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With Muti’s departure as music director at the end of June coming ever closer, each of his appearances with the orchestra seems to carry added meaning and emotion, and it certainly felt that way Thursday.

Despite great commitment from the mezzo-soprano, the four string players merged into corporate facelessness in this performance of Brahms and Schumann

German pianist and conductor who brought exceptional sensitivity and lyricism to his performances

The Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra has for a very long time enjoyed the enthusiastic support of a sizeable, loyal local cohort of music aficionados who attend many (in a few cases, all) of each season's concerts as a significant part of their essential cultural experience. Following the latest outing by…

Daniele Rustioni and his orchestra brought accuracy and beauty to Wagner, Mahler and Schumann, while soprano Louise Alder’s account of Strauss’s Four Last Songs was deeply moving

The pianists united to play Stravinsky’s overwhelming and savage two-piano version of the Rite of Spring, with Adams, Schumann and Debussy in the first half

Pianist of exceptional talent whose lack of flamboyance, together with his technical command, emphasised the effortlessness of his playing

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Tenor Jonas Kaufmann’s dark and beautiful tone captured Schumann’s introspection and interlocked with soprano Diana Damrau’s wonderful vocal lines for a ravishing Brahms closer

Isabelle Faust and Antonello Manacorda did their best to make the case for Schumann’s problematic violin concerto, while Manacorda brought something fresh to familiar works