This month, Maxim Vengerov rejoins the Polish Chamber Orchestra. Having toured Mozart with them this past fall, Maxim once again revisits Mozart’s Violin Concertos Nos. 4 and 5, as well as Saint-Saëns’s Havannaise and Rondo Capriccioso with the ensemble. They are first heard on February 9 at the Royal Opera House Muscat, followed by Istanbul’s ?? Sanat Culture Center on February 11. Finally, they perform in Geneva’s Victoria Hall on February 13.

On February 8, Olga Borodina returns to the Mariinsky Theatre to reprise her acclaimed Dalila in Saint-Saëns’s opera Samson et Dalila. Given in a special gala concert, the work is conducted by French maestro Emmanuel Villaume.

Olga can be heard alongside tenor Clifton Forbis as Samson, Yevgeny Nikitin as the High Priest, and Edward Tsanga as Abimélech.

(Photo: Mariinsky Theatre)

This Sunday, Maxim Vengerov joins the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano. Maxim reprises his acclaimed account of Britten’s Violin Concerto, a performance of which at the Ravinia Festival last summer was dubbed one of the best classical and opera events of 2013 by The Chicago Sun–Times.

Maestro Pappano also leads the orchestra in Elgar’s In the South and the world premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s Symphony No. 10. For tickets, click here.

On January 16, Olga Borodina joins maestro Yuri Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection.” Of her performance in the work with Valery Gergiev at Carnegie Hall, the New York Times praised Borodina’s “luminous, deep tone” in the “Urlicht” section.

The spectacular work will be heard in the city’s Philharmonia and also includes soprano Lucy Crowe, the Smolny Cathedral Chamber Choir, and the Petersburg Chamber Choir. For more information and tickets, click here.

Maxim Vengerov’s Friday recital at London’s Barbican Centre has earned acclaim from audiences and critics alike.

“The encores to the encores could have gone on all night,” raved The Independent, which awarded the performance five out of five stars. “How nice to report that among fiddlers Maxim Vengerov, now 39, once again reigns supreme.”

“The recital given on Friday by Vengerov and Itamar Golan, his lugubrious but rock-solid piano accompanist, was the stuff of legends,” concurred The Times, which went on to add that “Vengerov sounded as insouciantly virtuosic as he has ever done.”

Maxim Vengerov’s London schedule continues with a public masterclass at the Royal Academy of Music on January 14 and a chamber concert at the Barbican Centre on January 17.