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The familiar qualities of blend and precision were in evidence in familiar works by Respighi and Tchaikovsky, as well as George Walker's thorny but arresting Antifonys. 

It's a game of two halves in Barcelona from Kazushi Ono and the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya.

One of the pleasures of live music-making is seeing as well as hearing: one gets a sense of a performance as a multi-layered communicative act rather than solely as a sequence of beautiful sounds. In Saturday evening’s ACO concert with the extraordinary cellist Giovanni Sollima as soloist, the visual dimension contributed more than usual to the effect of the whole. 

The Klassische Philharmonie Bonn performs Respighi, Beethoven and Mozart in Berlin's Konzerthaus.

Eine "klassische", auf Klarheit und Transparenz bedachte Interpretation, mindestens ebenbürtig zu denen bekannter Spitzenorchester, in manchen Aspekten sogar überlegen: wo sonst bekommt man Rachmaninow in dieser Klarheit geboten?