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Walton's Belshazzar's Feast crowns a dynamic, daring programme from Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra. 

A Total Immersion day exploring the works of Edgar Varèse at the Barbican. 

If a single word can express disappointment without surprise, it would capture my feeling upon surveying the seats before this concert of 20th-century music at the Usher Hall. My heart went out to the musicians. However, upon seeing Ilan Volkov’s happy and positive demeanour and hearing the first notes, all such negativity dissolved, never to return.

The centenary of the première of The Rite of Spring – now that is something to celebrate. The Philharmonia, led by chief conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, did it in style, with Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune by Claude Debussy (who of course famously performed the Rite with Stravinsky on the piano), Amériques by Edgard Varèse (who was present at the première, and very much influenced by it), and a vi

When we think of America, Dvořák and Milhaud are not among the first set of composers to come to mind, but it turns out they deserve to be among the second.

Bravo to Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony for blowing the dust off of some of the boldest innovators America has produced. As part of a mini-festival at Carnegie Hall of 20th- and 21st-century composers who stretched musical and formal boundaries (to put it mildly), the program on Tuesday night was packed with rarely-played wonders.

On October 24th the grand-dame of Russian contemporary music, Sofia Gubaidulina, celebrates her 80th birthday. In order to commemorate this event, several concerts with her music were scheduled in Amsterdam for her presence – not least of all, the premiere of her new Concerto for Orchestra.

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.

L’Ensemble intercontemporain et les étudiants du CNSMDP se sont rencontrés pour un concert monographique en deux parties aussi bien construit qu’interprété.

Modernité, brillance, rapport à l'histoire différent... le LA Phil a conquis le public parisien par son approche de la musique si rafraîchissante.

Vision pénétrante, lucide d'Alan Gilbert dirigeant l'Orchestre de Paris et intelligence sonore rare chez Marc-André Hamelin. Au programme : la Symphonie n°4 de Schumann, le Concerto pour la main gauche de Ravel, et Amériques de Varèse.