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Seong-Jin Cho gives an impressive performance of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, and Santtu-Matias Rouvali crafts a mesmerising reading of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony, free of sentimentality and bombast.

Opening their season with an all-Russian programme, Royal Northern Sinfonia ventured beyond the standard chamber orchestra repertoire, with patchy results.

Tugan Sokhiev's debut with the New York Philharmonic was not an unqualified success. 

Intended to signify the contribution of Russian music to the Western canon, the Royal Choral Society gave admirable performances of two major choral works, rarely heard in Winchester Cathedral.

Elisabeth Leonskaja revient à la Philharmonie pour le Concerto n° 4 de Beethoven avec l'Orchestre du Capitole. Sous la direction de Tugan Sokhiev, les musiciens toulousains s'aventurent en terres russes avec Borodine et Moussorgski.

Orientalische Sujets spielen in der Musikgeschichte schon seit dem Barock eine Rolle. Die Münchner Symphoniker präsentierten die Orientbegeisterung der Komponisten in einem spannenden Programm im Münchner Brunnenhof.