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Carolina Eyck was mesmerising in Kalevi Aho’s theremin concerto, while Kaija Saariaho’s Vista and Shostakovich’s 15th symphony were superbly played by the BBC Philharmonic

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Gustavo Gimeno have announced the appointment of conductor and composer Trevor Wilson as the TSO’s next RBC Resident Conductor and the extension of Simon Rivard as the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra Conductor.

Jean Sibelius’s sole concerto, in which every note is valuable, according to Ida Haendel, remains among his most popular works. David Gutman surveys recordings reaching back nine decades

Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, Spain announces the appointment of 2021 American Pianists Awards winner Kenny Broberg as Deputy Professor of the Fundación Banco Santander Piano Chair led by Professor Stanislav Ioudenitch, starting in the 2022-2023 academic year.

A bewitching performance captures all the rigour and feathery fragility of Abrahamsen’s crystalline sound world

After the extraordinary musical developments of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven the composition of a symphony became a daunting challenge, for many years the ultimate challenge for any composer. Many rose magnificently to that challenge, not least Brahms, Mahler, Sibelius and Shostakovich

Championed at a young age by Sibelius himself, the brilliantly imaginative Rautavaara has gone on to prove himself a worthy successor to the great man, says Hilary Finch

Big box sets, a symphonic swansong in miniature and contemporary music for piano trio Reviews by Graham Rickson

DSO music director Fabio Luisi will lead 100 musicians in the Mahler First Symphony.

By MICHAEL ANDOR BRODEUR | The Washington Post | Published: March 11, 2021 I look up and behold the ornately ornamented ceiling of Detroits Orchestra Hall, a place Ive never actually been. I look down and my legs have vanished, replaced by a single black pole terminating into a tripod. I look all around and find every other seat in the hall empty, though Im told that at least 10 of us are in attendance. And onstage in front of me, I see the 19 socially distanced members of the Detroit Symphon...