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Yehudi Menuhin’s former pupils, Nicola Benedetti and Alexander Sitkovetsky celebrate his musical legacy with the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra with Rising Stars side-by-side. 

Ton Koopman’s Elbphilharmonie debut brings warmth, wit and stylistic brilliance to Bach’s festive cantatas, in a radiant Early Music season finale that balances ceremonial splendour with vivid, human-scale musicianship.

Thomas Søndergård conducts thrilling Shostakovich to close to the RSNO Season: lively Festive Overture, introspective Second Cello Concerto  with Daniel Müller-Schott, and an epic Eleventh Symphony.

A concert at 07:30 am? In a cemetery chapel? It must be the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival!

The virtuoso violinist glows in Brahms’ Violin Concerto and the Met musicians display their virtuosity and versatility in the composer’s complex final symphony. 

Each work in Elisabeth Brauß’ Wigmore Hall formed some sort of farewell, from a Bach curiosity to Prokofiev's percussive Seventh Sonata. 

A month early, perhaps, but Václav Luks conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus in Bach's joyful celebration of the Christmas story.