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A perennially unsettling pair of complementary post-war masterpieces, conducted by Andrey Boreyko, and a moving return to London for Gidon Kremer. 

What do you get for the composer who made – and also kind of broke – everything? Arnold Schoenberg’s well-documented phobia of the number 13 aside, he could not have asked for a superior tribute in his 150th anniversary year.

History was never more relevant than in this musical observance of a modern political milestone.

Fine Dutilleux celebration sandwiched between brilliant Schoenberg and patchy Mahler.

You can’t accuse Vladimir Jurowski of lacking ambition. This LPO concert of his, featuring artfully sequenced works by Beethoven, Schoenberg and Nono, was dedicated “to all the people in the world who are still suffering injustice”.

Avec son directeur musical Joshua Weilerstein, la formation lilloise a livré un programme poignant qui associait Un survivant de Varsovie de Schönberg et la Symphonie n° 13 « Babi Yar » de Chostakovitch.

Michel Tabachnik dirigeait l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Bruxelles dans un programme éclectique et prometteur qui n’a pas bénéficié d’une interprétation sans failles, même si les pièces les plus récentes ont été jouées avec une belle intelligence.