En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Suite Holberg, Op.40

Leif Ove Andsnes offre à Genève deux concertos de Mozart très équilibrés qui ont succédé à une Suite Holberg de Grieg contrastée et palpitante. Le style énergique du Norwegian Chamber Orchestra a emporté l’adhésion du public genevois visiblement ravi par tant de jeunesse ! 

The Boston Symphony's final concert of 2024 is marked by appearance of the two conducting fellows from this summer’s Tanglewood Music Center, Ross Jamie Collins and Na’zir McFadden. 

La Sinfónica de Galicia con Dima Slobodeniouk en la dirección llevaron un programa con Strauss, Grieg y Beethoven a pequeñas localidades de Galicia.

As with so many performances this season, the Cleveland strings took front and center in works of Grieg and Korngold.

Mozart's Symphony no. 29 and Grieg's Holberg Suite provide a panacea as Singapore's Covid circuit breaker is lifted. 

Where great things take effort, truly great things happen naturally. Shoji's Brahms was the highlight of the evening.  

Das Ostrobothian Chamber Orchester zeigt unter Oramo eine musikalische Kraft und Begeisterungsfähigkeit, die nicht viele Dirigenten aus einem Klangkörper holen können.

Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the Southbank Chamber orchestra in a programme dedicated to the interpretation of classical dance forms.

Simon Trpčeski tackles a solo piano arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral masterpiece along with gentler Grieg and Mendelssohn. 

Four years ago, the ACO mounted The Reef. Mountain is clearly its successor: another film project involving scenes of nature peopled by extreme-sports enthusiasts, screened while an eclectic soundtrack is played live by the orchestra.

Two big-boned Mozart piano concertos played by Leif Ove Andsnes formed the meaty filling in a concert by the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra that showcased their superb ensemble characteristics.

The Orchestre Metropolitain’s Scandinavian Escape brought to mind the warmth and familiarity of home in this Sunday concert. 

The Australian Chamber Orchestra struggle with John Adams before finding their form in the music of Grieg, Maria Schneider (with Dawn Upshaw as soloist) and Elgar.

Scottish Ensemble’s “Nordic Nights” programme at St John's Kirk in Perth was lively and passionate mixing old and new pieces.

In conversation with Petroc Trelawny at the fourth of the Proms Chamber Music concerts, the 25-year-old Norwegian trumpeter Tine Ting Helseth casually dismissed her ten-piece brass ensemble tenThing’s all-female set-up as “just a gimmick”.

The Chamber Philharmonic Europe is an orchestra of some sixty players from all over Europe, founded in Cologne in 2006. During this past month, ten of its players have been touring a popular classical programme round small venues across the country, taking classical music to the far-flung reaches of the kingdom.

A well conceived thematic programme which made for a delightful evening from an eager, young orchestra. We were welcomed into Cadogan Hall by a group of musicians playing traditional Finnish dances in the gallery, which student Einojuhani had worked up into a thoroughly viable concert starter, which showed immediately that this was an orchestra to listen to.