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String principals Jehye Lee and Tobias Reifland impress in Mozart's sunny Sinfonia Concertante.

Robert Lakatos proved to be an ideal soloist in Korngold's Violin Concerto and Uroš Lajovic conducted a poised, atmospheric Italian Symphony in Belgrade.

For the composer's birthday, a mismatch of performers and repertoire.

Symphonies by Barber and Mendelssohn offered two distinct portrayals of Italy in Osmo Vänskä’s Cleveland Orchestra program.

As part of their ‘summer’ season, Vasily Petrenko conducted the RLPO in Mendelssohn’s sunny “Italian” Symphony. Boris Giltburg uses Beethoven’s Emperor as a showcase for his flawless talents.

Less is more in a brilliant performance by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and star soloist Jan Lisiecki at Prague Spring.

A charming, thoughtful account of Beethoven's First Piano Concerto by Norwegian pianist Christian Ihle Hadland, while the NSO under the baton of Stutzmann delivered wonderful Haydn and Mendelssohn Symphonies. 

Italian sunshine and Austrian spring days evoked in a programmes containing two symphonies at the Royal Festival Hall. 

Music by Mendelssohn framed Schumann’s misunderstood Violin Concerto in this sensitive concert led by Ludovic Morlot and featuring guest violinist Gidon Kremer.

Joshua Bell brings star quality to the visit of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, with a stunning performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto the stand-out item on their first Sydney programme.

Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra lit up Zurich’s historic Tonhalle with a stellar double-bill of Mendelssohn and Mahler.

A disappointing pairing of Berlioz and Mendelssohn from a conductorless Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. 

This evening’s performance marked the next stop on the Aurora Orchestra’s Grand Tour, continuing a five-year journey through the complete cycle of Mozart’s piano concertos. 

Le Cercle d'Harmonie with their founder Jérémie Rhorer fail to convince in symphonies by Mozart and Mendelssohn, whereas the Italian soprano Rosa Feola triumphs in two concert arias.

Mendelsohn's Italian Symphony is a perenial and popular favourite, but perhaps one with which we are over-familiar. Could young Alpesh Chauhan do something fresh with it?

Andrew Manze conducts the Hallé in Mendelssohn's Italian, Strauss' Horn Concerto with Laurence Rogers, and Brahms.

Yuri Temirkanov chills Felix Mendelssohn and Anton Bruckner symphonic fire with Russian sensibility at the MITO Settembre Musica festival inaugural concert

In a program inspired by Italy, Roberto Abbado and Sergej Krylov join the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in powerhouse performances that featured some dazzling solo violin playing. 

A correct rendition of an improvised program, featuring symphonies by Beethoven and Mendelssohn, following the sudden absence of the cellist Alban Gerhardt.

An excellent Dvořák Cello Concerto with István Várdai and some stirring Mendelssohn from the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra

Mendelssohn developed quite a soft spot for Birmingham, even producing a sketched portrait of the city. At the centre of this portrait stands Joseph Hansom's splendid neoclassical Town Hall where Mendelssohn conducted several of his own works, most famously the première of his great oratorio, Elijah.

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.

The Oxford International Piano Festival comprises a two-week long series of workshops and concerts, hosted by Oxford Philomusica and featuring pianists of international esteem, among them Andreas Haefliger and Sergei Babayan. It was Menahem Pressler, now in his 88th year, who gave the closing piano masterclasses and performed in the closing concert at the Sheldonian Theatre.

L'Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon et son directeur musical Daniele Rustioni sortent de la fosse pour un concert symphonique où l'interprétation des symphonies de Mahler et Mendelssohn ne convainc qu'à moitié. 

La phalange mulhousienne a donné une création française de Kareem Roustom avant une brillante Symphonie espagnole par Alexandra Soumm. La Symphonie « italienne » de Mendelssohn a moins convaincu.

Auf dieser historischen Reise erfreut Martin Helmchen mit lyrischem und triumphalem Wasserballett, das Dresdner Festspielorchester unter Ivor Bolton mit genüsslichem dolce vita.

Kent Nagano leitet einen virtuosen Saisonausklang des Deutschen Symphonie-Orchesters.

Sous la direction d'Andris Nelsons, le Gewandhausorchester de Leipzig se produisait à la Philharmonie de Paris dans un répertoire entièrement symphonique. Une démonstration orchestrale.

La interpretación de Dueñas conjugó un derroche de técnica violinística con el máximo respeto a la esencia musical y a la belleza de las líneas casi cantables de una obra en la que hay mucho más que deslumbrantes pirotecnias.

El reconocido solista, junto a su igualmente virtuosa pareja brillaron a la par que la orquesta chilena en una colaboración equilibrada, y una oferta musical contundente.

Le 5 avril marque les débuts de Jérémie Rhorer avec l’Orchestre de Paris. Entre l'Ouverture de « Polyeucte » de Dukas, le Concerto de Schumann joué par Francesco Piemontesi et la quatrième symphonie de Mendelssohn, le chef a l'occasion de faire ses preuves. Un programme haut en couleurs qui se révèle parfaitement maîtrisé !

Une belle idée sous-tend cette « Nuit Chopin », en compagnie des deux lauréats du dernier Concours de Varsovie, celle d’en rejouer la Finale. Voilà le public confronté aux mêmes œuvres, aux mêmes musiciens : Charles Richard-Hamelin et Seong-Jin Cho, accompagnés par Aziz Shokhakimov à la tête du Sinfonia Varsovia.

Temperamentvolle Einstiege und butterweiche Mittelsätze: Yannik Nézet-Séguin präsentiere in Dortmund Mendelssohn-Symphonien. 

Auffällig differenziert ließ das Orchester Atmosphäre, Natur, Rauheit, Schönheit und Volktümlichkeit dabei erscheinen.

Jeudi 14 mai, le Philharmonia Orchestra offrait un programme Schumann/Mendelssohn sous la baguette de Jérémie Rhorer, avec Francesco Piemontesi au piano. Une soirée réussie, en particulier grâce à un orchestre au meilleur de sa forme.

Emmanuel Krivine dirige l'Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon dans la Pastorale de Beethoven, Mélusine et l’Italienne de Mendelssohn.