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The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra opens the Istanbul Music Festival featuring a showstopping, all-singing, all-conducting Gershwin finale. 

The composer's powerful When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd anchored a thought-provoking program led by Michael Stern.

Three Haydn symphonies grace the bill in Järvi's onging project which started in earnest last year in Vienna.

The celebrated soprano leads the students of the Juilliard in an enjoyable concert that falters on the side of keeping an even keel.

Is there any instrument more bittersweet than the viola? The violin does the acrobatics, the cello is more conventionally beautiful, but the viola sits in the middle of the orchestral palette like no other instrument. Neither high nor low, it’s perfectly placed to embody the contradictory and the conflicted, ideal for a sense of desire denied or of fulfilment deferred.

Franz Welser-Möst conducted the concert, which also included the world première of Anthony Cheung's Topos and two Haydn symphonies.

Dickensian good cheer and humour make for a remarkably satisfying performance from Oue, Fray and the NSO.

Pour son premier concert au Québec, la trompettiste Lucienne Renaudin Vary offre une interprétation convaincante des concertos de Haydn et Hummel aux côtés d'un chef et d'un orchestre gonflés à bloc.

Koopman nos trasladó a un mundo mucho más festivo, folklórico y en definitiva, mucho más real y cercano