Salle: Symphony Hall, Boston

Britten’s Violin Concerto could easily qualify as a Mount Everest for violinists, but Augustin Hadelich scaled it with deceptive ease.

A semi-staging of Golijov's “tone poem in voices” in Boston's Symphony Hall. 

Gautier Capuçon gives the US premiere of Thierry Escaich's second cello concerto, Les Chants de l’aube. 

Thomas Adès conducts music from his own ballet score to The Dante Project and Stravinsky's Persephone. 

Lahav Shani brings a kinetic presence to the Boston Symphony podium in a concert featuring Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Jean-Yves Thibaudet playing Saint-Saëns. 

Soloists Klaus Florian Vogt, Christian Gerhaher, Amber Wagner and Marina Prudenskaya star in Act 3 of Tannhäuser.

Virtuosity infused with a tension which became almost unbearable

Alan Gilbert turns the usual concert format on its head, ending his program with Dvořák’s Carnival Overture to follow a trio of works new to the orchestra.