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Works by Rolf Liebermann, Mozart and Mahler recently brought down the house at Zurich’s Tonhalle Maag, in no small part because of Martin Fröst’s illuminating performance.

Excellent chamber orchestras are a true pleasure to behold. The Wiener Virtuosen were in their element in an evening of Mozart, Mahler and Dvořák. 

Robert Trevino conducts the RLPO in a stormy Mahler 5th after a deeply personal account Mozart's Clarinet Concerto by Julian Bliss

A mixed evening, where Mozart's concerto lacked melancholy and Debussy's Faune inspired neither curiosity nor otherworldliness.

Recreating the programme from Leonard Bernstein's first Prom, Thomas Dausgaard forged his own route through Mahler's Fifth. 

The London Philharmonic Orchestra under Andrés Orozco-Estrada explore Romanticism in Weber and Rachmaninov, with Juian Bliss providing a classical contrast in Mozart's clarinet concerto.

Although Ács Ákos gave an excellent performance of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, Iván Fischer's innovative Requiem didn't quite work.

Jörg Widmann wore two hats in the last concert of the Zurich Tonhalle’s season, both playing solo clarinet and conducting a performance of one of his own thought-provoking works.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducted his hometown Orchestre Métropolitain in a concert Hollywood couldn’t have scripted better nor the Cirque du Soleil made more fantastic. 

In its seventh visit to Prague Spring, the orchestra shows affection for the old but more versatility with new music

It's likely that Mozart never actually heard his Clarinet Concerto performed. That fate, happily, has not been shared by Michael Gordon, who has heard Peter Whelan perform his new bassoon concerto Observations on Air four times this week. 

Up and Coming American James Feddeck makes an impressive CBSO debut in a programme of familiar works.  

Gerhaher's glorious rendition of Mozart arias and the crisp sound of the FBO made for a delightful evening. 

A bright evening of the "Mozart Effect" series somewhat dulled by a bizarrely structured programme.

Substituting for Riccardo Muti, Gennady Rozhdestvensky lead the CSO in a program of diverse works for string orchestra along with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, featuring the CSO's principal clarinetist.

Happy Birthday, Mozart! An incisive Gran Partita from London Winds, a spirited Sesto from Christine Rice, and a memorable and arresting Concerto from Collins and the City of London Sinfonia.

In this last concert in the Leipzig Gewandhaus and Riccardo Chailly’s brief residency at the Barbican, all concerned were on top form. 

Kiril Karabits brings out the climaxes, in a solid performance of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony in Basingstoke, couple with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.

Michael Collins' golden tone delights in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in a concert featuring the world première of Gwilym Simcock's latest composition, On a Piece of Tapestry.

The Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne opens the Hong Kong Arts Festival with contrasting works, Mozart's reflective Clarinet Concerto and Strauss' monumental Alpine Symphony. 

Even if the joke is good, it’s all in the telling, as they say. Mozart’s Ein musikalischer Spaß (“A Musical Joke”) is good, but it probably meant more to its contemporaries than it does to us today. It is Mozart’s satire of the incompetent composers, musicians and copyists of his time. It’s an inside joke, for all practical purposes.

Chief conductor Juanjo Mena conducted a programme of energetic Beethoven and Schubert alongside an original reading of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.Hearing little-played Beethoven is a rare treat in the concert hall, and Mena made a strong case for the great man’s Ritterballett (“Knight Ballet”) music.

Cornelius Meister has long been a champion of young Czech composer Miroslav Srnka, not only as chief conductor of the RSO Wien but also in Heidelberg, where he was Generalmusikdirektor from 2005 until earlier this year.

Osmo Vänskä strode onto the stage to great applause, paused for the slightest of moments and then lunged at the orchestra with his baton. The gesture was sudden and lacked clarity, and as a result, the first note of the Prom wasn’t together in the strings.

On the two hundred and fifty-sixth birthday of Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, a voice over the loudspeaker announced the arrival of the more succinctly-named Emmitt Smith to the stage of Dallas’s Meyerson Symphony Center. Mr.

Avec l'Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Andreas Ottensamer propose un Mozart subtil et doux au Festival de Pâques. À la baguette, Elena Schwarz souligne les longues phrases de la Symphonie n° 2 de Beethoven.

Sous la direction de Sakari Oramo, l'Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Stockholm propose une Symphonie n° 1 de Mahler bien morne. Compensée heureusement par la clarinette stratosphérique de Martin Fröst dans Mozart.

La salle Poirel se délecte du Concerto pour clarinette de Mozart interprété par Raphaël Sévère. Des œuvres symphoniques de Smetana et Borodine bénéficient de la direction fougueuse d’Alpesh Chauhan.

Der polnische Dirigent begeistert bei seinem Gastkonzert mit den Münchner Philharmonikern mit einem Programm mit Werken von Penerecki, Mozart und Strawinsky.

Der österreichische Klarinettist Wenzel Fuchs besticht bei Mozarts Klarinettenkonzert mit seinem samtweichen Ton.

Pour les clarinettistes, le concerto de Mozart constitue sans hésitation le classique des classiques. D’où la difficulté pour ses interprètes d'y glisser un vent de fraîcheur. Difficulté dont Martin Fröst fait fi : car il est de ces musiciens qui ne se sentent à l’aise que dans un univers sonore minutieusement construit et extrêmement personnel.

Gemeinsam mit Klarinettist Andreas Ottensamer schaffte das Württembergische Kammerorchester eine gelungene Verbindung aus „filmmusikartiger“ und großer Klassik, von Rota bis Mozart.

Après leurs nombreux passages à Bruges, il n’est plus nécessaire de convaincre les habitués du Concertgebouw Brugge que le Budapest Festival Orchestra et son chef titulaire se sont ces dix dernières années frayé un chemin vers l’excellence internationale. En témoigne encore une fois cette interprétation du Requiem de Mozart.

Mit Kompositionen aus dem Jahr 1791 erfasste Marc Minkowski mit den Musciens du Louvre und dem Cor Cambra Palau das Wesen von Mozarts musikalischem Testament.

La venue à la Philharmonie de Paris pour trois concerts de l’Orchestre du Gawandhaus de Leipzig et de son directeur musical, Riccardo Chailly, était un événement très attendu. Comme les deux précédents, ce dernier concert était consacré à Richard Strauss et Mozart. Cette troisième soirée fut tout à fait exceptionnelle.

Le Hong Kong Sinfonietta aura été plus Mendelssohnien que Mozartien, Paul Meyer aura brillé un peu solitaire, tel un diamant peu serti... 

L'Orchestre National de France déçoit dans Mozart et ne convainc pas complètement dans Bruckner, malgré la direction précise et infaillible de Bernard Haitink.