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The Seattle Symphony offers an enchanting evening immersed in the joy and brilliance of both the young and the mature genius of Felix Mendelssohn.

Guest conductor Riccardo Minasi leads the West Australian Symphony Orchestra with a program of old favourites, with outstanding contribution from trumpeter Jenna Smith

The Oxford Philharmonic offers uninspiring renditions Bach and Mendelssohn, highlighting both the strengths and weaknesses of the orchestra under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach. 

Montreal-bred Karen Gomyo steals the show in Dvořák's Violin Concerto with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal under guest conductor John Storgårds. 

The Singapore Symphony's annual presidential concert is distinguished by two prodigious piano talents, Toby Tan and Adrian Tang. 

Sir Bryn Terfel is at the Royal Opera House for the new Peter Grimes, so Captain Balstrode could cross the Thames to sing some Lieder. 

A rare outing for Lili Boulanger's D'un matin de printemps lay at the dewy centre of this spring–summer seasonal programme.  

With Semyon Bychkov on the podium, the orchestra offers a stirring tribute and music fit for a king.

So full of youthful vigor was this concert that it was hard to believe that Haitink is now 90 years old.

In this afternoon Prom, Joshua Bell disappointed as a conductor. As a soloist, however, he came up with the goods.

In a study of shifting form, tonight's dedication to the bard paired Mendelssohn's incidental music to the play with another work inspired by The Metamorphoses: Matthias Pintscher's mesmerising Reflections on Narcissus.

The Bard met with boisterous performances in the LPO's latest instalment of Shakespeare400, but Khachaturian's Violin Concerto emerged with much subtlety.

Shakespeare's Nick Bottom, who claimed “a reasonable good ear in music” would surely have approved of these performances at the Barbican Hall. 

Garsington’s first collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company married an abridgement of Shakespeare’s play with Mendelssohn’s incidental music, a union which promised much but which stumbled awkwardly.

A Mozart symphony in the second half of this Houston Symphony concert could hardly compete with Augustin Hadelich playing Bartók. 

The Philhamonia Orchestra on fine form, with characterful Mahler from Markus Werba, and assured dynamic control, enthusiasm and energy from Karl-Heinz Steffens.

Conductor, Andris Nelsons, once again demonstrated his affinity with Richard Strauss in a magnificent performance of his tone poem, Symphonia Domestica.

The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra revels in magic and the supernatural.

Mozart and Mendelssohn are surely two of the most popular composers for both the seasoned elitist and the irregular classical listener; tonight’s offering of time-tested favourites wrapped in the summer breeze of familiarity, coupled with the rare and exciting prospect of hearing Mendelssohn’s complete incidental music for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was likely to be a draw – and it w

Canada has been taking an active role to build concert programs featuring its own musical talents. One proponent organization of this is the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Led by a team of dedicated administrative individuals, volunteers and musicians, the TSO provides an indispensable platform to showcase our Canadian talents to the community at large.

The Oxford International Piano Festival comprises a two-week long series of workshops and concerts, hosted by Oxford Philomusica and featuring pianists of international esteem, among them Andreas Haefliger and Sergei Babayan. It was Menahem Pressler, now in his 88th year, who gave the closing piano masterclasses and performed in the closing concert at the Sheldonian Theatre.

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.

Ein nicht alltägliches Programm, ein origineller Interpretationsansatz und verschwenderische Zugaben begeistern das Publikum in der Tonhalle Zürich.

Sieg für Mozart: Flötensolist Emmanuel Pahud glänzt im Zusammenspiel mit der Kammerakademie Potsdam unter Antonello Manacorda.

Après le cycle de mélodies berlioziennes, Gardiner et son Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique ont proposé un Songe d’une nuit d’été particulièrement incarné, sous la brise fraîche de La Côte-Saint-André.

Anastasia Kobekina präsentiert sich als gefestigte, überzeugende musikalische Persönlichkeit, während das Orchester an der Grenze der Überforderung arbeitet.