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Juilliard Orch/Royal Academy Symphony Orch / Salonen/Frang review – student players let rip, eventually

Esa-Pekka Salonen led an orchestra of players from London’s Royal Academy of Music and New York’s Juilliard School through 20th-century classics with Vilde Frang the electrifying soloist in Berg’s Violin Concerto

The Guardian - UK

BBC Proms review: Salonen conducts 20th-Century Classics in style

4/5 Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the cream of Juilliard Orchestra and Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra in a fine evening at the BBC Proms

Evening Standard

LSO/Frang/Pappano review – tragic and thrilling Shostakovich and silky and spiky Korngold

Vilde Frang revealed the expressionistic bones of Korngold’s Violin Concerto in her performance of this 1945 work, part of a concert that included Imogen Holst’s Persephone and a drama-filled reading of Shostakovich’s 5th

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New heights, fond farewells and daring acrobatics – the year in classical music

It was a thrilling year with glittering new works, an electrifying Proms season, Puccini in a laundry and Britten on a trapeze

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From exquisite Elgar to razor-sharp Cage: our classical recordings of the year

A piano prodigy burst onto the scene, studio opera recordings were few and far between – and the year’s most rewarding discs were the ones that ventured beyond the mainstream

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Tales of Hoffmann; Philharmonia/ Salonen; Berlin Philharmonic/ Petrenko – review

Wild fantasies take hold in Offenbach’s compellingly strange opera; Lawrence Power is more than a match for Magnus Lindberg’s new Viola Concerto; and to the underworld with the Berlin Phil

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Arcangelo/Cohen/Frang/Doyle review – Tetbury festival closes with sublime baroque programme

Violinist Vilde Frang and soprano Julia Doyle Jonathan Cohen’s Arcangelo ensemble for music that was both glorious and heartbreaking

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Elgar: Violin Concerto album review – Vilde Frang’s exceptional performance makes this one of the finest to appear on disc

In a startling, authoritative performance of Elgar’s demanding masterpiece, the Norwegian violinist and Robin Ticciati are utterly convincing

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The week in classical: La forza del destino; Bayerisches Staatsorchester/ Jurowksi; Chouchane Siranossian – review

Ignore the fanciful plot and submit to the musical glories of the Royal Opera’s bravura revival of unwieldy Verdi. And to the top of the mountain with Vladimir Jurowski and co

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Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Jurowski review – vividly pictorial

The 500-year-old orchestra celebrated its rich history with a Technicolor performance of Strauss’s Alpine Symphony and the UK premiere of Ukrainian composer Victoria Poleva’s White Interment

The Guardian - UK

CBSO/Gražinytė-Tyla/Frang review – remarkable performance brings out Elgar’s extraordinary beauty

On her final tour as conductor of the CBSO Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, here joined by violin virtuoso Vilde Frang captures every moment of febrility and nobility with a startling immediacy

The Guardian - UK

Beethoven and Stravinsky Violin Concertos review – Frang and Kuusisto create sweetness, swagger and exhilaration

In his first recording as conductor, Pekka Kuusisto is insightful and in control, and Vilde Frang brings electricity to both concertos

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