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Former music director Ludovic Morlot steps in to open the currently leaderless orchestra's new season with echoes of their shared past and a world premiere.

Kissin’s Cleveland recital featured works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven – and predictably, a hearty helping of Chopin.

The concert also featured the world premiere of Matthias Pintscher's idyll and a Strauss favorite, Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks.

One hundred years after the première performance of Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring, perhaps one of the most controversial and infamous stage premières of all time, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Barbican Centre’s Total Immersion collaboration provided an all-round look at every aspect of the music, choreography and the première itself through a variety of events on Sunday, culminating

If Benjamin Grosvenor were a wine, his tasting notes might read something like: “an outstanding early vintage, this is already a fine, well-balanced red, with subtlety of flavour. Can be quaffed now though should mature exceedingly well.

As part of Birmingham’s International Concert Season, there’s a series of lunchtime performances from rising stars, entitled “Bright Futures”.

At this Mozart Saal recital the latest addition to the bumf which routinely overfills concert programmes was a flyer for an autumn sale at Austria’s main Steinway dealership, drawing one’s attention a fraction more than usual to the unremarkable fact that like the overwhelming majority of his colleagues, Ingolf Wunder is a Steinway artist.

Young British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has been much in the news lately: the recipient of two Gramophone Awards (Young Artist of the Year and Instrumental Award for his debut disc), and winner of the Critics’ Award at the 2012 Classic Brits. And he’s in great demand as a performer, if his diary is anything to go by.