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Avec un fameux Viennois invité à la direction et au violon solo, l'Orchestre national de Lyon a proposé à son public un concert du Nouvel An festif, très réussi.

Le festival « Les Coups de Cœur à Chantilly » du pianiste Iddo Bar-Shaï célèbre les 80 ans de la célèbre pianiste, avec Evgeny Kissin et Maxim Vengerov en guest stars.

A la Fondation Louis Vuitton, le musicien a su rendre justice à son talent en célébrant l'alpha et l'oméga de son instrument : Bach et Paganini.

Martha Argerich, Emmanuel Krivine et l'Orchestre national s'en donnent à coeur joie dans le Concerto en sol de Ravel avant que le chef s'embarque avec Sindbad le marin pour les mille et une nuits de Shéhérazade.

Marie Jacquot makes her BBC Proms debut with great performances of Bizet, Saint-Saëns and Augusta Holmès, while Inmo Yang dazzles in Sarasate. 

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

The Russian-Israeli pianist serves up a richly varied mezze of 38 Chopin and Rachmaninov preludes at Wigmore Hall. 

Sakari Oramo and the BBCSO were at the top of their game, bringing a bracing breath of Scandi fresh air and clear light, on a dark December eveneing. 

Not much of a flicker in the needle of the barometer for orchestra and conductor in Brahms, but Johan Dalene charms the ear in a serene outing of Sibelius’ Violin Concerto.

Valeriy Sokolov explores the loneliness of the long-distance runner in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, while the formidable artistic partnership of Nicholas Collon and Aurora Orchestra come up trumps in Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony.

The joy of Maxim Vengerov and Simon Trpčeski playing together was as palpable in Franck's sonata as it was in Prokofiev's.

Maxim Vengerov and Simon Trpčeski put their consummate musicianship on show and give us Prokofiev and Franck to remember.

The Bamberg Symphony returns to its roots with Jakub Hrůša conducting high-energy gems from the Czech repertoire.

A risk-free, splendid musical feast for a summer festival, magnificently performed in Verbier's church.

Piazzolla rubs shoulders with Lanner and Kreisler at the Martha Argerich Music Festival in Hamburg's Laeiszhalle. 

Bach, Beethoven and a virtuoso showstopper from Bomsori Kim in recital in Singapore's Victoria Hall. 

In an all-Beethoven celebration, the London Mozart Players offer a lively rendition of the Coriolan Overture and young Greek-born violinist, Jonian-Ilias Kadesha, performs the Beethoven Violin Concerto with earnest enthusiasm.

From Mozart and faux Pugnani to a Miklós Rózsa rarity, this was a brilliant showcase for the British-Polish violinist's artistry. 

Die Münchner Symphoniker verbinden bei ihrer Kammermusikreihe „Sommermusik” leichte und ernste Musik und das klappt überraschend gut.

Had the piece been much longer, pianist, instrument, audience and hall would surely have been consumed by some Pentecostal fire. Which is more or less what the composer had in mind.

Christoph Altstaedt conducts the Ulster Orchestra in a charming programme of quintessentially Viennese music for New Year.

Maxim Vengerov and Polina Osetinskaya’s marathon of Brahms sonatas showed off the composer at his most lyrical and dramatic. 

InMo Yang spielte mit expressivem Rubato, agil, mit ausgezeichneter Intonation und stupender Technik, durch die Springbogen- und Flageolett-Passagen, die doppelgriffigen Läufe, das Pizzicato mit der linken Hand.

A recital from one of the world's most celebrated violinists took the audience on a tour of periods in classical music. 

World-class artists collaborate to celebrate Suntory Hall's 30th anniversary. 

Flórez's recital showed exactly why singers should steer clear of technological assistance. 

Two titans of classical music present a program of violin sonatas.

Eine Hommage an den einflussreichsten Geiger des 20. Jahrhunderts gab Charlie Siem in München mit einem vielseitigen und abwechslungsreichen Miniaturen-Programm.

Janine Jansen's International Chamber Music Festival offered a special treat this year: scratchcard concert, where a scratchcard determined which concerts one got to see.

The Winspear Opera House in Dallas hosted violinist Itzhak Perlman for the penultimate performance on this season’s recital series, performing sonatas by Beethoven, Franck and Debussy. 

There was something for everyone in Maxim Vengerov and Itamar Golan’s recital programme at the Barbican last night. The music of nine different nations was represented in a multicultural extravaganza of shifting horizons, moods and styles.

You are sitting in the choir stalls of the Royal Festival Hall, watching the ceramic artist and writer Edmund de Waal address you, his back to an enormous sea of empty, grey, imposing seats. He is delivering a vivid narrative account of a day in the life of a young aristocratic Jewish boy in early 20th-century Vienna.

If the Cadogan Hall’s “Celebrity Recital Series” conjures up unwelcome memories of Jordan’s brief career as a singer, never fear: the Hall has attracted a very different type of famous figure. Hilary Hahn is as unlike Katie Price as could be imagined: small, dark and unassuming, you could pass her in the street without a second glance.