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Gustavo Gimeno leads the Toronto Symphony in a programme of absorbing musical abstraction and storytelling, let down by a banal new trombone concerto.

Alenandre Kantorow storms the Proms with an eloquent account of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. matched by a full-blooded Shostakovich 10 from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko.  

A young conductor and a venerable orchestra unite in Berlin for three 20th-century works, covering vastly different soundscapes. 

For their first and last ever visit to the Proms, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg and François-Xavier Roth gave a thrilling concert of 20th-century masterpieces, celebrating a rich history of creative inspiration.

In the final concert of Muti's winter residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, he presented one of his most varied programs to date with repertoire spanning nearly two centuries. 

The London Philharmonic Orchestra certainly pulled out all the stops with a Rest is Noise programme that, in theory, should have scared the horses half to death. A concert of three large orchestral works from height of the 1960/70s avant garde, and featuring composers from behind the Iron Curtain to boot, is a very rare beast indeed.

Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra planned to visit Hungary. but the tour didn't come off for reasons beyond their control. But the programmes they chose remained for the two London concerts on 26th and 29th January at the Royal Festival Hall. Big, complex programmes, held together by their references to separate Austrian and Hungarian traditions.

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

Sous la direction du chef des Siècles, l'Orchestre National de France produit une interprétation inégale de deux chefs-d'œuvre du compositeur (Atmosphères et Lontano), convaincant davantage dans Le Mandarin merveilleux de Bartók.

Nacho de Paz debutó al frente de la Orquestra de València en Ensems con un programa actual, interesante y bien trabajado.

Le programme choisi par Sir George Benjamin pour le DSO nous plonge dans les théories modernes de l’utilisation du son orchestral, de Paul Dukas à Benjamin lui-même, avec le concours efficace de Cédric Tiberghien.

Unter der Leitung von Kirill Petrenko gestaltete das Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper mit Diana Damrau ein Programm, das mit atemberaubender Intensität von den Schattenseiten des Lebens berichtete.

Ein Komponistenklassentreffen der anderen Art: Ligeti, Purcell und Strauss ikommen im Wiener Konzerthaus zusammen.