Instrument: Cor anglais

Four composers from four countries "translate" Shakespeare

Bernard Rands' new concerto, with Robert Walters as soloist, the centerpiece of a concert that also included Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.

Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony and Hindemith’s Konzertmusik round out a very satisfying concert.

Bonn is all about Beethoven. His image is everywhere – on one of the first statues built in Germany for a musician in 1845 in the main Munsterplatz by the cathedral, in the tourist office regalia, in directions to the house where he was born in 1770 (now a museum), in the month-long, annual Beethoven Festival, in the 2,000-seat Beethovenhalle, and, most especially, in the orchestra.

The music of Richard Strauss is dramatic, radical and philosophical. It is also a surprisingly good cure for a February cold; its sheer vitality blows away those winter blues.

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

L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande sous la baguette de Jonathan Nott poursuit son chemin vers l’excellence. Nelson Goerner offre un concerto de Ravel stratosphérique ! Heureux genevois !