En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Walt Disney Concert Hall

Leading his former orchestra and soloist Pekka Kuusisto, Esa-Pekka Salonen bookends his San Francisco commission with two crowd-pleasers from the standard repertory. 

A monster Mahler concert at Disney Hall, with guest conductor Earl Lee stealing the show in the Resurrection Symphony.

Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic open their “Mahler Grooves” festival, featuring Simon Keenlyside and Ekaterina Gubanova in Des Knaben Wunderhorn. 

Seong-Jin Cho proves rigid in Ravel, but the LAPO and guest conductor Paavo Järvi play Brahms–Schoenberg and Bacewicz to the hilt. 

A memorable, impassioned performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder in Disney Hall. 

Gustavo Dudamel selects a trio of works by Latin American composers for a colorful and extravagant evening at the LA Phil.

At Disney Hall, Gustavo Dudamel and Lang Lang open the LA Phil's season with Rachmaninov and Ginastera. 

Gustavo Dudamel's concept of a semi-staged Fidelio in collaboration with Deaf West Theatre gives a voice to Beethoven so enormous that those with hearing impairments can surely hear.

Gabriela Oritz' Altar de cuerda shows off Maria Dueñas' technical dazzle, her incomparable theatrical timing and her ability to completely commit to the music she is playing. 

Karina Canellakis comes along at just the right moment to see what a possible contender for the open LA Phil post could bring. 

Tilson Thomas's Petrushka is refreshingly curious and occasionally magical, recalling Bernstein in his dazzling New York Phil days. 

The best moments come at either end of this underwhelming LA Phil concert.  

A fully-staged performance of Wagner's Das Rheingold transforms Walt Disney Concert Hall to an opera house where the orchestra is the star. 

Gustavo Dudamel's program ends with a nod to musical worlds outside Disney Hall as indie star Sylvan Estrada sings three songs pulsing with hope and energized by activism.

Alpesh Chauhan conducts the LA Phil in the world premiere of Saad Haddad's cinematic Aysheen. 

Gustavo Dudamel pairs Stravinsky's Firebird with Villa-Lobos' rarely heard avian symphonic poem, Uirapurú. 

The pure and clean sound universe of Sibelius shines as Osmo Vänskä visits Disney Hall for the weekend. 

Conductor Emeritus Zubin Mehta leads The Los Angeles Philharmonic in an unforgettable reading of Mahler's massive symphony, played with incredible virtuosity and led with remarkable assurance.

John Adams' opera, in its third revision since its 2017, receives an outstanding concert performance in Walt Disney Concert Hall under the composer's baton. 

The Los Angeles Philharmonic soars in Mahler's profound Ninth Symphony, conducted by the legendary Michael Tilson Thomas.

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and its former Music Director thunder in Disney Hall in the latest stop on their US tour.

Thomas Adès' score to Wayne McGregor's ballet The Dante Project transfers to the concert hall in Los Angeles. 

The soloists and LA Master Chorale lead the way in a performance of Mozart's “Great” C minor Mass conducted by Zubin Mehta. 

The Marsch in Berg's Three Orchestra Pieces was engulfed in the same chaos that devastated the composer's world a century ago and is now threatening to devastate ours.

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. 

Dudamel starts off the inaugural concert in the LA Phil’s Ives symphony cycle. 

The Los Angeles Philharmonic under Salonen look back at the dwindling twilight years of the Weimar Republic. 

The Los Angeles Philharmonic under Salonen inaugurates their musical retrospective of Weimar Germany. 

Zubin Mehta returns to Disney Hall, demonstrating the multifaceted implications of Wagner and his “music of tomorrow”.

The Academy of Ancient Music played with such stylistic elegance, charm and sheer physical beauty that it was like hearing I Musici and Virtuosi di Roma for the first time in this repertoire in the 1950s.

Altogether it was the sort of music Gerard Hoffnung might have composed if he had ever held a serious music festival.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic brought back its Conductor Emeritus, Zubin Mehta, for an outstanding performance of Mahler's “Resurrection” Symphony as part of its 100th anniversary celebrations. 

Meredith Monk's ATLAS is presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Yuval Sharon's production.

Mahler's Eighth was the composer’s “gift to the nation”; Dudamel’s performance was a gift to Los Angeles. 

Javier Perianes beguiles and Yulianna Avdeeva surprises in Beethoven’s last two piano concertos. 

When it was announced from the stage that Gustavo Dudamel would not be conducting due to a "family emergency," the orchestra played for Conducting Fellow Stephen Mulligan as if he were a maestro.

Inferno, after Dante's Divine Comedy, is a 46-minute ballet score rich in astounding, ingenious, sumptuous effects with a particular genius for unlikely combinations of instruments, and only a few obvious Lisztian references.

Salonen brings his Stravinsky retrospective to a close with a pair of Greek-inspired scores. 

Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, arguably the conductor and orchestra par excellence of Stravinsky performance, debuts the first of their three-concert series dedicated to the former Angeleno. 

This was Tchaikovsky raw and fierce as if he had written it, as he might have, for a young lover.

Adams has written a sprawling new tour de force that masterfully turned Walt Disney Concert Hall into an acoustic planetarium of glorious sound.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel present Mahler’s Ninth Symphony as affirmation of life, rather than neurotic obsession over death. 

Works by Still and Ellington make their welcome appearance at Disney Hall, but the presentation left a bit to be desired. 

As a blend of music, song, and dance with a Cirque du Soleil joie de vivre, Buddha Passion was an unforgettable theatrical experience.

Elim Chan lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic through a high-powered program of Chinese and French music that began and ended with virtuoso showpieces written less than 30 years apart.

Mälkki triumphs in the subtleties of Saariaho, stumbles in the ecstasies of Messiaen. 

A rare misfire showcasing the music of minimalism’s all-stars. 

MTT was back in Los Angeles for another spell as guest, this time bringing to local audiences one of his specialties of the house. 

Susanna Mälkki’s choppy, uneven Mahler 5, preceded by a Steve Reich world première.