Live, Video: Find classical music concert, opera, ballet and dance reviews | Fairytale Poem

Rafael Payare, Anthony McGill and the New York Philharmonic create some extraordinary moments in the course of an overall uneven concert of Gubaidulina, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.

Austrian percussionist Martin Grubinger delivers a memorable performance at Berlin's Staatsoper with a programme featuring Peter Eötvös and Tan Dun, under the baton of Gustavo Gimeno.

An uncharacteristically weak showing by Andris Nelsons and the Vienna Philharmonic took the air out of an otherwise impressive year for the festival.

“A Soviet artist's creative response to justified criticism” and Shostakovich's orchestration of music by Mussorgsky were at the heart of this BBC SO programme at the Barbican. 

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra's superb playing is constrained by the limits of streaming. 

Sous la direction d'Andris Nelsons, la phalange viennoise impressionne dans Chostakovitch et séduit dans Dvořák, dont la Symphonie n° 6 est sublime de douceur et de tendresse.

Die Philharmoniker zeigten einmal mehr ihre von Schostakowitsch gepriesene „glänzende Orchesterkultur”.