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Chilly neoclassical elegance and fizzing Baroque excitement from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Edinburgh. 

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider appears both as soloist and conductor on his first appearance with the Singapore Symphony since 1997. 

Haydn holds his own between Stravinsky and Shostakovich, thanks to an impassioned performance by Li-Wei Qin with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. 

Juxtaposing Chen Yi’s Duo Ye and Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite was a brilliant idea by Music Director, Jaap van Zweden.

The concert served as a formal introduction to Philippe Tondre, who became the orchestra's principal oboe during the pandemic.

The Columbus Symphony’s final performance of the season offered a very fine Jupiter along with works of Beethoven and Stravinsky.

A round-robin of Philadelphia Orchestra soloists in the original jazz-band orchestration of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue provides an ideal partnership for pianist Aaron Diehl's elaborations on this iconic work. 

Joshua Weilerstein returns to Liverpool with a rewarding programme of Rossini, Stravinsky and Beethoven.

The Bayerische Staatsorchester saved the best for last with its season finale, a generous programme of Strauss, Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Mahler.

Alondra de la Parra and Camille Thomas, together with the Hamburg Philharmonic, refute suggestions that there could be a gender gap in the world of music-making.

A superb concert from the London Philharmonic Orchestra under an inspirational Vasily Petrenko who brought vivid colours to two ballet scores straddling the Great War, and an excusite rendtion of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. 

Ravel and Prokofiev offer divergent views on the piano left-hand concerto, but fine performances ensure satisfying contrast.

A young conductor and pianist recently brought a sell-out crowd to the Tonhalle in Zurich for Stravinsky, Mozart and Beethoven.

A lush programme of Fauré, Stravinsky, and Poulenc is let down by Minkowski's erratic conducting, but is partially redeemed by two of France's fastest rising singers.

The first of two concerts given by the Britten Sinfonia at the Barbican Hall, with Barbara Hannigan as both singer and conductor.

Dances of the Baroque lay at the heart the latest concert in Royal Northern Sinfonia’s “from player to podium” series, with Håkan Hardenberger whirling the orchestra through gavottes and minuets with surefooted lightness.

Pierre Boulez builds a deceptively brilliant program featuring works by Stravinsky, Debussy, and Ravel, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra follows through on its execution.

Written for oboist Nicholas Daniel and first performed in Birmingham in 2010, there was excitement and anticipation in Perth for James MacMillan’s Oboe Concerto receiving its Scottish première.The Scottish Chamber Orchestra with soloist François Leleux gave a virtuosic performance of this thought-provoking work, conducted by Thierry Fischer.

To mark the 15th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta was invited to kick-start the Koerner Hall’s chamber music series as part of their debut tour in North American. Despite competing concerts held downtown that very same evening, those who supported the HKS were rewarded by their fine performances.

La Mahler Chamber Orchestra con Pablo Heras-Casado en la dirección ofreció en el Teatro Real un programa icónico para el que se contó también con Benjamin Alard y que incluyó El retablo de maese Pedro.

La singularidad de la música de los compositores polacos Penderecki y Panufnik contrastó profundamente con la música de Mozart en las manos de la concienzuda Maria João Pires.

L’Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain se joint à l’Orchestre National d’Auvergne le temps d’un concert placé sous le signe du néo-classicisme, entre Stravinsky, Ravel et Prokofiev.

Programme en forme de patchwork à l'Auditorium de Lyon, où Leonard Slatkin propose au public un programme mêlant Haydn, Stravinsky, Tchaïkovski et Clyne pour la création de Sound and Fury.

Die Niederländische Komponistin Mayke Nas erfindet neue Klänge, um unsere heutige Zeit mit musikalischen Mitteln zu beschreiben.

Yuja Wang et le Mahler Chamber Orchestra inaugurent leur tournée européenne à la Fondation Louis Vuitton. Un programme audacieux qui confronte l’esthétique néoclassique de Stravinsky avec le romantisme à fleur de peau de Chopin, en les plaçant dans l’héritage de Mozart et de Beethoven.