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Led by celebrated Chinese conductor Long Yu, the Hong Kong Philharmonic shines in Schönberg’s bold Brahms “makeover” and features two of their own as soloists in a finely contoured performance of the Double Concerto

Gift-bearing Ukrainians offer up warmth, joy and passion at Cadogan Hall.  

Brahms and Dvořák were colleagues, rivals and friends... and the Bamberg Symphony can lay claim to both. 

In a subscription performance supposed to yield no surprises, Igor Levit makes his own mark in Shostakovich. 

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chief Conductor brings a Technicolour experience to an evening of Bizet, Brahms, Debussy and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall swells to the music of Stravinsky, Brahms and Beethoven as the BBC Philharmonic explores different perspectives on Classical forms. 

With conductor Peter Oundijan, the Indianapolis Symphony showcases two principals in Brahms’ Double Concerto, the program rounded out with Pictures at an Exhibition.

Violinist Kerson Leong and cellist Stéphane Tétreault were phenomenal soloists in Brahms' Double Concerto. 

Daniel Barenboim offered an unusually Germanic take on César Franck, while section leaders Michael Barenboim and Kian Soltani pulled double duty as soloists in Brahms' Double Concerto.

On the surface, this Verbier Festival program looked mild (Brahms and Beethoven), but in performance, it had the effect of dropping a lit match into a crate full of fireworks.

An uplifting performance by the Swedish orchestra takes us on a journey from the Isle of Staffa to Bohemian forests via the Carpathian Mountains in the venue's Nature Unwrapped season. 

The expanded forces of the ACO take on two major nineteenth-century symphonic works by Dvorak and Brahms, prefaced by world and Australian premieres of pieces by Andrew Ford and Andrew Norman

Andris Nelsons conducts his "other" orchestra in Boston in a classic program of Brahms and Schubert. 

Kirill Petrenko paid attention to details that many times get lost.

Rihm is probably Germany’s most famous living composer, and he has a reputation for cerebral intellectualism in his music. That’s admirable, but it doesn’t make him approachable. 

A concert programme that includes both Holst and Vaughan Williams is as right as strawberries and cream at Wimbledon. 

Stutzmann displays her customary thoughtfulness and musicianship in Beethoven and Brahms, while violinist Zorman and cellist Elschenbroich deliver a remarkably satisfying Double Concerto. 

There may be little profound to say in Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony, but that didn’t stop Nézet-Séguin and the LPO telling it most beguilingly. 

 This 19th century romantic programme promised much, with familiar and rare works by Beethoven, Brahms, Dvořák and Schumann. Could the great orchestra and soloists meet our high expectations?

The San Diego Symphony presented a glittering holiday gift to audiences with its final Jacobs Masterworks program of 2015

When leaders of their sections perform a concerto with their Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, it generally leads to an evening of excellence.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales crossed the river to England to deliver an evening of the music of Brahms culminating in the giant Symphony no. 1 in C minor, Op. 68.

Brahms and Bruckner: Two diametrically opposed pieces of large-scale music from 1887, hailing from two opposing ends of the Romantic spectrum, make up this Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra programme. 

Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott demonstrate faultless command of Brahms' consumately crafted Double Concerto, which makes a telling contrast with Bruckner's wayward early Symphony no.2 in C minor in Jurowski's committed LPO performance.

Silences felt like the pillars in Lorin Maazel's reading of Sibelius' Symphony No.2 and the results were astonishing.

If every workplace could undergo a team-building exercise like Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra, the world would be a happier place. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s performance under Yan Pascal Tortelier was unbelievably energetic.

The second concert of the Philharmonia’s Brahms cycle saw Brahms’ orchestra at its richest and most full-blooded. Alongside the burnished, glowing colours of the Haydn Variations were placed the autumnal glow of the Third Symphony and the Concerto for Violin and Cello, Brahms’ final orchestral work, with sibling soloists Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff.

Nearing the end of Lincoln Center’s annual Mostly Mozart Festival – a name that rather allows for just about any programming whim – Friday night was a return to a composer who might more plausibly appear within the programs of a Mostly Beethoven or Mostly Bach festival, but whose presence here was due, one guesses, to his devotion to the concerto genre and to a certain formal elegance in his symph

One wonders what each of the composers might have thought about being programmed in the same concert. Brahms had some unpleasant things to say about Bruckner, famously that his symphonies were a swindle; and Bruckner remarked that Brahms is Brahms, but he, Bruckner, preferred his own stuff.

Who has the power, the authority to fix the moment when a major public event can start? In broadcast events, such as the Proms, where all of the concerts are broadcast on Radio 3 and many are televised, the bigger, virtual audience puts the media in the driving seat. The radio or TV producer holds sway - up to the moment when the conductor steps out into the hall.

Daishin Kashimoto, Alexander Chaushian y la Franz Schubert Filharmonia ofrecieron un programa compuesto por el Doble concierto de Brahms y la Sinfonía núm. 3 de Mendelssohn, bajo la dirección precisa y clara de Tomàs Grau.

Le directeur musical de la phalange norvégienne ajoute à la baguette sa casquette de violoncelliste dans le Double Concerto de Brahms avec Daniel Lozakovich, avant une Première Symphonie remarquable.

Initié par Lars Vogt avant son décès, le Festival Brahms de l'Orchestre de chambre de Paris bénéficie de l'investissement et du jeu exemplaires des Tetzlaff aux côtés des musiciens de la formation.

À Évian, Liya Petrova et Victor Julien-Laferrière ont fait honneur à la programmation de Philippe Bernhard, et Elim Chan a dirigé une Mer d'anthologie à la tête de l'Orchestre national de Lyon.

Les deux solistes se découvrent dans un Double Concerto de Brahms perfectible ; sous la direction dynamique d'Andrés Orozco-Estrada, la seconde partie du programme est nettement plus mémorable.

Brahms y Schumann protagonizan un programa dirigido por Juanjo Mena quien, al frente de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia ofreció una velada llena de intensidad.

In Klarheit und Ordnung ebnete Herreweghe mit dem Orchestre des Champs-Élysées die Wege, auf denen es Vieles zu entdecken gab. Solistisch faszinierte einmal mehr Isabelle Faust.

Mit einem Brahms-Programm bringen die Wiener Philharmoniker Sonnenschein in das Berliner Konzerthaus.

El reconocido solista, junto a su igualmente virtuosa pareja brillaron a la par que la orquesta chilena en una colaboración equilibrada, y una oferta musical contundente.

Les musiciens surent, de façon presque métonymique, mettre en musique la gestuelle appliquée de Leonard Slatkin

Das Schweizer Spitzenorchester gastiert mit Widmann, Brahms und Dvorak im Wiener Konzerthaus.

Orchester in Bestform, Solisten in intimem Zusammenspiel - man darf sich auf eine aufregende Konzertsaison freuen.