Live, Video: Concerts

Making his debut with the RSNO, Bassem Akiki conducts the UK premiere of Auerbach's Violin Concerto no. 1, played by its dedicatee, Philippe Quint.

At the DiMenna Center, Ekmeles summon the spirit of Halloween as a bridge between the realms of the living and the dead

David Brophy conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in works by Richter, Adams and Glass. Mari Samuelsen leads and directs in Richter’s Recomposed: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons.

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.

Brahms’ two monumental piano concertos conducted by Tarmo Peltokoski take centre stage in a packed De Doelen Hall, Rotterdam. 

The Russian-Austrian maestro and the Berliners triumph in an intensely focused, technically brilliant program featuring two late-Romantic, highly personal masterpieces.

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

John Wilson brings energy, colour and drama to his Russian-dominated Dublin programme, while Emanuil Ivanov dazzles technically but leaves Tchaikovsky’s lyricism wanting.

In Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, Schnittke’s Viola Concerto is bookended by elegiac Bach and memorable Shostakovich, conducted by Patrick Hahn.