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The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Douglas Boyd offer colour, energy and sparkle while Steven Osborne demonstrates a sure touch in one of his favourite concertos.

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe under conductor Bernard Haitink dazzled the Lucerne Festival audience with a programme of works by Mendelssohn and Schubert. 

A disappointing pairing of Berlioz and Mendelssohn from a conductorless Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. 

The Philadelphia connection continues in Montreal with Kensho Watanabe leading the Orchestre Métropolitain in an all-Mendelssohn program.

Who would have thought a program of water sprites and revolutions spanning 200 years could be so seamless? 

The first of the two Proms by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra featured an all-Mendelssohn programme. The orchestra has a long tradition of performing Mendelssohn’s music, as he was their Music Director from 1835 until his early death in 1847.

À l’invitation de l’Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn, Ibrahim Maalouf est revenu avec succès au répertoire classique, mais la rencontre avec la cheffe allemande Johanna Malangré a manqué de synergie.

Mit den Suiten aus Hänsel und Gretel sowie Schwanensee und der Ouvertüre zum Märchen von der schönen Melusine stimmte das recreation – großes Orchester Graz auf Weihnachten ein.

Emmanuel Krivine dirige l'Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon dans la Pastorale de Beethoven, Mélusine et l’Italienne de Mendelssohn.