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In invigorating performances of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven in Auckland, Suzuki's interpretative approach evokes the sensibilities of historically informed performance. 

Polish composer and Mozart contemporary Józef Kozłowski’s Requiem has long been abandoned, but its Asian premiere gives it a deserved new lease of life.

This concert in the ACO's “Celebrating Mozart” season included two symphonies in G minor – by Haydn and Mozart – to bookend the evening. 

Jonathan Cohen led The Cleveland Orchestra in sparkling performances of works by Handel and Mozart, with pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout as a brilliant soloist in Haydn.

Teodor Currentzis, bad boy of early music, appeared at the Konzerthaus Berlin with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and MusicAeterna for a performance that turned it up to 11.

Christoph von Dohnányi conducted the CSO in a pair of Mozart symphonies along with a Beethoven piano concerto, the latter with Martin Helmchen in an impressive CSO debut.

Being the resident band in Stratford-upon-Avon, the Orchestra of the Swan is having a busy time of it right now, in the lead-up to Shakespeare400. 

An enthralling account of Brahms’ Fourth Symphony by Itzhak Perlman and the San Francisco Symphony.

An uninspired evening of classics, that nonetheless showed off the many sides of Shostakovich.

The Filarmónica Joven de Colombia, one of two youth orchestras performing at the “Bogotá is Mozart” festival, demonstrated great style and panache at the Teatro Cólon. 

Spot the odd one out: a symphony by Haydn, another by Mozart, a violin concerto by Mozart, and Electric Preludes by Brett Dean (2012). The bill of fare offered by the Australian Chamber Orchestra on Sunday cannot be called typical for them, since their programs evade any easy categorisation, but the gesture of mixing old and new is certainly a familiar gambit.

The Radio Kamer Filharmonie gave a riveting performance of orchestral works of the late 18th century under the direction of Masaaki Suzuki this weekend at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. The theme of the afternoon dealt with the brief but highly influential German artistic movement dubbed Sturm und Drang.

Following their acclaimed 'Bartók: Infernal Dance' series, the Philharmonia moved on Thursday to another of the twentieth century’s great composers: Richard Strauss. Strauss’s youthful tone poems, Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche were contrasted with his gloriously autumnal Four Last Songs, with Mozart’s 25th Symphony serving as a rather unexpected companion.

El concierto en Madrid de la Filarmónica de Berlín con Kirill Petrenko al frente y un programa únicamente de obras de Mozart cerró la temporada de Ibermúsica.

Belle soirée au Festival de Pâques avec l'orchestre fondé par Claire Gibault, la cheffe Rebecca Tong et le violoniste Bilal Al Nemr secondé symboliquement par Renaud Capuçon.

Nicolas Chalvin dirige un programme lyrique qui creuse les contrastes.