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Shibe’s spellbinding open-air recital proves that some musical experiences cannot be separated from the places in which they unfold.

Any performance of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony is an event, but this mighty Philharmonia account at the Royal Festival Hall proves extra special. 

Harry Christophers and The Sixteen refresh their choral pilgrimage with works old and new, that show innovative programming at its imaginative best. 

With the works of four female composers as a starting point, the Stegreif Orchester close Berlin's Musikfest with their latest project, a symphony of change – both musical and political. 

Singer Daisy Press performs a set of songs by the German abbess and composer, accompanying herself on a range of tuned bowls, harmonium, chimes and gong. 

VOCES8 perform choral music spanning 800 years, including a BBC commission from Alexia Sloane, with great energy, articulation and virtuosity in an impressive Proms debut at Cadogan Hall.

The “Festival Tour” and its three-venue concerts of the Davos Festival programme included almost as many visual and outdoor delights as it did musical treats. 

Bracing and emotionally direct performances from the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Nicole Car, in a carefully-planned programme.

From madrigals to modern music Chanticleer impressed with sumptuous singing in all the genres, in their National Concert Hall recital in Dublin.

In 1993, by some strange musical alchemy, a creative partnership was born that has gone on to bear some remarkable fruit. On Officium, stylish jazz and classical label ECM brought together The Hilliard Ensemble – a vocal quartet known for the precision with which it had tackled and animated austere soundworlds from Perotin to Pärt – and Norwegian jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek.

It has been nearly twenty years since the Hilliard Ensemble and Jan Garbarek released their first recording, Officium, in which the austere harmonies of medieval sacred music sung by the male voice quartet were augmented by Garbarek’s beautiful, freewheeling saxophone melodies.

Theatre of Voices y el Cuarteto de Cuerda de la Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio Danesa con Paul Hillier en la dirección ofrecieron un introspectivo concierto para celebrar al compositor Arvo Pärt.

Tout le long d'un programme imaginé avec la complicité de la compositrice Diana Soh, le quatuor vocal montre un goût appréciable pour la spatialisation, transportant le public à défaut de toujours le convaincre.

La jeune musicienne russe a réservé au public de la Chapelle protestante un récital original et de haute tenue, associant aux suites de Bach des pièces modernes dans un jeu toujours convaincant.

Im Sommer hatte Kent Nagano mit dem DSO Berlin Mahlers Sechste Symphonie aufgeführt, ein gutes halbes Jahr später glänzte er mit Mahlers Siebenter.

Raphaël Pichon et son chœur voyagent dans 800 ans d'histoire de la musique avec une aisance et une justesse admirables.

Au Voces8 Centre, la célèbre soprano entraîne son auditoire dans un voyage de toute beauté, allant de la poésie mystique médiévale aux chants de l’holocauste.

Le concert décentralisé du Festival d’Ambronay fait découvrir d’éternelles « Voies de la Beauté », entre le Moyen Âge d’Hildegard et les rituels chamaniques des Indiens navajos