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Ensemble 360 offer a game of two halves at the Sheffield Crucible Playhouse, pairing works by Pavel Haas and Leoš Janáček. 

A centenary celebration of György Ligeti from Ensemble 360 in a concert of vibrant 20th-century music from Eastern Europe. 

Mozart and 1784 is the basis for this latest OAE venture, an engaging programme that highlights the flawless technique of 18th-century keyboard specialist Kristian Bezuidenhout.

One of the fathers of the wind quintet, a sextet for a unique instrumental line-up and Beethoven as we rarely hear him: an evening of surprises in Sheffield.

San Francisco’s Splinter Reeds, echoing the traditional wind quintet but eschews the non-reed instruments, makes its second ever New York City appearance, part of the Earle Brown Foundation’s Time:Spans Festival.  

The program, set long before Crumb’s death in February, following an implicit logic from Debussy to Stravinsky through Charles Ives and ending in Crumb’s somber lament, Ancient Voices of Children. 

The RSNO welcomes the audience back in a light and joyful French programme conducted by Thomas Søndergård with its own oboist Adrian Wilson as soloist in L'Horloge de flore.

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra explores student works from Bernstein’s punchy Clarinet Sonata, Barber’s String Quartet, featuring his greatest hit, and Coleridge-Taylor’s sunny Nonet. 

An all-Bach concert at Milton Court Concert Hall by the Academy of Ancient Music with Masato Suzuki, Benjamin Appl and Leo Duarte.

Under its new Chief Conductor Paavo Järvi, Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra features a riveting programme of works by Tchaikovsky and Copland with clarinettist Martin Fröst as soloist.