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John Storgårds conducts the NSO through Sibelius, Polevá, and Shostakovich at the National Concert Hall, while pianist Yukine Kuroki delivers Rachmaninov with luminous precision.

For the end of the season, Berlin's Konzerthaus unleashes the fury of the elements with a concert featuring Bernd Richard Deutsch's Organ Concerto Okeanos, together with works by Sibelius and Shostakovich. 

In its Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut, Bell's commission for an all-star lineup of composers boasts some virtuosic violin playing and a shared aesthetic, but not a throughline.

A memorable evening with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, who are joined by pianist Alexandre Tharaud for Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major. 

Hans Keller's mischievous essay on “Phoney Professions” lists  both viola players (“it’s just a big violin”) and conductors among its targets. This performance refuted that, as surely as it delighted everyone else.

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra's superb playing is constrained by the limits of streaming. 

Jennifer Swartz plays Rautavaara's Harp Concerto with panache, making any difficulties seem easier to manage than they really were.

Razor sharp precision from Nelsons and the BSO in Shostakovich and Stravinsky, with intensely expressive playing from Michael Zaretsky and Randall Hodgkinson in Eda Rapoport's Poem.

What links the keys of C major and F minor, and the years 1800 and 1925? The first symphonies of Beethoven and Shostakovich respectively.

Gianandrea Noseda's Shostakovich symphony cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra took us right back to the composer's student days, with the punchy First. 

Cristian Măcelaru joins forces with Nikolaj Znaider in a performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Vanska celebrates Finland's musical heritage with the San Francisco Symphony

Russian repertoire is second nature to Mariss Jansons and this programme at the Barbican with his Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra was easily the finest music-making I’d heard all year.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra scored a major win when they engaged Daniil Trifonov to visit for three orchestral concerts and a solo recital. 

Not having appeared with the CSO since 1999, Gennady Rozhdestvensky made a much anticipated return with the first and last symphonies of Shostakovich.

Seamless playing and magical moments from the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya in a youthful programme meant that a slight lack of flair and grit felt even more amiss.

In a packed Usher Hall, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra still and thrill by turns with transcendental, colourful Ravel and innovative, cinematic young Shostakovich.

Ilyich Rivas conducts his first official performance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of Dvořák, Tchaikovsky and Mahler, concluding with a rare performance of Shostakovich's Symphony no. 1.

Having resoundingly declared not two weeks ago that I had never seen the CBSO perform so well, I am forced to admit that the orchestra have once again outdone themselves.

Last night’s concert by the Hallé, this season’s first guest orchestra to visit Sage Gateshead, was all about youth: a young conductor, a young soloist, a young composer, and music written for a young audience. There were even a few young faces in the large audience.

On Tuesday night, St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Orchestra and their ubiquitous music director Valery Gergiev closed a series of concerts at Carnegie Hall. Part of the hall’s fall “Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg” festival, the program included works by Prokofiev and Shostakovich as well as Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

La Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias visitó el Palacio de la Ópera en La Coruña con un exigente programa para el que contaron con el pianista Stephen Hough.

La dirección de Andrés Salado al frente de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia dejó algunos momentos brillantes dentro de una concepción no del todo exitosa de las obras en programa.

Le violoniste américain, le chef italien et l'orchestre français ont brillé dans un programme original et bien conçu, devant un public comblé.

Dans la Salle Pierre-Boulez de la Philharmonie de Paris, Simon Rattle et les Berliner Philharmoniker défolklorisent deux symphonies de Chostakovitch et les propulsent dans un XXe siècle plus radical, plus novateur qu'on le pense si souvent.

Fazil Say « par l’auteur », (K)ein Sommernachtstraum d’Alfred Schnittke, Messiaen et Chostakovitch. Un programme exemplaire, et une salle qui aurait mérité d’être pleine !

Mit einem österreichisch-ungarischen und russischen Programm überzeugt das RSO Wien einmal wieder im Wiener Konzerthaus.