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Poulenc's elegant, witty Sinfonietta is followed by dramatic depictions of Spain in flamenco-infused ballet music by Gerhard and de Falla.

One of those performances when the sheer physical beauty of the instruments and the sounds they were making became the organic nature of the music itself.

Milos Karadaglić, one of the world's leading guitarists, entertains an enthusiastic Amsterdam audience in a programme of Bach and Spanish favourites. 

This Sunday, pianist Karim Said returned to the Southbank Centre to put Arnold Schoenberg under the microscope for a third and last time. Performing as part of the International Piano Series 2012/13 and the cataclysmic Rest is Noise festival, Said’s concerts have focused on the genesis of the Second Viennese School.

Saturday night at the Barbican Centre was anything but ordinary. Performing two works by composers John Adams and Roberto Gerhard, the Crouch End Festival Chorus (CEFC) and London Orchestra da Camera, conducted by David Temple, achieved harmonic brilliance and chilling dissonance in a single evening. The first half of the night was devoted to John Adams’ Harmonium.