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The evening starts with life-affirming Beethoven – and then, the Budapest Festival Orchestra demonstrate just how good native Hungarians can be in Bartók’s chiller. 

Tradition reborn with thrilling clarity: Jakub Hrůša’s Bambergers light up Seoul: Wagner’s shimmering overture, Bomsori Kim’s impassioned Bruch, and a lucid yet explosive Beethoven Seventh. 

Continuing with their ‘Made in Manchester’ series of Mozart concertos in Stoller Hall, Manchester Camerata turn to the horn concertos with soloist Martin Owen. 

Awe-inspiring performances of much loved classics in Sydney, yet the musical eyebrows have reasons to go (and stay) up. 

Igor Levit's Carnegie Hall programme evolves into a journey through interconnected musical worlds, revealing unexpected parallels and contrasts. 

What do Tchaikovsky, de Falla and Beethoven have in common? Nothing, but Vasily Petrenko and the Singapore Symphony thrill. 

The dynamic Kahchun Wong conducts the Hallé in Beethoven's Seventh, and Colin Currie stars in James MacMillan's concerto. 

Beethoven and Sir Karl Jenkins receive top-notch performances from Nil Venditti and the BBC NOW. 

Esther Yoo gives the world premiere of the Violin Concerto composed for her by Raymond Yiu. 

After recording all five of Beethoven's piano concertos together, Stutzmann and Haochen Zhang joined together for a rousing interpretation of the Emperor, followed by a lively Seventh Symphony. 

Overture, concerto, symphony: nothing to scare the horses here, nor in works by three major composers, Wagner, Mozart and Beethoven. Nothing world-shaking either in solid but often one-dimensional performances.

At the head of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Pekka Kuusisto greets the holidays in Berlin with a Haydn-centred concert featuring works by Anna Clyne, Caroline Shaw and Beethoven. 

With an assist from Gidon Kremer, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra shines in an overheated, challenging program.

Kirill Gerstein, together with Sir Antonio Pappano and the LSO, delivers a coruscating performance of what is rapidly becoming a 21st-century classic, framed by Bartók and Beethoven.

Yip Wing-sie and the HK Sinfonietta show admirable qualities in their Beethoven cycle. François-Frédéric Guy plays a splendid Third Piano Concerto but Anne Queffélec is disconnected from the orchestra in the Fourth.

Argerich shows her full artistry, while Europe's young musicians show impressive coordination and dynamics, if short of emotion in Beethoven 7.

At the Minnesota Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis contrasts works of Beethoven with Berg’s Violin Concerto and a piece the draws on traditional Chinese folk dance. 

Jörg Widmann helms an exhilarating CBSO concert in Birmingham, making Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony sound brand new. 

In a week when the New York Phil announced Gustavo Dudamel as its next Music Director, a former candidate rekindles “what if?” thoughts. 

Denis Kozhukhin is a late stand in for Grieg's Piano Concerto, while Jonathan Heyward shapes Beethoven's Seventh with ambition and energy.

All vestiges of age-related considerations evaporate as Herbert Blomstedt conducts Schubert and Beethoven in Berlin's Philharmonie.

Elena Stikhina and Vitalij Kowaljow provided an extra touch of class in Shostakovich’s sombre but moving Fourteenth Symphony, with Noseda and the LSO running riot in Beethoven’s Seventh.

Amid stressful cancelations and last-minute program shifts, Xian Zhang offered thrilling interpretations of classic Beethoven and Rossini works in her Philadelphia Orchestra debut.

Julia Adolphe's new violin concerto, Woven Loom, Silver Spindle built impact and structure out of the instability between the brightly spinning realm of the violin and the darker, all-encompassing framework of the orchestra. 

At age 94, Herbert Blomstedt led a superb all-Beethoven concert with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Music Center, with Garrick Ohlsson an exemplary soloist in the Fourth Piano Concerto.

The young Norwegian conductor Tabita Berglund has been making waves on the international circuit and is already exhibiting much promise. Here she directs the Hallé in an eclectic mix of Wagner, Golijov and Beethoven.

An all-day Beethoven experience European style with both highs and lows: much diversity revealed and exploited but of variable quality.

Carlos Simon’s Fate Now Conquers is sandwiched by two Beethoven symphonies in this final programme in Andris Nelsons' “Spirit of Beethoven” theme.

Young violinist Chloe Chua distinguishes in Mozart, almost stealing the show from Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s Beethoven

In a long-awaited return to City Hall, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta prove their mettle in works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Daniel Lo Ting-cheung

John Storgårds and the London Philharmonic Orchestra couple Julian Anderson’s evocative Van Gogh Blue with an exhilarating Beethoven’s Seventh, while Simone Lamsma is dynamic and expansive in Nielsen.

David Hill took the helm as the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra opened its account with arrangements of Bach and Mahler, an Ives masterpiece and an ebullient Beethoven 7.

Nicholas Collon leads Auorora Orchestra through an effervescent account of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. 

Not only was this the first time that Klaus Mäkelä had conducted the Orchestre de Paris since his appointment as Music Director Designate, it was the first time audiences returned to the Philharmonie. 

The Australian String Quartet joins the West Australian Symphony Orchestra under Ludovic Morlot for an enjoyable and  timely round of Beethoven interleaved with John Adams' homage to the 250-year old composer. 

Part three of their anniversary symphony cycle sees their Principal Conductor lead the SCO with energy and drama.

Music is the ultimate universal language, here reflected in the latest Chineke! programme offering playing of richness and vitality.

Nine symphonies, five orchestras, two days: an immersive weekend as part of the Barbican's Beethoven 250 coverage featuring some of the UK's finest orchestras. 

An all-Beethoven tribute in Dublin worthy of any of the great music capitals of Europe. 

Oppressed by the prospect of wall-to-wall LvB throughout 2020? Here was a joyous reminder of why we are celebrating.

The Czech Phil's woodwind are in superb form for a particularly optimistic concert featuring Berio's mercurial Rendering to give us a double dose of Schubert's unfinished symphonic work.

The young Finnish conductor, stepping in on short notice, led an incandescent performance of Beethoven’s Symphony no. 7. Augustin Hadelich was an excellent soloist in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no. 2.

Thomas Adès and the Britten Sinfonia now enter the final phase of their three year Beethoven and Barry cycle with rewarding interpretations of Beethoven's Seventh and Eighth, separated by a new Viola Concerto from Barry.

Widmann, Mendelssohn and Beethoven draw a full house to the Ulster Hall. Rafael Payare leads the Ulster Orchestra confidently, but Veronika Eberle steals the show.

Tinney delivers an intelligent, sensitive account of Beethoven's Piano concerto no. 5 while German conductor Alber stresses speed over subltety in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the Southbank Chamber orchestra in a programme dedicated to the interpretation of classical dance forms.

Beethoven, Kurth and Grieg under the baton of Michael Stern.

The Berliners' second concert comprised the core repertoire for which they are famous, Beethoven and Strauss. Under the dynamic baton of their incoming Principal, Kirill Petrenko, these warhorses were made fresh again.

Esa-Pekka Salonen brings the Baltic Sea Festival to an end in an eclectic, risk-taking programme of music by Biber, Beethoven and himself.