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Is his Third Symphony Rachmaninov’s most overlooked masterpiece? Nicholas Collon and the Hallé make the case for this brooding and elusive work at Sheffield City Hall.

Ensemble 360 goes seriously off piste in this richly varied concert of mostly American music curated by star trumpeter Matilda Lloyd

Is a concert ever worth more than five stars? This one – from the Hallé, Kahchun Wong and Sir Steven Hough – may well be.

Can you shrink La Mer into a piano trio? Ensemble 360 shows how it might be done, alongside a sparkling new work for trio forces by Dani Howard.

The Bradfield Festival strikes gold in programming the Woolf Quartet, a young ensemble on the brink of a spectacular future.

Ensemble 360 and soprano Claire Booth test to the limits the definition of ‘chamber music’ in this richly orchestral closing concert of the 2026 Sheffield Chamber Music Festival.

Vibrant, colourful music is played with every last ounce of enthusiasm as the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia rounds off its UK tour at Sheffield City Hall. 

The Fibonacci Quartet has been accumulating prizes and headlines like they’re going out of fashion, and this Music in the Round concert showed why.

Fretwork bring the expected and the startlingly unexpected to Sheffield in a revealing evening of music for viol consort. 

Dazzling young German pianist Julius Asal and stand-in conductor Duncan Ward breathe new life into the familiar in repertoire by Grieg and Sibelius.

Ensemble 360’s opening concert of their Sheffield spring season reveals the rich variety present in three very different Mozart quintets.

Is there a difference between music composed for films and music used in films? Can the former have a life beyond film? The Piatti Quartet looks for answers.

From Bach to the American Minimalists (and some of their friends and acquaintances) on Shani Diluka’s journey in search of transcendence.

The ninth instalment in the Leonore Piano Trio’s ‘Romantic Piano Trios’ series serves up a Chopin rarity alongside Mendelssohn’s impassioned late C minor Trio. 

Composers’ only works for piano trio, and works not for piano trio at all: an entirely normal concert for the ever-curious Linos Piano Trio.

Another day, another impeccable concert by Ensemble 360 and friends at this year’s Sheffield Chamber Music Festival.

A concert at 07:30 am? In a cemetery chapel? It must be the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival!

That a Turkish orchestra excels in Turkish music is no surprise... but in mainstream Western repertoire too? BIPO and Carlo Tenan charm Sheffield with their fresh take on the classics. 

An evening of Vaughan Williams’ greatest hits? There’s always an appetite for that, as Andrew Manze and the Hallé prove at Sheffield City Hall. 

Ensemble 360’s Music in the Round concert is a homage to the 20th-century English industrialist Walter Willson Cobbett... and also to the enduring popularity of The Lark Ascending. 

Though a perfect concert is hard to define, you know when you’ve attended one – and Beethoven and Shostakovich from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra provide the proof.

Horton and Gavrić take in swooning late Romanticism and brittle Soviet-era irony before unleashing the power of the Russian spring

A rare outing for Lili Boulanger’s Du fond de l'abîme is the high point of Delyana Lazarova’s concert with the Hallé in Sheffield, with fine performances of Debussy and Saint-Saëns running it close.

Slow movements steal the show in the Leonore Piano Trio’s superlative Music in the Round recital in Sheffield. 

Ensemble 360 offer a game of two halves at the Sheffield Crucible Playhouse, pairing works by Pavel Haas and Leoš Janáček. 

A horn recital or a turgid England football international? Ben Goldscheider makes it an easy choice at this year’s Bradfield Festival of Music. 

Saint-Saëns’ music offers artistry and beauty without the intrusion of personal feeling – which he abhorred – as this mesmerising concert by Ensemble 360 confirms.

Tamsin Waley-Cohen’s Chausson is the high point of the China Shenzhen’s performance, alongside a whole symphony, but only half a concerto.

The theatrical flair of flamboyant conductor Maxime Pascal and rock-steady Beethoven playing from brilliant young pianist Tom Borrow illuminate the Hallé’s concert in Sheffield. 

Charismatic saxophonist Jess Gillam pulls in the crowds, but the CBSO proves it has ‘pizzazz’ of its own under flamboyant conductor Eduardo Strausser.

Partly a concert, partly a gesture of solidarity, the Ukrainians give a heart-on-sleeve performance at Sheffield City Hall. 

Too often overshadowed by its neighbours, Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony gets star billing from Bihlmaier and the Hallé in Sheffield's City Hall. 

A centenary celebration of György Ligeti from Ensemble 360 in a concert of vibrant 20th-century music from Eastern Europe. 

How much emotion is too much emotion? After drily sardonic Adès and tender Shostakovich, the Hallé shows what happens when Tchaikovsky’s music is over-indulged.  

The temporary loss of their first violin holds no fears for the Doric Quartet in this richly satisfying concert of playful Haydn and driven Beethoven at the Bradfield Festival. 

Can you have too much Rachmaninov all in one go? On the basis of this tremendous Sheffield Chamber Music Festival recital, evidently not. 

Sheffield Chamber Music Festival goes on tour, but Ensemble 360’s string players are right at home in the unique “in the round” setting of St Martin’s Church, Stoney Middleton. 

German conductor Christian Reif directed The Hallé in a vivid and rhythmically alert performance of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.

The Ligeti Quartet’s new album of music by Anna Meredith features at their launch event at The Leadmill, Sheffield, but a performance of Ligeti’s First String Quartet steals the limelight.