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Thomas Hampson and Wolfram Rieger perform a selection of Lieder by Schubert and others during Schubert Week in Berlin.

The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra presents a superb programme executed with power and urgency to herald the return of public music-making at the Pierre Boulez Saal.

After four evenings and ten world premieres, Pierre Boulez Saal's A Festival of New Music comes to a haunting end.

The third concert of A Festival of New Music also suggests the conflicts and split personalities which may come from extended isolation. 

Daniel Barenboim, Emmanuel Pahud and select musicians continue their brief odyssey into new music with three striking and stimulating world premieres and a welcome touch of Boulez.

A whole week dedicated to Schubert Lieder at the Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, kicks off with a recital with ambitious repertoire.

A pair of A minor sonatas demonstrate the composer's evolution over his lifetime; the Wanderer Fantasy shows the pianist's mastery of phrasing.

Intimacy mixes with grandeur in Beethoven playing of rare authority in Berlin.

Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin offer a fascinating shift in approach as they tackle Schubert's last two symphonies at the Boulezsaal.

Barenboim and the Staatskapelle offer the easy-going atmosphere large-scale Schubertiad in the composer's middle symphonies at the Boulezsaal.

Relaxed, classy music-making on an intimate scale makes the best case possible for Schubert's first three symphonies at the Pierre Boulez Saal