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Don Quixote provides the inspiration for songs by Ravel and Ibert, the high point of a bitty programme in contrast to an early evening recital which followed the perfect trajectory.

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chief Conductor brings a Technicolour experience to an evening of Bizet, Brahms, Debussy and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall swells to the music of Stravinsky, Brahms and Beethoven as the BBC Philharmonic explores different perspectives on Classical forms. 

Works by Mahler and Stravinsky bookend this Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concert, but the world premiere shakes the dust off a century-old concerto by Feodor Akimenko.

The familiar and the fresh sit next to one another in a concert from Paris in the centenary of the composer's death. 

The young French cellist says he can't sing. But that didn't stop him producing a great cantabile performance for Dvořák's great crowd-pleaser.