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Pas aidé par la direction emphatique et statique de Myung-whun Chung, le lauréat du Concours Van Cliburn n'a pas su déployer son jeu dans le Concerto de Robert Schumann.

Le pianiste et l'orchestre monégasque placé sous la direction de Stanislav Kochanovsky ont su brillamment rendre les multiples facettes du romantisme dans un programme qui allait de Weber à Rachmaninov.

Mario Venzago and Steven Isserlis share an unusual programme of Kabalevsky and Schubert at the Victoria Concert Hall. 

The 37-year-old Hong Kong native brings her calling card, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, to colorful life during a conducting tour through the United States. 

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.

Some thrilling moments in a memorable evening of Brahms and Weber, with the Philharmonia and Michael Collins on riveting form.  

Andrés Orozco-Estrada and the Filarmonica della Scalla boldly go into the Romantic repertoire, with mixed results.

The soprano is lifted to lyrical heights by the Filarmonia della Scala and Andrés Orozco-Estrada at the open air Wolkenturm on the final night of the festival. 

Vasily Petrenko unleashes powerful and poetic sounds in Sibelius' Second Symphony and Jess Gillam dazzles in one of Michael Nyman's works while the European Union Youth Orchestra shows off its remarkable qualities.

In charge of La Scala forces, Daniel Harding finds gloom in the overture to Der Freischütz but keeps it in check in one of the world's most popular symphonies.

Things went from good to great in the course of the Götterdämmerung highlights.

Alena Baeva gets under the skin of Tchaikovsky's concerto in this outstanding concert. 

The London Philharmonic Orchestra under Andrés Orozco-Estrada explore Romanticism in Weber and Rachmaninov, with Juian Bliss providing a classical contrast in Mozart's clarinet concerto.

The visiting Budapest Festival Orchestra delivered traditional repertoire with some unexpected quirks.

Tonight’s all-Germanic program was a selection of items that the Nationa; Symphony Orchestra will be playing next month on the other side of the Atlantic.

The Philharmonia's rich strings shine in an ultimately incosistent evening of Romantic classics.

Stanisław Skrowaczewski makes a triumphant return to the Hallé to conduct Brahms, Schumann and Weber of supreme logic and coherence

The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra revels in magic and the supernatural.

Sir Mark Elder conducted the Hallé in an unusual programme of music themed around hunting. There were many excellent performances, most memorably in Britten's Our Hunting Fathers, which added substantial depth to the evening.Assistant conductor Jamie Phillips began proceedings with a solid account of Haydn’s Symphony no. 73, “La Chasse”.

We know what to expect from a virtuoso showpiece like Paganini's second Violin Concerto: a mighty contest between man and music, for us to be on the edge of our seats marvelling at how the violinist dazzles us with notes on the edge of possibility and grand gestures, with a mild frisson of "will he really manage it?"There is another way, demonstrated by the young Japanese-American violinist Shunsk