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Joanna MacGregor and the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra bring their 100th season to a triumphant conclusion at the Brighton Dome. 

Ponomarchuk and the LPO raise the spirits in Felix Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony after an underwhelming first half at the Brighton Dome. 

An African reimagining of The Rite of Spring, it combines solos that fizz with electric currents and ends with an unforgettable, arresting experience. 

Madaras and the LPO rise above the routine in Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, with an engaging performance of the Rococo Variations from Zlatomir Fung.

Delicacy and effortlessly flowing melodies in Mendelssohn and Schubert, with dazzling extremes and showmanship in Liszt at the Brighton Festival.

Energetic playing, clarity and precision from Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques in three dramatic pieces by Monteverdi, but some weighty singing obscures the detail. 

A packed recital given by mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly at Brighton Festival.   

The classy Elias String Quartet brighten the morning with enjoyable Haydn and Mendelssohn, but Britten doesn't sit quite right. 

Dame Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg delight with an intimate and varied programme on the theme “Heroines of the Golden Age” at Brighton Early Music Festival. 

Inspired by the work of Hieronymus Bosch, Claire Cunningham holds nothing back in baring her soul and her body, in this solo full of honesty and emotion.

The Britten Oboe Quartet gave highly engaging and communicative performances of an imaginative and intelligent programme, with cerebral serialism from Elisabeth Lutyens combined with early Elgar, Britten and sublime Mozart to finish.

Intelligent and arresting Dvořák, warm and confident Humperdinck from Rory Macdonald's debut with the LPO, marred only by disappointing Chopin.  

Les SlovaKs dance collective close Brighton Festival, expertly delivering riotous improvisation with humour and humility, their fantastic performance deserves every moment of the standing ovation it received.

A world première at Brighton Festival: Based on Virginia Woolf's Lappin and Lapinova, new dance theatre work Like Rabbits is a simple, comic and achingly sad tale of falling out of love.

Brighton Festival hosts the UK premiere of Talk to the Demon, a work full of uncomfortable questions, powerful performances and breathtaking dancing. Choreographed on Ultima Vez by Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus.

Saffy Setohy's duet, Unexpected Animal, and film, Kindling, choreographed for a mother and son offer a glimpse of a tender relationship, but could do with a few teenage kicks.

Choreographer and composer duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion perform a pair of beautifully bizarre duets involving cows, chaos and Cage. At The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton.

After the overture, whose two movements, fast and slow, were adequately dispatched by a suitably small orchestra, the audience mistook the arrival of an orchestral horn player as that of the soloist himself, and burst into applause, which turned to laughter as the mistake became obvious.