Hélène Grimaud is returning in style to BOZAR. She is accompanied by one of the best American ensembles, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the charismatic Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. They a...

Established in 1781, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig is very much a compendium of musical history. From Mendelssohn to Chailly via Nikisch, Furtwängler, Walter and Masur, many inimitable music directo...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony enjoys an unrivalled position among the all-time greats of music. The composer said that the first few notes sound like "fate knocking at the door". E. T. A. Hoffmann said...

Bernstein and Karajan regarded Mahler's Ninth Symphony as one of the finest works ever composed. Mahler wrote the composition shortly after the death of his daughter. Its metaphysical gravitas makes...

The Houston Symphony's many distinguished musical directors include Fricsay, Stokowski, Barbirolli, Previn and Eschenbach. Taking up the baton in 2014, the Colombian conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada is...

It is difficult to imagine anybody more suited to celebrate Estonia's 100th anniversary than Paavo Järvi. As the head of the Estonian Festival Orchestra, the conductor will demonstrate his country's...

The "Symphony of all symphonies", the "Pinnacle of the Romantic symphony" - words fail to express the musical, melodic and architectural splendour of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony. The outcome of a long ...

Joining forces with the Concertgebouworkest, the Hungarian conductor and composer Peter Eötvös is performing the Belgian premiere of his Multiversum, a work that draws its inspiration from cosmologica...

* Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel Music & Artistic Director and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra   The Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen will be headin...