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This top-quality recording captures a virtuosic performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
The composer’s ballet score becomes an orchestral spectacular in this splendid recording
The New York Philharmonic hopes donors will be drawn to Gustavo Dudamel’s charisma
The guest conductor brought vibrancy to Beethoven and presented his own lyrical new work
The conductor led the New York Philharmonic in the first of two programmes, with premieres from female composers
Gustavo Dudamel conducts a confusing Mozart while Hartmut Haenchen masters Mussorgsky
Though barred from his native Venezuela, the LA Philharmonic’s director remains deeply rooted in its musical credo
The development of a genuinely American music in four whistle-stop stages
Yuja Wang brings scintillating finger-work to Adams’s new piano concerto in this high-octane recording
The orchestra’s music director brought drive and flair to a programme of new music and 20th-century classics
Sonya Yoncheva is a dream of a Mimi, but Claus Guth’s spaceship production crashes and burns
The Venezuelans got the season off to a storming start with Ravel, Stravinsky, hoedowns and mambos
The second night of the orchestra’s residency was a constant battle between music and visuals
The orchestra was at the top of its game in this showcase of music from the Americas
The pianist marked 60 years at the venue by playing Brahms with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra
Two Stravinsky ballet scores were performed with power but lacked subtlety
World’s most prestigious classical music job remains available after disagreements among musicians
The orchestra performed works by Mahler and Orbón with plenty of panache but little subtlety
Under Gustavo Dudamel’s baton, the orchestra made a characteristically massive sound
Gustavo Dudamel conducts with a strong sense of colour and bursts of fire, but the orchestra’s virtuosity sounds hard-won
The Frank Gehry-designed hall has helped transform downtown Los Angeles
John Adams’ operatic oratorio is hampered by long-time collaborator Peter Sellars, though his musical imagination still shines through
As a mission statement, the residency was impressive, even if the opening event was musically unsatisfactory
Once the poster-boy of El Sistema, one of the world’s most sought-after conductors talks about his philosophy of life and music
Art, as Auden almost said, makes nothing happen. Or perhaps art’s first duty is to be true to itself in the valley of its own making
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