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A tribute to John Coltrane highlights an adventurous outing by The Cleveland Orchestra led by cosmopolitan conductor Stéphane Denève.

French conductor Stéphane Denève leads the Toronto Symphony in an invigorating French-American programme, featuring Canadian star violinist, James Ehnes. 

Leonard Slatkin brings a New World burnish and expertise to a high-energy outing with the Prague Symphony Orchestra.

John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London give a masterclass in musical perfection in works by Walton, Ravel, Gershwin and Dutilleux.

Korngold's concerto is at the heart of The Hallé's concert of American urban music which also features Gershwin, Higdon and Bernstein.

Conductor Ludovic Morlot deserves high praise for managing this flow of delightful music and keeping it in sync with the screenplay.

Each of the works are particularly radiant in themselves, but made even more so as they were presented here.

Marking a trio of anniversaries, Debussy, Bernstein and their 25th milestone, the Ulster Youth Orchestra are welcomed home from their celebratory European tour with the warmest Irish greetings.

Revelling in the luscious orchestrations and sumptuous melodies, it was a rare treat to bask in such obvious delight from both conductor and orchestra.

Why don’t brass ensembles have a regular presence in the classical concert scene, in comparison to string ensembles or at least woodwind ensembles? 

Fanfares and percussion: the NYOS play an all American programme of Gershwin, Copland and welcome back NYOS alumnus Colin Currie to play Andrew Norman’s Switch.

While passion, supreme technical mastery, and inspiration all come to mind watching a celebrity like Ma perform, camaraderie, perhaps, is the best word for this concert.

In the year of the composer's 70th birthday, Adams’ Doctor Atomic Symphony had everyone sitting up straighter. 

From the American national anthem to An American in Paris and back to New York City for West Side Story with Joshua Bell, Stravinksy’s Firebird stuck out as the most remarkable piece on the program.

Ravel and Bartók shared the program with Gershwin, Brubeck, Thelonious Monk and others in this imaginative program.

Broadway is turning movies into musicals at the drop of a top hat, but none can touch this irresistible reworking of the 1951 Gene Kelly extravaganza, An American in Paris. They should just hand the Tonys to Christopher Wheeldon, Bob Crowley, and Robert Fairchild now.

Kees Bakels and the Orchestra of Opera North perform Gershwin, Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky at Leeds Town Hall.

Peter Oundjian and the RSNO perform an imaginative programme airing the varied moods and influences which make up modern America.

Vastly Petrenko conducts John Adams' Saxophone Concerto with Timothy McAllister, along with Gershwin and Strauss in Liverpool. 

The Philhamonia Zürich’s concert of great American orchestral and song music meant a magical mix of the familiar and iconic. 

Taking a “transatlantic bridge” as their theme for the evening, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center featured music by Ravel, Gershwin, Korngold and Antheil. 

Probably the most impressive aspect of Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 2013-14 season has been its consistent commitment to musical diversity. Here, Barber and Gershwin shared the bill with William Schuman and Mason Bates. 

Attending a concert at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples is always an amazing experience. But last Sunday’s concert was also confirmation of the excellence of two relatively young artists, conductor Juraj Valčuha and pianist Roberto Cominiani.

This past weekend The Cleveland Orchestra, with guest conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, played works by John Adams, Aaron Copland and George Gershwin, but the major work on the program was Béla Fleck’s Banjo Concerto, with the composer as soloist. This review is based on the performance of Saturday, 8 December.

On 3 September 1912, in a Proms concert which also featured a comedy overture by Granville Bantock and excerpts from Délibes’ ballet Coppélia, Henry Wood and his Queen’s Hall Orchestra gave the world première of Arnold Schoenberg’s Five Orchestral Pieces, a landmark work in atonal expressionism which drew hisses from the hall audience.

"Freedom fries": no two words could better summarize the crassness that characterized the early years of the American 21st century.In the wake of disagreement over the Iraq War, American xenophobes sought to eradicate from these shores any vestige of the Tricolour.

Pour leur première au nouveau festival de la Philharmonie, l'orchestre maison et le chef finlandais ont échoué à retranscrire toute la diversité expressive d'un programme pourtant séduisant sur le papier.

À la Halle au Blé d'Altkirch, la pianiste Célia Oneto Bensaid commence une prometteuse tournée alsacienne, avec de belles transcriptions originales servies par un jeu d'une grande netteté.

Dernière étape de leur tournée européenne, le Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra et son directeur musical Louis Langrée se produisaient à la Seine musicale. La bannière étoilée ne flottait pas sur l’île Seguin, mais c’était tout comme : le programme mettait exclusivement à l’honneur les musiques du « Nouveau Monde ».

Le Festival de Colmar s'est achevé le 14 juillet par un concert où deux motifs, « violon », « Amérique », venaient conclure de manière pertinente 10 journées consacrées à la mémoire de Jascha Heifetz.

Triste concert symphonique aux Chorégies où Bernstein et Gershwin ont perdu le rythme. 

Un programme « Redécouverte de l’Amérique » exécuté avec brio par l’Orchestre National de Bordeaux et dirigé par la talentueuse Karen Kamensek.