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The London Sinfonietta blends premieres and poetry in a confusing evening at the Southbank Centre. 

The concert paired strong new works by Joan La Barbara, Nicole Lizée and Paola Prestini with compositions by Luciano Berio and George Crumb for a satisfying evening of adventurous works for voice.

Marianne Crebassa and Esa-Pekka Salonen take the audience on a dazzling musical journey from Rome to Asia.

Vasily Petrenko conducts a darkly coloured Alpensinfonie in Liverpool, alongside music by Tchaikovsky and Canteloube

Mariss Jansons' festive, but poignant, farewell concert with the Royal Concergebouw Orchestra. Thomas Hampson contrasted folksongs by Mahler with Berio and Copland. Afterwards, while Jansons conducted Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.

Ensemble ACJW performed works by Berio, Reich, and Bartók with conductor David Robertson and soprano Dawn Upshaw at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall. This attractively programmed concert featured an admirable first half, though the Bartók left something to be desired.

Unusually for a classical concert, the Queen's Hall was decked out with cabaret tables. Seated at the front I had a unique perspective on audio elements such as blend and separation of instruments and such visual elements as musicians' cues (varying from direct eye contact to trusting peripheral vision) and the normally overlooked feature of footwork.Herbert Howells 1921 Rhapsodic Quintet Op.

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s concerts in St Andrews are usually full-house events in the University’s Younger Hall, with recent repertoire covering Mozart piano concertos and Haydn symphonies at some length. This evening’s programme promised something quite different: four works celebrating ‘words and music’, as part of the StAnza poetry festival.

Pour le plus grand bonheur du public, l'Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranée se réunit de nouveau au Grand Théâtre de Provence après une session 2020 complètement à distance.

À Saint-Denis, le Mahler Chamber Orchestra propose des miniatures convaincantes de Mahler ou Berio. Clou du spectacle, une Eva Zaïcik royale, qui illumine tout autant les Kindertotenlieder que les Folksongs.