En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Sept Lieder de jeunesse (Sieben frühe Lieder)

La formation dirigée par François-Xavier Roth associait Schönberg et Berg à la Première Symphonie de Mahler, dans un programme livré avec plus de précision que de souffle.

L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, aux aguets, provoque l’émotion… Sous la direction attentive et exigeante de Sir Mark Elder, la phalange genevoise offre une palette énorme de nuances sans jamais arriver au point de rupture. Quand l’intelligence est au service de la musicalité, la musique en sort toujours gagnante !

David Robertson makes a successful debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, substituting for Michael Tilson Thomas, in a hyper-romantic programme of Berg and Mahler.

El acierto de Davidsen radicó en no intentar llevar su voz al territorio el lied, sino en traer las canciones a su zona de lucimiento.

Im Rahmen des Eröffnungskonzerts wurde die neue Saison eingeläutet; dabei stellte sich Vassilis Christopoulos als neuer Chefdirigent der Grazer Philharmoniker vor. 

New music, old friends and supercharged Strauss from the Estonian Festival Orchestra.

NIcholas Collon conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a superbly conceived programme that demonstrates “quality, agility and impact”.

La Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife presentó un programa muy interesante con obras de Mahler y Berg, teniendo como artistas invitadas a la soprano alemana Katharina Ruckgaber y a la directora coreana Shiyeon Sung.

Finnegan Downie Dear leitete durch ein Spektrum sinnlicher Musik von Wagner bis Jonathan Harvey.

Spanning almost a century in musical terms, from the old-world elegance of Johann Strauss to one of his greatest admirers, Erich Korngold, John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London demonstrate orchestral excellence.

Luisi programmes Berg, the dark harmonist, and Schubert, the blithe melodist, as a musical yin and yang in Cologne. 

Louise Alder and Roger Vignoles offer French charm in their return to Wigmore Hall.

Man kann sich kaum entscheiden, was nun das Highlight des Konzerts in der Philharmonie sein soll.

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

RSNO Season opens in Dundee on Vienna’s Golden Age, Søndergård conducting a boisterous Don Juan, Karen Cargill singing Berg Seven Early Songs and a sparkling Mahler Symphony no 1.

Trotz der bekannten Komponisten Bach, Berg und Bruckner, bringt Paavo Järvi ein unbekanntes Programm nach Berlin.

Berg, unlike his teacher Schoenberg, didn't throw out the baby with the bathwater; Bruckner too never forgot his traditional roots. The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Paavo Järvi and Laura Aikin demonstrate.

Dorothea Röschmann has a soaring silvery line when needed (she is a famous Marschallin).

Elīna Garanča brings subtle sonorities to an otherwise bravura and boisterous concert by Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic.

Barbara Hannigan joined pianist Reinbert de Leeuw for a Second Viennese School recital at the Park Avenue Armory.

As part of the Konzerthaus’ Mittagsmusik (Midday Music) series, young soprano Anna Lucia Richter teamed up this week with one of the greatest living song accompanists, Gerold Huber, to present an extraordinarily varied matinée of songs in the Schubertsaal.

Soprano Lisa Larsson and pianist Roland Pöntinen dispelled the midwinter gloom with a heavy dose of Scandinavian Romanticism and the Dutch première of Rolf Martinsson's Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson.

Jennifer Larmore’s eclectic song recital themed around love and longing was uneven, but the heartfelt American songs left one craving for more.

For this diamond jubilee as a conductor, Bernard Haitink conducted the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic in a programme of Wagner, Berg and Mahler. 

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Christine Brewer close Wagner bicentenary celebrations at the Barbican by showing his influence on Strauss, Webern and Berg on December 20th.

Elina Garanča can always be counted on for a coolly polished performance. Her silvery mezzo is beautiful, even throughout her range, and impeccably on pitch. She is musically tasteful, and her sound has grown in recent years. But something often seems to be missing. While she’s too accomplished to call bland, her performances rarely show evidence of a beating heart.

Billed as “The soundtrack of the 20th century”, The Rest is Noise season of 2013 has now commenced at the Southbank Centre. Concert programmes scheduled throughout January have focused on the Second Viennese School and its infamous break with western tonality.

Can two composers have so much, yet so little in common? Or be such accommodating, yet such uncomfortable bedfellows? The SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg with their principal conductor François-Xavier Roth addressed these questions in exhilarating style, in a “turn-of-the-century time capsule” which thrilled and enchanted upon its opening.