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On their Asian tour, the Berliner Philharmoniker reaffirms its renown in a concert of Schumann and Brahms at the Seoul Arts Center. 

Opening with those quintessential Romantics, Lord Byron and Manfred, Karina Canellakis’ LPO programme builds to a Bruckner 4 full of powerful forward momentum. 

Gautier Capuçon is the soloist in a fine reading of Robert Schumann's Cello Concerto, where sheer outward display gave way to more musical values.

Concluding Gardiner's Schumann cycle, it was a memorable concert, with a memorable Spring Symphony and a musical Manfred Overture. The Beethoven first piano concerto proved an unlikely hero.

British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason gave the impression that he had been playing the cello since he was in the womb

Darkly illuminated music at Berlin's Komische Oper. 

Stephen Hough made light of the technical challenges of Dvořák's Piano Concerto; Carl Nielsen’s “Inextinguishable” symphony was an electrifying second half.

The Budapest Festival Orchestra poured out wave upon wave of euphoric depth, melancholy and sateen-like ensemble with vigor, heart and delightful ability under the guidance of their innately musical founder and conductor.  

A memorable programme of Schumann from Bernard Haitink and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. 

Bernard Haitnik celebrates his 85th birthday with outstanding accounts of Berg and Beethoven in a moving evening at the Barbican. 

The risen Christ and a dramatic figure who resists the Christian promise of redemption make for odd conceptual bedfellows, not least of all in a Vienna Philharmonic programme which here saw Messiaen’s L’Ascension sandwiched between the Schumann and Tchaikovsky treatments of Byron’s Manfred.

Hankyeol Yoon tomó la batuta al frente de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia en un programa de obras exigentes, a la par que archiconocidas, con un resultado variable.

Mit einem Programm deutscher Romantik begeistern die Berliner Philharmoniker das Frankfurter Publikum.

L'ancien lauréat du Concours Reine Elisabeth a montré toutes ses qualités dans le Concerto de Brahms, entre deux pièces de Schumann interprétées par un BNO exemplaire sous la direction de Michael Schønwandt.

Mit Schumann, Zimmermann und Brahms läuten der Chefdirigent und sein Orchester eine fulminante Saison ein.

Gardiner setzt nahtlos an vorherige Erfolge an: Schumann und Mendelssohn mit allem, was es für gerechte Begeisterung braucht.

Un concert qui laissera comme une trace lumineuse, un souvenir de joie sans mélange.

Mit Tschaikowskis Klavierkonzert Nr. 1, umrahmt von Schumanns Manfred-Ouvertüre und  Symphonie Nr. 4, sorgte das recreation - Großes Orchester Graz für einen wunderbaren Montagabend.