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Lim Dong-hyek "10th Anniversary Edition" Lim Dong-hyek, one of Korea's promising classical artists, has released the special album "Dong-hyek Lim: 10th Anniversary Edition," to celebrate his past decade as a professional pianist.

The happy couple will play a commissioned duet by Richard Danielpour on a program of works by Mozart, Debussy and Ravel.

Soulful expression, instrumental virtuosity, playful banter are the hallmarks of Intersection, a trio that will perform at 7:30 p.m. Feb.

The Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, which will commemorate its 50th anniversary this year, is excited to present programs fit for the occasion, led by principal conductor Sylvain Cambreling, resident conductor Tatsuya Shimono and other illustrious guest conductors.

Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performs Liszt's Concerto No. 2, Wagner's Prelude and 'Liebestod' from 'Tristan und Isolde' and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade in A Minor with the Tschaikowski St.

Why we care: This is one of those classical releases that draws a large audience because Bell is one of the best-known soloists around nowadays, probably the heir apparent to Itzhak Perlman in terms of violin virtuosity and appeal.

Not many violinists play with the finesse and spotless technique Joshua Bell shows so consistently in everything he records.

Keys player - LISE DE LA SALLE - The young French pianist makes her Boston recital debut with a program of works by Ravel, Debussy, and Beethoven.

Between Spain and France, dances and foot stamping! The exotic and famous Dance Bacchanal from the opera presented at the end of the season, Samson and Delilah, by C. Saint-Saens, tells the party that held the Philistines to capture Samson after the treacherous Delilah takes the strength he had in his long hair.

If Paris had a soundtrack this would be the classical version -- Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" and Ravel's "Bolero." There's more, too, which is why the Pittsburgh Symphony is celebrating "The Paris Festival," a three-week series of concerts for $90. Thursday evening the Paris Festival Ambassadors met at Heinz Hall to kick off the ... (more)

Joshua Bell, MusicalAmerica instrumentalist of the year in 2010 and recipient of dozens of comparable awards, is comfortable performing with a potpourri of talented friends, be they classical, pop, country or world-music artists.

Dora Marshall Mullin will celebrate her 85 birthday this month, and will perform a violin concert at Chandler Hall at Old Dominion University on Jan.

Franz Liszt once said, "My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future." Indeed, though as both performer and composer he was one of the potent forces of Romanticism, Liszt's impact on modernism - on composers such as Ravel, Scriabin and Schonberg - was considerable.

At 7:30pm on Thursday, February 16, Gil Morgenstern's celebrated Reflections Series continues the 2011-2012 season in its intimate home, WMP Concert Hall .

The Santa Barbara Symphony will start out the new year with a spectacular brace of concerts featuring virtuoso violinist Anne Akiko Meyers at 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday in the Granada Theatre .

Tom Harrell is without question one of the most important jazz trumpet players now working.