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WASO's concert of contemporary music, conducted by compatriot Otto Tausk, and featuring soprano Sara Macliver, proves riveting in its unfamiliarity. 

A piano duo sets Julius Eastman and Steve Martland as celebration, demonstration, protest march, and parade on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. 

Composer David Lang joined the ensemble in Oberlin for an invigorating night of fresh ideas played with a spirit of adventure.

As the December nights darken and the winter's first snowflakes fall from the sky, the Scottish Ensemble's candlelight concerts provice a welcome space for reflection at this busy time of year.

In “Far from Home” reed quintet Calefax and the Nederlands Kamerkoor performed music around the theme of loneliness, loss and exile.

What is it about percussion concerts? They always seem to have a different feeling to other shows, a palpable sense of energy, curiosity and excitement.

Hot on the heels of the Urban Classic Prom came this, the BBC 6 Music Prom. Yet another first in this year’s Proms saw BBC Radios 3 and 6 Music bring together the likes of Cerys Matthews, Laura Marling, Xenakis, The Stranglers, Varèse and the London Sinfonietta, and produce a programme comprising styles that might loosely be described as “alternative”, from the fringes of pop to punk rock via mode

Est-ce pour rendre justice à sa formation au Royal College of Music de Londres, que la jeune suédoise a privilégié pour ce programme reposant tout particulièrement entre ses mains une trop rare thématique britannique ? Ce choix d’œuvres, reconnues de toutes parts mais pas toujours jouées en France, témoigne en tout cas d’un goût certain.