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Expressive energy from Rachel Podger in two Mozart violin concertos, with a rare symphony and lively Haydn from Ian Page and the Mozartists.

Till Eulenspiegel and Ein Heldenleben frame Lisa Batiashvili playing Mozart's "Turkish" concerto. 

Isabelle Faust, Giovanni Antonini and the Italian period instrument ensemble Il Giardino Armonico gather again for Mozart's complete Violin Concertos.

Poetic and intelligent, violinist Stefan Jackiw shines in Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto while Hans Graf conducts a mighty Bruckner 7. 

A conductor-less concert of Violin Concertos and bagatelles fails to show orchestra and soloist off to their full potential.

The first sounds heard in Symphony Hall in 2022 were those of a full orchestral blast introducing a world premiere by HK Gruber.

Well-honed Mozart from Mutter protégée, but Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite steals the show in Singapore. 

Stravinsky came off more like a distillation of Mozartian than Bachian abstraction and the musicians responded with glee to the music's circus atmosphere.

An ideal homage to the "Swiss Stravinsky" on the 50th anniversary of his death.

The inexhaustible maestro shared the stage with Johan Dalene, an exciting violinist seven decades his junior.

Rustling trees, wandering cats and a laconic golden retriever grace the Tekfen Philharmonic Orchestra's festival opening concert.

The Soldier’s Story illustrated a thematic integration of ideas in a programme that was as diverse as it was bold.

The bond between Dohnányi and his old orchestra remains strong. 

Wearing two hats and exchanging the bow for the baton, Nikolaj Znaider performs Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto and conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.

Isabelle Faust and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment find steely freshness in Mozart, with brooding intensity and accentuated twists and turns in Haydn and CPE Bach.

This was one of those concert programmes that you will only find at the Proms – a richly varied group of works by Bayan Northcott, Mozart and Zemlinsky.

Pinchas Zukerman celebrated the 45th anniversary of his Cleveland Orchestra debut with Mozart’s “Turkish” concerto.

Arrangements aplenty as the Australian Chamber Orchestra take on Bach's Art of Fugue and Beethoven's Op.130, with Richard Tognetti the accomplished soloists in Mozart's Violin Concerto no. 5.

Sir Andrew Davis conducted the RLPO in a programme of Mozart and Bruckner, with Esther Yoo as violinist in Mozart's “Turkish” concerto.

A potpourri of styles and chronology portrayed effectively by Edo de Waart, Augustin Hadelich, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Karina Cannelakis and Hong Kong Phil excite and please with disparate programme of Mozart and Strauss. 

An all-Mozart Filarmonica della Scala concert with soloists Vilde Frang and Hanna-Elisabeth Müller under conductor Marc Minkowski's lacked cohesion.

A dark, intense performance of Tchaikovsky's Manfred, the black sheep of his symphonic canon, is the highlight of Vladimir Ashkenazy's latest concert with the Philharmonia. 

Nested in the warmth of Cadogan Hall, Camerata Salzburg and Ben Gernon brought life to Mozart's eternal music whose multi-faceted joy carried in its wake the British violinist Nicola Benedetti.

Gerd Schaller, the Munich Philharmonic Choir and Philharmonie Festiva present a successful revival of an almost forgotten Mass by Johann Herbeck, and Olga Pogorelova plays heavenly Mozart at the spa town of Bad Kissingen.

Maxim Vengerov and the Polish Chamber Orchestra's concert at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, turned out to be a concert of three halves, thanks to the substantial encores of Saint-Saëns.

Verdi and Wagner may be turning 200 in 2013, but certainly that doesn’t make their music any more or less worth celebrating than it was last year, or will be in five years’ time.

In 1930 a seven-year-old boy was walking along a street in the misty city of Lwów (then Poland, now Ukraine) when he heard music coming from an open window: He was transfixed: “I was in a trance. I was in heaven – the world didn’t exist for me.” So shattered was he by the experience that he fell ill with a fever.

While several of the world’s orchestras are struggling to pay their players, never mind expand, Stavanger has just built a new £100 million concert hall, its interior a triumph of acoustic engineering and its public side with airy atriums and bars looking across attractive bays. This celebratory concert to mark the Konserthus’ opening was heavily packed and warmly received.

Part of the King’s Place Mozart Unwrapped series, the Aurora Orchestra delivered a spellbinding performance Thursday night.Due to Sir Colin Davis’ sudden illness, principal conductor Nicholas Collon stepped in at the last minute to conduct the concert. While it would have been a unique opportunity to see such an esteemed British conductor, Nicholas Collon was an exciting substitution.

La Franz Schubert Filharmonia ofreció la quinta sinfonía de Beethoven en una versión de tiempos moderados que sirvió de colofón a una vibrante interpretación de la violinista Lisa Batiashvili.

El titular de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, González-Monjas, asumió el doble papel de solista y director en tres obras para violín y orquesta en la perfecta intimidad del Salón Regio del Círculo de las Artes de Lugo.

La excelente formación Sinfonia Varsovia ofreció en el Festival de Música de Canarias un brillante concierto con Pinchas Zukerman en el doble papel de solista y director.

Invité pour la première fois par la phalange parisienne, le chef britannique a dirigé une Cinquième de Mahler bien organisée mais qui a manqué de consistance pour être exaltante.

Dans un passionnant programme qui mettait en avant la dimension concertante du style classique, l'ensemble autrichien et la violoniste néerlandaise ont parlé la même langue.

En una triple función de solista, concertino y director, Renaud Capuçon, junto a la Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne ofreció un programa diverso en el que destacó especialmente la interpretación de la Primera sinfonía de Beethoven.

El Festival de Santander llega a su recta final con un original programa dominado por Mozart y Schubert y la maestría de la violinista Hilary Hahn.

Un enérgico concierto de Mozart, lleno de expresividad a cargo de la violinista Janine Jansen, sonó entre un meritorio Ligeti y una muy bien engranada Quinta sinfonía de Prokofiev en la dirección de David Afkham.

La jeune soliste belge s'est montrée éblouissante dans le Cinquième Concerto de Mozart aux côtés du Brussels Philharmonic dirigé par Dirk Vermeulen.

Le violoniste-chef a témoigné d'une belle complicité avec la phalange alsacienne dans l'intégrale des cinq concertos mozartiens.

La Wiener KammerOrchester debuta en el ciclo de La Filarmónica ofreciendo un virtuosismo diferente de la mano de Fumiaki Miura y Varvara Nepomnyashchaya.

El violinista y director francés David Grimal presentó su reveladora concepción de los conciertos de Mozart junto a la Sinfónica de Galicia en formato reducido.

Les Grands Interprètes paraient à ce phénomène, pour leur second concert de la saison, en invitant l’ensemble du Giardino Armonico, cofondé et dirigé depuis 1989 par Giovanni Antonini, pour un programme entièrement classique.

Als Zuhörer geriet man ganz in den Sog dieser faszinierenden Musik: eine Meisterleistung sowohl auf Seiten des Dirigenten wie des Orchesters!

Die junge Violinistin Vilde Frang spielt den jungen Mozart und Jukka-Pekka Saraste dirigiert das WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln durch die Wagner-Sinfonie. Zwei Jahrhunderte, zwei Glanzstücke der Musikgeschichte und vor allem zwei besondere Musiker begeistern das Salzburger Publikum.