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New York Philharmonic christens David Geffen Hall with a spangling gala and some breakneck Beethoven
In the hall’s intimate setting, Philharmonic players surveyed three disparate challenges for strings
Susanna Mälkki made an imposing New York debut with a programme of Brahms and Jonathan Harvey
In Eötvös’s discourse in dissonance, the lead voices were often submerged by the textural din
The first concert in the orchestra’s five-day residency was dominated by waltzes
The orchestra met the challenge of a line-up featuring orderly dissonance, lush delicacy and fine fine frenzy
Adès manipulated a huge orchestral apparatus with virtuosic clarity but tended to overconduct
The concert’s main attraction, Carl Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto, was compellingly played
Beauty queen who went on to gain New York political posts
Unsuk Chin’s quirky clarinet gave way to titanic Mahler in the season’s first subscription concert
The region’s oldest arts festival returns to its Roman site – in a Hizbollah stronghold near the Syrian border
Toshio Hosokawa’s mini-opera gives Poe’s poem a Japanese ritualistic setting
Another satisfying chapter in an ongoing transatlantic musical exchange
Alan Gilbert presided over second performances of two recent works
Though imaginative and unconventional, this event – an amalgam of art-forms – lacked focus
The Finnish composer has softened his aesthetic to accord with market-friendly American taste
Andrew Clark surveys a rich and varied array of recordings of the Austrian composer’s work
Gary Thor Wedow was a last-minute replacement for Emmanuelle Haïm, but high communal spirits made even major blemishes seem minor
Featuring three conductors and a throng of performers, this event was bold and bracing – at least when it came to modern music
A change of venue and conductor for a showcase of contemporary daring in three bracing guises
The world premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s new piano concerto featured knuckle-busting solos played with boundless energy
This all-American programme of music was all about conductor and composer André Previn
This performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony under music director Alan Gilbert barely broke sweat
A study in contrasts: Thomas Adès’s brief, glittery ‘Polaris’ has its New York premiere as a prelude to Mahler’s sprawling Ninth Symphony
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