Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Dima Slobodeniouk conducts Berg/Verbey & Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony, with Olli Mustonen giving the Finnish premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Third Piano Concerto. Live Yle Areena webcast.

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Dima Slobodeniouk conducts Berg/Verbey & Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony, with Olli Mustonen giving the Finnish premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Third Piano Concerto. Live Yle Areena webcast.

Oct 1, 2025 | Concert Reviews, Videos

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 Concert Hall, Helsinki Music Centre, Mannerheimintie 13 A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland The notion of orchestrating a work for piano (or a piece of chamber music), in this case the single-movement Opus One Sonata of Alban Berg, begs the question,...
Berliner Philharmoniker – Thomas Guggeis conducts Also sprach Zarathustra & Daphnis et Chloé (Suite No.2), and Maximilian Hornung plays Dutilleux’s Tout un monde lointain. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Berliner Philharmoniker – Thomas Guggeis conducts Also sprach Zarathustra & Daphnis et Chloé (Suite No.2), and Maximilian Hornung plays Dutilleux’s Tout un monde lointain. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Sep 27, 2025 | Concert Reviews, Videos

Thomas Guggeis Saturday, September 27, 2025 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Philharmoniker debut week for conductor and cellist, the third evening for Thomas Guggeis (born 1993) to enter with Richard Strauss’s Zarathustra and its...
Česká filharmonie/Czech Philharmonic – live on STAGE+ – Semyon Bychkov conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, with Seong-Jin Cho playing Ravel’s G-major Piano Concerto.

Česká filharmonie/Czech Philharmonic – live on STAGE+ – Semyon Bychkov conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, with Seong-Jin Cho playing Ravel’s G-major Piano Concerto.

Sep 26, 2025 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Ravel 150: born 1875 on March 7, Videos

Friday, September 26, 2025 Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague The opening of the Czech Philharmonic’s 25-26 Season (its 130th), with this programme previously played the evening before, both therefore conspicuously lacking a shortish starter (overtures are too...
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Ryan Wigglesworth conducts his own For Laura, after Bach, Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony, with Daniel Lozakovich playing Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Ryan Wigglesworth conducts his own For Laura, after Bach, Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony, with Daniel Lozakovich playing Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Sep 26, 2025 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Thursday, September 25, 2025 City Halls, Glasgow Ryan Wigglesworth”s tribute to Laura Samuel – music that would fit into Britten’s Frank Bridge Variations and reminds of Tippett’s Corelli Fantasia (both also for strings), with Bach motifs...
Closing concert of the 2025 George Enescu International Festival – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Romanian Rhapsody No.1 and The Rite of Spring, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet playing Saint-Saëns’s ‘Egyptian’ Piano Concerto. Live relay on TV Romania.

Closing concert of the 2025 George Enescu International Festival – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Romanian Rhapsody No.1 and The Rite of Spring, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet playing Saint-Saëns’s ‘Egyptian’ Piano Concerto. Live relay on TV Romania.

Sep 21, 2025 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Sunday, September 21, 2025 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania A rollicking account of Enescu’s timeless Romanian Rhapsody, Opus 11/1, to open, the RCO and Klaus Mäkelä nicely flexible and characterful in the opening measures and terrific in...