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Though embroiled in a labour dispute, the orchestra performed splendidly
The central attraction at the opening of the 125th season took the friendly form of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1
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The staggeringly talented NYO, joined by Chinese pianist Yundi, played as if lives were at stake
Even in a reduced form, Kurt Weill’s musico-dramatic hybrid was a sprawling mishmash
Despite its worthy democratic intentions, an orchestra with no maestro loses a degree of spontaneity
The diva delivered hum-along Americana and jazzy, repetitive arrangements to a devout audience
The mezzo-soprano presented a thrilling evening of challenging chamber music
In Scriabin’s gigantic Symphony No. 3, Muti found precision amid increasingly wild theatricality
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A beautifully executed programme from one of New York’s ‘lesser’ musical institutions
This recital of Mahler’s Ninth was another triumph for the brilliant, indefatigable James Levine
Howard Hanson’s opera still sounds turgid, bloated and bombastic after 80 years
The ambience at this Spring for Music Festival event was casual, the music-making anything but
An electro-rock reworking of the Austrian composer’s music in which guitar and Mahler were difficult to discern
Vienna’s finest produced a first-class concert performance of Berg’s masterpiece
The energetic but sensitive James Levine conjured Mahler both nuanced and explosive
An enterprising revival of Richard Strauss’s fascinating, frustrating, rarely performed opera
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The maestro’s return to the podium was greeted with a richly deserved standing ovation
This 1944 operetta, based on the life and music of Grieg, here resembled a sprawling banality bonanza
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