversary season opening gala of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, it was fitting that Music Director Jaap van Zweden should have chosen Bright Sheng’s Shanghai Overture, which was originally commissioned by the composer’s alma mater, the Shanghai Conservatory, for its own 80th anniversary in 2007.

For the second of their two Sydney programs, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra pretty much replicated the layout of the first: a short modernist work, a concerto featuring a string instrument, and, in the second half, a big romantic symphony.

This week’s Cleveland Orchestra concert program looks like the syllabus from a music appreciation course: Mozart’s Symphony no. 40 in G minor, and Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony no. 9 in E minor, “From the New World”.

When we think of America, Dvořák and Milhaud are not among the first set of composers to come to mind, but it turns out they deserve to be among the second.

It is not often you can say that the conductor’s outfit was as ornate and charming as the billed programme, but the entrance of a silver-coated Grzegorz Nowak proved that even a conductor’s first bow can be the perfect aesthetic prelude to an evening of similarly silvery, charming music.

The Dresden Philharmonic brought classy Brahms, Barber and Dvořák to Manchester as part of their UK tour in a forward-looking programme of musical new beginnings. If incisive thrust was occasionally lacking, they more than compensated with elegance all evening.

Aaron Copland was one of the most important American composers of the last century. The inclusion of his Clarinet Concerto and Dvořák’s Symphony no. 9 made this program one inspired by the US. The theme of this year’s Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival, Sea & You, of course suits this beautifully – after all, we hear the skyscrapers coming up from the sea in Dvořák’s symphony.

Some musicians have criticised Mozart’s music for being facile, almost too perfect, some even claiming that it lacks emotional depth. However it is difficult to accept this when listening to Mozart performed by pianist Stephen Hough. It is music which sparkles and glistens much like the water in the harbour surrounding Sydney Opera House, or that is usually the case.

The Robeco Summer Concerts at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam have for years now allowed lovers of classical music to still enjoy live music in the middle of summer when most orchestras are travelling or on a break. This year’s line-up is as impressive as ever, with many international orchestras gracing Amsterdam with their presence.

This late-season concert in the intimate BBC Hoddinott Hall was Thomas Søndergård’s first as Principal Conductor Designate of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, following his appointment to the role this week. The concert featured three pieces all looking to the future, in some way: Sibelius’ En Saga, a Prokofiev Violin Concerto and Dvořák’s New World Symphony.

Following his successful UK debut with the BBC Philharmonic last December in Stoke-on-Trent, the 22-year-old Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii made a widely-anticipated appearance at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester to a sold-out crowd.

Zwar wurden nicht alle höchsten Erwartungen gleich erfüllt, es überwogen aber doch noch weitaus die glücklichen Momente vergnüglicher Gelassenheit wie die deutlicher Kontraste.