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Hugo Ticciati and Víkingur Ólafsson explore notions of time, but a lesson in mindful performance comes from the gravity-defying Sanddorn Balance act.  

Phoenix Dance Theatre collides with the headlines with their mixed programme at Sadler's Wells.

It takes artistic invention and considerable courage to design a concert programme solely around tragic topics; yet the connecting link between the various items on the last subscription concert by the Australian Chamber Orchestra was – directly or indirectly – death and great composers’ reaction to it.

Superstar husband-and-wife team, renowned violinist Vadim Repin and "tsarina of the dance" Svetlana Zakharova, go on a date and take us with them. The music fared much better than the ballet.

Paavo Järvi conducted the Estonian Festival Orchestra that he founded in select works by Northern composers.

The Scottish Ensemble is joined by I Fagiolini in a Winter Chorale linking ancient and modern music for Advent and Christmas. 

What is it about Arvo Pärt’s ‘Angel Music’ that appeals to the dying? Vanishing Point’s theatre and Scottish Ensemble’s playing combine to produce a thoughtful and poignant performance.  

Is there anything Tiler Peck can’t do? After her just completed triumph in Swan Lake we’re obliged to say no.

Four years ago, the ACO mounted The Reef. Mountain is clearly its successor: another film project involving scenes of nature peopled by extreme-sports enthusiasts, screened while an eclectic soundtrack is played live by the orchestra.

BalletNOW returns to the Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center in Los Angeles. The production features dancers from six different major ballet companies, but fails to impress.

Stravinsky and Arvo Pärt’s modernism trumps Rachmaninov’s romanticism with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. 

CSO concertmaster Robert Chen took the spotlight in two 20th-century works with Neeme Järvi conducting; anchoring the program was Beethoven’s Pastoral.

A world premiere that gives yet more credence to the burgeoning reputation of Crystal Pite for creating absorbing mass movement of considerable beauty 

The storm prevailed under Stefan Solyom – perhaps inevitable with Shostakovich – but quieter moments in the Strauss were beautifully handled by Lise Davidsen.

Alina Ibragimova with the Scottish Ensemble perform exuberant early teenage Mendelssohn, deeply spiritual Pärt and Vasks, politically lethal Hartmann and utterly thrilling Bach.

Bringing her programme of Baroque arias to London, Joyce DiDonato was on a mission to discover how we find peace.

Richard Tognetti (violin) and Polina Leschenko (piano) display an intensely concentrated, yet good-humoured rapport in Sydney. 

The Turku Philharmonic showcases some of the finest work from 20th-century Slavic composers.  

Intricate hip-hop, sinuous African, lyrical ballet and glorious gospel held together with powerful contemporary technique: you are hit by huge waves of happiness and end the show smiling.

...it was the Bach pieces that were the undoubted highlights, particularly the radiant contribution of Sara Macliver.

The Sixteen, augmented by alumni of Genesis Sixteen, proved to be the perfect instrument for Pärt, but lacked personality in Bach.

Sensational playing from the Philharmonia ended a superb season at the Royal Festival Hall, and allowed a brief escape from the troubles of our times.

A bird's-eye view of Gustavo Dudamel's opening concert in the LA Phil's Mozart-Pärt cycle.

The Estonian Music Days end with a recital of choral music that often proved challenging, but not in a good way. 

Great musicality from Royal Northern Sinfonia in deceptively simple Pärt and a fearsomely demanding piece by John Tavener.

A magical, brilliantly conceived programme of Byrd, Tallis and Arvo Pärt

A high-spirited divertissement from the New York City Ballet.

The Royal Ballet premieres Christopher Wheeldon's Strapless, and performs two other ballets by the choreographer for the first time.

Substituting for Riccardo Muti, Gennady Rozhdestvensky lead the CSO in a program of diverse works for string orchestra along with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, featuring the CSO's principal clarinetist.

Clyne, Ligeti and Pärt sit down with Bach and Scarlatti for a spot of lunch!

Mats Ek pours his heart and soul in to the most ungainly gestures, and his last programme in Paris is a fitted farewell.

The Scottish Ensemble's seasonal concert by candlelight looks at J.S. Bach and those inspired by his music.  

The Manchester Camerata directed by Giovanni Guzzo gave moving, entertaining and expressive pieces by Pärt, Mozart, Piazzolla and Britten with Guzzo and pianist Gabriela Montero as soloists.

McFall's Chamber was full of surprises exploring 20th century music from the Baltic. The Finns' love affair with the Tango contrasted with passionate brooding Baltic landscapes – and there was a saw.

With a programme inspired by neuroscience and fairytale, the Royal Ballet shows that one is not born, but rather, becomes a woman.

The bells of Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov and Pärt resound and reverberate in The Main Hall of the Concertgebouw.

Flags, balloons and musical revelry bring the BBC Proms season to a close. 

A monument to the first two years of a new creative friendship, exhibiting Double Grey (2014), Birkenau (2015), and Drei Hirtenkinder aus Fátima (2014) [in situ].

Piano duo Antoine Françoise and Robin Green perform a challenging, innovative and entertaining lunchtime recital.

A Child Of Our Time brought this year's Auckland Arts Festival to a magnificent finish with its message as universal as it was when first composed. 

In a diverse programme consisting of Haydn and Pärt, Stephen Layton impressed with his choir Polyphony, while the Britten Sinfonia performed a fine rendition of Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony. 

Ray Chen and Julien Quentin perform a scintilating Prokofiev and a delightful Stravinsky in this largely Russian programme. 

Cleveland Orchestra Miami principal conductor Giancarlo Guerrero led a moving reading of Pärt's Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten and a blazing John Adams Harmonielehre.

In a celestial choir-off, one could imagine the Tallis Scholars giving the Seraphims and Cherubims a run for their money.

National Youth Choir of Scotland Chamber Choir and Lammermuir Festival Players delight in an imaginative programme of French and Estonian sacred music.

Dennis Russell Davies and the Basel Symphony orchestra, in their tour of the UK, have bravely chosen to take with them a generous selection of minimalist works by some of the leading composers in this genre, a brilliant programme of music by Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt and John Adams at Cadogan Hall.

Employing khoomei, a style of singing that remains “a mystery to Western science”, each of the four performers was capable of producing up to four notes at once.

Anoushka Shankar and the RSNO under Kristjan Järvi delight with complementary takes on 'the East' – Arvo Pärt and Ravi Shankar at Edinburgh's Usher Hall.

Evan Mitchell reviews Voices of Change in a performance featuring works by Iturbide, Martino, Pärt, Turina, and Fung at City Performance Hall in Dallas.

Carla Escoda reviews Pacific Northwest Ballet's mixed bill featuring the world première of Memory Glow by Alejandro Cerrudo, and revivals of Molissa Fenley's iconoclastic solo to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, State of Darkness, Susan Marshall's aerial ballet Kiss, and Susan Stroman's TAKE FIVE...More or Less, set to Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond.