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Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver were in tune with each other in every way in this fascinating and entertaining programme inspired by Marcel Proust.

Still only in its second year, the London Piano Festival has already established itself as a major player in the capital’s music scene.

Tout ce que la musique russe peut évoquer de force et de fermeté, de passion sourde et d’intensité, Danny Driver l’a livré mercredi soir à la Salle Bourgie. Dans le cadre de la série « Complètement piano » de la Fondation Arte Musica, durant laquelle les compositeurs russes sont mis à l’honneur, le pianiste proposait un récital autour de Bach, Schumann, Balakirev, Rachmaninov et Prokofiev.

Danny Driver thrills in an imaginatively conceived and wonderfully executed programme of Ligeti and Debussy. 

The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland's Symphony Orchestra is touring to China, a momentous event for our young musicians. The Bon Voyage concert presented their touring programme to a home crowd before setting off.

Charles Dutoit and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra journey on a Roman holiday, taking in the pines, fountains and festivals of the Eternal City. 

There is always something special when a piece is performed in the presence of a composer, and even more so when the composer conducts a famous and popular work. James MacMillan conducted the BBCSSO in The Confession of Isobel Gowdie to help celebrate Commonwealth Day in Glasgow. 

This Southbank Centre concert of five of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's symphonies, alongside his Concerto in E flat for Harpsichord and Fortepiano showed just how much of a revolutionary this oft-overlooked composer was. The OAE were conducted by Rebecca Miller.

Have you ever been in a chorus of 5,000 people singing the words of an Indian takeaway menu to the tune of Nessun Dorma? Well, courtesy of Kit and the Widow, Susan Bullock and the BBC Comedy Prom, I now have. Of course, the delight of the Proms audience is that not only did everyone know the tune, but a large majority were able to sing it quite competently: it really sounded more than decent.