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An eclectic programme including evocative Sámi joiks from and powerful Shostakovich performed from memory by the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.

Music by Bach, Schubert and Pärt is handled with flair and expertise by artists at the start of their careers in the Centre's beautiful new concert hall.

Vittorio Ghielmi and his ll Suonar Parlante ensemble present a resonantly melancholy and reflective programme of music mourning loss as live performance returns to Italy.

A new professional orchestra launches first full season in Sheffield.

As part of Philharmonia’s the Bittersweet Metropolis strand focusing on the music and culture of Germany in the interwar years, Esa-Pekka Salonen curated an interesting group of works designed to paint a picture of the more serious end of the music world in Berlin.

Composer-pianist, Vestards Shimkus gives a compelling rendition of his imaginative 9 etudes Dreamscapes, while his Bach-Busoni 9 Chorale Preludes offers more mixed results. 

Visiting Russian players offer sophisticated Brahms and sensitive Elgar in Istanbul.

Clemens Flick (harpsichord) and Christoph Huntgeburth (flute) gave an impressive performance as soloists, while the orchestra wasn’t able to play as well as expected.

John Malkovich’s provocative new music-theatre work reminds us all of the power of music – in the wrong hands.

A three hour Bach "meditation", with Bach mixed with Kurtág, various other modern pieces and free jazz improvisation all sounded a bit radical. But the results were extraordinary. 

Clyne, Ligeti and Pärt sit down with Bach and Scarlatti for a spot of lunch!

French organist Thierry Escaich offered a fascinating musical journey with a programme which juxtaposed the organ music of J S Bach with responses to it by Mendelssohn and Brahms, as well his own improvisations on themes by Bach.

The concert, which was part of Mostly Mozart’s “A Little Night Music” series of late-night events, was comprised of six preludes, six canons, and George Benjamin’s 2001 composition Shadowlines, six canonic preludes for the piano that were written for Aimard.

This year'sHeidelberg Bach Week is entitled "Bach +"; in a concert called "Flow my tears", Ensemble Riverberi played works by J.S. Bach and English and Italian contemporaries.

Brass chamber music may sound like an alarming oxymoron until you hear the warm sound of Onyx Brass, who brought their Tour de Brass programme to Auckland Castle as part of Durham's annual BRASS festival.

Janine Jansen's International Chamber Music Festival offered a special treat this year: scratchcard concert, where a scratchcard determined which concerts one got to see.

A world première of Gabriel Jackson's The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ proved an exciting event for those one hundred or so people who made the effort last Friday evening to attend the opening concert of the fifth Merton College Passiontide Festival.

Three “living memory” premièrs for Baroque composers at the Valletta International Baroque Festival.

On entering St George’s Bristol, we were given a sheet of paper with a biography and the names of a handful of composers – the programme hadn’t been announced beforehand, and was only revealed during the concert by John Williams himself. He introduced each piece with a little context, varying from a piece’s personal relevance, to its historical background.

The Mozartkirche, a grand Catholic church in Biberbach, provided a somewhat reverential setting for the sixth concert in the mozart@augsburg series. It was also a distinct contrast to the elaborate Small Golden Hall in which the previous evening’s concert, “Chamber Music Pearls”, was held.

The ever-eccentric Nigel Kennedy entered on stage in trainers, combat trousers, a pirate shirt with a shiny black jacket, and his staple punk hairstyle. Dressed as a rebel, his cheeky-chap persona grabbed the attention of the audience at Colston Hall for a night of Bach and Fats Waller in one.The set was different to that of most normal concerts.

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”, goes the familiar phrase, and that can be applied in life to any number of things, including music. Were the father of harmony, Johann Sebastian Bach, still alive today, he would be beyond flattered.

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

If we consider the word “festival” and its synonym “feast”, the Valletta International Baroque Festival, which started on 9 January and continues to 26 January, has proven to be a sumptuous feast, nay, a veritable banquet.The festival has brought Baroque music to a Baroque city. It is the city’s first, hopefully not the last, festival of music of the Baroque period.

The energetic Holland Baroque Society presented a lively program juxtaposing works of Johann Joseph Fux and Johann Sebastian Bach this week. Evident from the start was the group’s overarching enthusiasm and passion for this particular repertoire. The atmosphere reflected the musicians onstage, full of youth and infused with a breath of new life.

In accordance with clichés about prima donnas, Nigel Kennedy’s concert at the Musiikkitalo in Helsinki starts 15 minutes after the lights have faded away in the hall. The Nigel Kennedy Quintet enters and its leader makes a couple of jokes to break the ice.

The world’s largest gathering of early music artists and professionals, the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, marked its final concert on Sunday 2 September with a full-house performance by the Collegium Vocale Gent. Led by Philippe Herreweghe, the ensemble has been dedicated since the 1970s to the pursuit of Baroque sonorities and performance practice.

Raucous cheering and stamping accompanied Eric Whitacre’s entrance and he looked every bit the part of rock star as he charismatically took to the mic to introduce this evening’s concert. Never before, he told us, had he been to a choral concert that made him seriously consider stagediving.

Put on a good quality string trio at a London classical music venue and there's one thing you can be sure about: the average age of the audience is going to be over 60. But then the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment weren't exactly playing by the usual rules.

Back in London after a sell-out US tour, English tenor Ian Bostridge CBE, with his wonderful pianist Julius Drake, proved his extraordinary range and versatility as a singer with a programme featuring music by Tippett, Britten, Bach, Haydn and Weill. This special concert had an extra resonance, as it marked Sir John Tusa’s last day as Chairman of the Wigmore Hall Trust.

Isabelle Faust y Kristian Bezuidenhout cierran la temporada del Círculo de Bellas Artes con las sonatas para violín y clave de Johann Sebastian Bach con indiscutible maestría.

Con una técnica magnífica y un sonido muy cuidado, David Russell ofreció el recital que cerró el Festival de Guitarra de Madrid.

Mit einer Auswahl der phänomenalsten Ars moriendi-Kompositionen belegten die Ensembles erwartungsgemäß einmal mehr ihre begierig willkommene Genialität.

Mit einem wahren Piazza-und-Palazzo-Feuerwerk für Blockflöte und Orchester brannte sich diese Rundreise durch Europa und speziell Italien in die Erinnerung ein.

Con un programa que reflejaba diversas culturas, el sonido pleno y delicado de la guitarra de Sainz-Villegas envolvió el Hospital de Santiago en Úbeda.

Am Eröffnungswochenende des Gstaad Menuhin Festivals stellte sich der Schweizer Pianist, diesjähriger Artist in Residence, mit zwei Giganten der Klavierliteratur vor. Man darf gespannt sein auf die Fortsetzung.   

Caos, orden y mandolina en el Colegio Mayor Santa Cruz La Real, en el concierto de Il Giardino Armonico.

Chorwerk Ruhr zeigt einen vielschichtigen Konzertabend mit viel Stoff zum Nachgenießen.

Parrainé la Neue Bachgesellschaft de Leipzig, l'incontournable festival dirigé par Vincent Morel a connu deux premières journées intéressantes, dotées d'une belle programmation mais inégales dans la réalisation.

Dominado por un control impecable de sonoridades límpidas y búsqueda de timbres particulares, el recital en Madrid de Ana Vidović resultó ser un sugerente recorrido por el repertorio de la guitarra.

Zwei Konzerte von Brecon Baroque warfen derart inspirierend einen ersten Blick in Bachs Kosmos, dass man die Weiteren bereits sehnsüchtig erwartet.

Dans l'église Saint-Pierre de Thiré, la mezzo-soprano déploie une voix extraordinaire dans un programme qui aurait mérité davantage de préparation.

La Antártida no será nunca probablemente un lugar muy hospitalario, pero acompañado por la música de Bach se nos quedó impreso como un paraje de la mente en el que reflexionar, acompañados por esa calma que solamente esa irreal lejanía puede conceder. 

Luftig weiche, herzaufgehende Wärme und freudige Überzeugungskraft ließen Bachs Pauken- und Trompetenjubel nicht einmal vermissen.

La Compagnie La Tempête et son fondateur Simon-Pierre Bestion proposent un spectacle immersif, dans la musique de Bach et ses échos chez les compositeurs minimalistes.

Retour sur deux concerts qui témoigne encore de la renommée en Alsace des Silbermann, cette famille de facteurs d'orgue du XVIIIème siècle.

Gothique, lyrique, nuancé, orchestral … l’orgue de Radio France a décidément tout pour plaire.

Bach, Schütz, Schein, Brahms, Reger : la musique sacrée allemande en délicatesse et expressivité.

Un concert émouvant que se conclude dans une rare allégresse, teintée de spiritualité et d’intensité.