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Guide to Romantic Music

Romantics Month 2020
Find events with music from the Romantics around the world
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TokyoYu Ito / Tomomi Shinozaki / Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Rachmaninov, Strauss R.
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra; Yu Ito; Tomomi Shinozaki

GrafeneggTonkünstler-Orchester & Asmik Grigorian

Grafenegg Kulturbetriebsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Respighi, Bellini, Verdi, Bonis, Strauss R.
Tonkünstler-Orchester; Fabien Gabel; Asmik Grigorian

LucernePittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 2

© Todd Rosenberg
Adams, Penderecki, Dvořák
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Manfred Honeck; Anne-Sophie Mutter

DresdenKreuzchor und Philharmonie

© Martin Jehnichen
Mendelssohn
Dresden Philharmonic; Martin Lehmann; Julia Kleiter; Marie-Henriette Reinhold; Mauro Peter; Dresdner Kreuzchor

StockholmSea Music and Symphonic Dances

© Neda Navaee | Daniel Stigefelt
Smyth, Britten, Elgar, Rachmaninov
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Maxim Emelyanychev; Nina Stemme
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Petrenko and the Berlin Phil demonstrate their world-class status

Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker © Berliner Philharmoniker | Lena Laine
Moving Elgar and gripping Tchaikovsky from the Berliner Philharmoniker and their Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko, effortlessly at the top of their game.
*****
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A searing start to the new Czech Philharmonic season

Karen Gomyo and the Czech Philharmonic © Petr Chodura
Conductor Semyon Bychkov and soloist Karen Gomyo set the tone for an exhilarating evening of mind-expanding musicality.
****1
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Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust diabolically good at the Proms

Gerald Finley and Les Siècles © BBC | Mark Allan
Les Siècles and Jakob Lehmann are joined by four fine soloists for Berlioz’s “dramatic legend” on Goethe's Faust
****1
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Scriabin and Beethoven from the Berlin Phil in Edinburgh

Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker © Courtesy of the Edinburgh International Festival
The Berliner Philharmoniker closes the Edinburgh International Festival in the classiest way imaginable with Beethoven and Scriabin.
*****
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Noa Naamat’s powerful Aida opens the season in Helsinki

Monica Zanettin (Aida) © Emma Suominen
Finnish National Opera and Ballet’s season opens with an earthy new production of Verdi's perennial favourite, Aida, given a contemporary setting where even the victors suffer. 
****1
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