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The BBC's annual classical jamboree is launched in fine style with a premiere and a timely revival, conducted by Sakari Oramo. 

Errollyn Wallen's new piece is a treat, while the complete Appalachian Spring reveals new depths to Copland's score.

In the Baroque splendour of a church fondly-known as Queen Anne’s Footstool, the band entertains an appreciative audience to nine of the finest things they currently have on offer.

From Copland and Judith Weir to late Beethoven, a double bill of delights in Sheffield.

Painting pictures in music can often be stimulating. In a programme inspired by the sea and by pictorial art, Elim Chan, Catriona Morison and the BBC NOW reveal the underlying colour. 

A joyful evening of Franco-Brazilian dance music with Royal Northern Sinfonia and Jess Gillam as part of Sage Gateshead's New Year New Music 2019 festival.

Deft programming, fine arrangements and playing from Mr McFall's Chamber and guest soprano Susan Hamilton.

It’s not every evening that you hear a composition played on two serrated Nigerian Fanta bottles. Nor is it every evening that you hear pieces by Schumann and David Byrne (formerly of Talking Heads) in the same concert. Nor, for that matter, do cellists often sing. As this concert’s title suggested, ‘Uncharted’ at Kings Place was very much a trip into the unknown.