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Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto comes alive as Stephen Hough joins Domingo Hindoyan and the RLPO in an explosive performance of this dramatic work. 

Terfel’s charismatic account of Schubert songs orchestrated by a variety of composers, Sofia Gubaidulina’s meditation on his Impromtu and the composer’s own longest symphony make a varied and rewarding evening at The Glasshouse, Gateshead.  

Martyn Brabbins conducts MacMillan’s Confession of Isobel Gowdie, BBCSSO founder Ian Whyte’s forgotten Violin Concerto with Stephanie Gonley, and a memorable Rachmaninov 2.

The pianist concluded her US tour performing a formidable program of Prokofiev, Debussy and Tchaikovsky.

The LPO tackled California wildfires and star-crossed lovers in a theatrical evening at the Royal Festival Hall.

In ‘The Eloquent Oboe’, Tekla Cunningham and colleagues draw out the quiet drama in solo Bach cantatas – where the oboe’s sigh becomes the soul’s own speech.

Is there a difference between music composed for films and music used in films? Can the former have a life beyond film? The Piatti Quartet looks for answers.

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Colin Currie fizz with energy in Duddell, Grime and Steve Reich.

From Bach to the American Minimalists (and some of their friends and acquaintances) on Shani Diluka’s journey in search of transcendence.