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Aux côtés d'un Boris Giltburg explosif, Cristian Măcelaru et l'ONF se complaisent dans un perfection sonore absolue qui confine parfois à une certaine platitude.

À la Philharmonie, l'Orchestre de Paris invite Jakub Hrůša à la direction, le violoniste Renaud Capuçon et la mezzo-soprano Stéphanie d'Oustac pour un programme riche et varié.

Retour sur la création française du Sieidi du finlandais Kalevi Aho sous la baguette alerte de Marzena Diakun.

Smetana, Janacek et Dvorak réunis autour de trois œuvres aux positionnements esthétiques différents sous la direction de Christian Arming. Un véritable potentiel émerge de cette rencontre entre l'Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc Roussilon et l'actuel directeur musical de l'Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège.

Duncan Ward leads a varied programme from Bartók and Janáček to Chausson, closing with a benchmark performance of La Mer. 

Concierto de excelente confección en el Thomas Adès dirigió obras propias y de Janáček, ofreciendo una lección en torno a su música y la de un autor por el que siente especial atracción.

With fresh programming and superb performances, artists-in-residence Magdalena Kožená and Sir Simon Rattle add another dimension to the Czech Philharmonic season.

The Czech Philharmonic, in tremendous form, still play their core repertoire with unaffected naturalness.

The Hong Kong Phil and Long Yu crossing the cultural divide in a trio of Slavic works.

The Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich recently nestled a performance by the gifted American violinist Hilary Hahn into its programme of works by Janáček, Prokofiev and Dvořák.

Mitreißender Spannungsbogen bei Lutosławskis Dritter Symphonie mit dem Radio Filharmonisch Orkest unter Edward Gardner und auch Jean-Efflam Bavouzet glänzte in Bartóks Erstem Klavierkonzert.

Prophecies and apocalyptic visions were on the programme as part of the London Philharmonic's Be Moved season.

The Hallé under Cristian Măcelaru performs a thrilling concert of works inspired by legends, along with Poulenc's Organ Concerto. 

Despite the burbling streams with which Smetana's Vltava trickles into life, this was no pastoral stroll on the gentle slopes of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland.

When the Boston Symphony audience embraces a conductor with sustained, enthusiastic applause as they did with Jakub Hrůša, making his debut, they are not only expressing their approval; they are saying you belong.

Die Brünner Philharmoniker und das Klavierduo Silver-Garburg überzeugen im Wiener Konzerthaus mit Heldenreisen aller Arten.

Die Kieler Philharmoniker traten in großer Symphoniebesetzung mit drei Schlagwerkern auf, und sogar die dem Konzertsaal eigene Orgel wurde an diesem Abend gespielt.

Jeremy Denk gave an athletic performance of Bartók's formidable second piano concerto, complemented by a Dvořák overture and two major works of Janáček.

Jakub Hrůša proves to be a musician who can put his personal inspiring stamp on each music piece he conducts.

The second evening of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival offered an interesting programme dynamically conducted by the Russian master. The theme this year was The Great War. 

The 2013 Britten centenary celebrations are now well under way with every major and minor musical institution, British and foreign, scheduling a broad range of works in honour of Britten’s birth.

Michael Francis is the go-to conductor to replace fellow maestros at short notice. The newly appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor to Norrköping Symphony Orchestra in Sweden stood in for Valery Gergiev with only 12 hours’ notice, and for John Adams with even less, in performances with the London Symphony Orchestra in 2007.

When you go to see a student orchestra play a concert, your expectations are generally lower than with professional orchestras. And so, when the Symfonieorkest of the Amsterdam Conservatory and soloists from the same Conservatory came to Leiden with an exciting program of Ravel, Prokofiev, Dvořák and Janáček, I thought it’d be a fun night, but not necessarily impressive.