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The Singapore Symphony's annual presidential concert is distinguished by two prodigious piano talents, Toby Tan and Adrian Tang. 

A night to remember for Montreal orchestral music devotees as Daniil Trifonov joins the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and conductor Rafael Payare.

The St Petersburg Philharmonic unleash all the unstoppable forces of Russian excess in a programme of Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev at Sage Gateshead.

Juho Pohjonen tackles the Prokofiev First Piano Concerto with real aplomb, but big thrills also come from a "French trio" of compositions by Debussy, Ravel and Florent Schmitt.

Another evocative salute to Slava in Washington DC/

The RSNO continues its cycle of Prokofiev’s Piano Concertos to celebrate its 125th season, coupled with some Russian fairy-tale magic and a rare outing for Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony.

Valery Gergiev led an athletic pilgrimage through composer-pianist Sergei Prokofiev’s five Piano Concerti, in numerical order, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

What on paper might have looked like a circus act – wheeling out three pianists to plough through Prokofiev’s five piano concertos – turned out to be a fascinating opportunity to compare and contrast.

The Hallé was on top form in Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Sibelius with inspiring conductor Karl-Heinz Steffens, dazzling pianist Denis Kozhukhin and superb orchestral soloists.

Exuberant enthusiasm from the CBSO Youth Orchestra in a mighty programme of Lutosławski, Prokofiev and Mahler. 

Edward Gardner directs the National Youth Orchestra’s annual prom performance in an exhilarating Russian and Polish programme.

It would be hard to count out every single thing that was Russian about this concert. The sounds of 19th-century Russia came to Colston Hall, as part of a big tour of the UK, with three giant Russian works and three encores, by all-Russian performers.The Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio is a big orchestra with around 100 instrumentalists.

When you go to see a student orchestra play a concert, your expectations are generally lower than with professional orchestras. And so, when the Symfonieorkest of the Amsterdam Conservatory and soloists from the same Conservatory came to Leiden with an exciting program of Ravel, Prokofiev, Dvořák and Janáček, I thought it’d be a fun night, but not necessarily impressive.

Dans un programme 100% russe, le directeur musical de l'Orchestre de Paris et sa formation produisent un formidable jeu en technicolor, mais dont les teintes paraissent parfois excessivement rehaussées.

Deuxième volet du passage des Berliner Philharmoniker et Kirill Petrenko à la Philharmonie de Paris, avec notamment un grandiose poème symphonique de Josef Suk. 

Daniil Trifonov komplettiert mit Prokofjews Erstem Klavierkonzert ein herausragendes Programm, dirigiert von Kirill Petrenko.

Voilà quelques années que Valery Gergiev a marqué cette musique au fer, et le jour viendra bientôt où maestro voudra faire entendre les cinq concertos au cours d’une même soirée. Pour l’heure, il s’en tient aux trois premiers...