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Le violoniste et chef d'orchestre a déçu dans un programme qui a cruellement manqué de narratif, de dialogue avec l’orchestre dans le concerto et de phrasé dans la symphonie.

En soliste dans le Concerto op. 64 comme à la baguette le reste du concert, le violoniste autrichien se place au service du discours romantique mendelssohnien, léger, ciselé, ardent.

Au sein de la série de concerts organisés par Les Grands Interprètes, la phalange écossaise et son directeur musical ont fait forte impression en compagnie de la brillante violoniste Alina Ibragimova.

Curieux programme pour le Philhar' : de Rameau, Bach, Mendelssohn et Stravinsky, c'est ce dernier qu'on retiendra. Au violon, Vilde Frang déploie une énergie phénoménale, soutenue par un orchestre enthousiaste.

La soirée « Grâce et génie – Enfants prodiges » affichée comme second concert de la saison, et premier avec chef invité ambitionnait de réunir deux compositeurs ayant marqué l'histoire : Mozart et Mendelssohn.

Le Hong Kong Sinfonietta aura été plus Mendelssohnien que Mozartien, Paul Meyer aura brillé un peu solitaire, tel un diamant peu serti... 

Pour ce programme pour le moins éclectique, l’ONCT accueillait le très jeune mais non moins talentueux chef américain Joshua Weilerstein et la violoniste soliste lettone Baiba Skride.

Antony Hermus mène avec entrain l’Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen en Écosse depuis Rome.

Two Camille’s anchor the first half of Samy Rachid’s Tanglewood program: Saint-Saëns and Pépin. 

Pichon ersetzend, verhalfen Ensemble und einspringender Dirigent von Komponisten Durchlebtem zu eindrücklicher Deutung – samt spezieller Widmung.

Daishin Kashimoto, Alexander Chaushian y la Franz Schubert Filharmonia ofrecieron un programa compuesto por el Doble concierto de Brahms y la Sinfonía núm. 3 de Mendelssohn, bajo la dirección precisa y clara de Tomàs Grau.

Championing British musicm the Ulster Orchestra also performs a seldom heard work by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. 

La Orquesta de Valencia, dirigida por Alexander Liebreich, estrenó Orbes, quasi una passacalgia, de Carlos Fontcuberta, en un concierto en el que lo contemporáneo se impuso al repertorio canónico. 

Christian Thielemann conducts bracing accounts of Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony and Strauss' Ein Heldenleben in the Concertgebouw's fabled acoustic. 

Series of a composer's relatively neglected symphonies, or other genre, face one key test. Do the works emerge with greater stature than before?

A Tan Dun trombone concerto and a Joel Thompson world premiere combine varied influences in novel combinations, along with a lackluster Mendelssohn symphony.

Ponomarchuk and the LPO raise the spirits in Felix Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony after an underwhelming first half at the Brighton Dome. 

Joshua Bell directs the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in lively, well-crafted performances of Prokofiev and Mendelssohn in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. 

Iván Fischer brings his Budapest band to the BBC Proms in an evening of many surprises, with a convincing Schumann Piano Concerto from Sir András Schiff.

Guest conductor Matthias Pintscher pairs Webern's "idyll for large orchestra" with Richard Strauss' Oboe Concerto, featuring an elegant Philippe Tondre as soloist.

Garrick Ohlsson returns to the scene of earlier triumphs for breathtaking Brahms with Emmanuel Villaume and PKF – Prague Philharmonia.

Bevor die Wiener Philharmoniker und Christian Thielemann zu ihrer USA-Tour aufbrechen, machen sie Zwischenhalt in der Alten Oper mit einem Programm mit Brahms und Mendelssohn.

Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall radiates with an evening of persuasive interpretations from violinist and conductor Julian Rachlin. 

The chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker challenges his audience with a pairing of disparate symphonies by Mendelssohn and Shostakovich. Not something you encounter every day.

Zwei große Werke standen auf dem Konzertprogramm: die Schottische Symphonie von Mendelssohn und die Zehnte Symphonie von Schostakowitsch.

Alpesh Chauhan and the BBCSO give a finely judged “Scottish” Symphony, Timothy Ridout plays Sally Beamish's haunting Under the Wing of the Rock and a riotous Orkney Wedding with Sunrise concludes a celebration of Scotland. 

Two symphonies composed in 1842 were an interesting programming premise but the execution was something of a letdown, with musical subtlety in short supply.

Die junge finnische Dirigent gab sein Debüt bei den Münchner Philharmonikern unter strengen Hygieneregeln. Steril klang das Programm allerdings ganz und gar nicht.

The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra reopened its doors to audiences with majestic Mendelssohn.

The Gewandhausorchester lends its distinctive voice to Mahler, Schumann, Wagner, and Mendelssohn in its second solo Leipzig Week program

A rare Bach devotee among today's immensely talented crop of under-thirty pianists, Beatrice Rana interpreted both concertos with great incisiveness.

Nicholas Collon decides that Mendelssohn is really a very revolutionary composer, while Amy Dickson's saxophone and Ronald Brautigam in Mozart provide vibrant contrasts.

Fine performances of music associated with Queen Victoria, with a royal novelty thrown in to complete a programme marked by commitment and vigour. 

Herbert Blomstedt dirigiert Sibelius' Vierte Symphonie; ein Werk, auf das man sich emotional einstellen muss, um nicht von ihrer Düsternis hinfort gerissen zu werden.

Jan Latham-Koenig conducting the Flanders Symphony Orchestra reveals the drama and Romantic heart in Mendelssohn's Third Symphony, while Filippo Gorini chooses a classical approach to Beethoven.

An energetic performance from the Kansas City Symphony with Alessio Bax and David Lockington.

Herbert Blomstedt returns to Cleveland in authoritative performances of Beethoven’s “Pastoral” and Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” symphonies.

Expert conductor Herbert Blomstedt and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra bring impeccable Mendelssohn, Brahms and Stenhammar to Brussels.

Blomstedts Interpretationen von Brahms und Mendelssohn verbreiten pure Lebensfreude und Optimismus.

Scotch snap aplenty in evening of “Scottish Fantasy” with Hong Kong Philharmonic. 

With Andris Nelsons about to debut as Kapellmeister at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, a collaboration with his Boston Symphony was inaugurated in style. 

We were drenched in all sorts of dreams about Scotland as the Philadelphia Orchetra celebrated the country in their British Isles Festival

One had the opportunity to see The Cleveland Orchestra function as a true chamber ensemble without conductor as a program of Vivaldi, Haydn and Mendelssohn was led by concertmaster William Preucil.

Mit dem Orchesterkonzert am Pfingstsamstag gelang den Pfingstfestspielen, nach dem großen Erfolg mit Ariodante am Abend zuvor, ein programmatischer Coup, der musikalisch überaus überzeugend war.

Violinist Veronika Eberle has a successful San Francisco debut with the tricky Schumann concerto while the SF Symphony sounds somewhat limp under Robert Abbado with Busoni's Turandot and Mendelssohn's Scottish. 

Der Residenzkomponist und -dirigent der Elbphilharmonie gastierte mit Werken von Dvořák, Mendelssohn und einer eigenen Komposition im neuen Konzertsaal an der Elbe.

The Philadelphia connection continues in Montreal with Kensho Watanabe leading the Orchestre Métropolitain in an all-Mendelssohn program.

Callum Smart, playing Bruch’s Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor, and conductor Matthew Halls made very successful debuts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at a packed Cheltenham Town Hall.

Guest conductor Nicholas McGegan also led pleasing performances of Haydn’s Symphony no. 99 and Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony.