Live, Video: Find classical music concert, opera, ballet and dance reviews | Symphony no. 4 in F minor, Op.36

Music Director Emeritus Riccardo Muti led the Chicagoans in smoldering Bellini, vividly realized Verdi and revitalized Tchaikovsky.

A well-known rhapsody and symphony bracket Adolphus Hailstork's 1992 Piano Concerto in an all-around convincing performance featuring exciting soloist Stewart Goodyear.

Under its new Chief Conductor Paavo Järvi, Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra features a riveting programme of works by Tchaikovsky and Copland with clarinettist Martin Fröst as soloist.

I’ve heard the Japan Philharmonic on several occasions in the past, but this was the first time with Inkinen, and the difference was startling. In previous encounters with this orchestra I noted a rather bright, at times even glaring sound. No longer. Inkinen has instilled instead a generously warm, even, glowing sonority and depth of sound that one hears in Europe’s finest ensembles.