Live, Video: Kritiken zu klassischen Konzerten, Opern, Ballett und Tanz finden | Four pieces for clarinet and piano, Op.5

Crisp and elegant cello and piano playing is more successful in French and early repertoire than in Brahms.

Erich Korngold's luscious String Sextet provides the musical highlight of Erkki-Sven Tüür's Pärnu programme. 

Experiments in music and ideas brought together by the London Sinfonietta and guests at a special concert all about space and time.

It seemed at times that Dame Mitsuko Uchida and clarinetist Jörg Widmann have been collaborating for decades.

Mezzo-soprano and new music specialist, Katharina Rikus shuffled onto an elevated stage behind the ensemble in Pierrot make-up and costume to perform Schoenberg's masterpiece.

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is celebrating its 25th anniversary this season, and as it does so it is marking the anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth. BCMG is touring a programme of Britten’s early compositions, the second stop of which was at Turner Sims in Southampton.John Woolrich, BCMG Artist-in-Association, was introduced as a “master programmer” by the Turner Sims representative.

The works of Anton Webern – famously described by Stravinksy as “dazzling diamonds” – have been “unwrapped” as part of The Rest is Noise festival this month. This was a timely project, as the output of this Second Viennese School composer has often been misrepresented due to its considerable (and problematic) impact on 20th- and 21st-century music.

Leif Ove Andsnes founded the Risør Festival only nine years ago, but it's already an important part of the European calendar. Risør is unique because it's a musicians' festival. Everyone gets together in this small Norwegian town, no matter how famous they are. This atmosphere's great for chamber music, so the Wigmore Hall is an ideal second home for Risør in London.