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Present what could be considered challenging work unapologetically, the Manchester Collective makes friends on London's Southbank. 

The Cleveland Orchestra and their newly promoted Assistant Conductor Vinay Paraneswaran shed light on the musical pattern-making of the minimalists. And Bach.

Freshness, enthusiasm and excellent curation made for an entertaining evening courtesy of Hugo Ticciati and O/Modernt. 

An evening of exceptional originality and daring in Snape Maltings – not to mention glorious music – got the Aldeburgh Festival off to a striking start for the 2016 season.

The Britten Sinfonia's tribute to Mozart fell somewhat flat, with only hauntingly beautiful Kurtág able to somewhat redeem passionless performances of Adams and Tavener.

The loosely-affiliated Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, now in its ninth season at the museum, illustrates all that is good about music-making among friends – and even family members. Two sets of siblings and numerous old friends were on stage for a concert of music inspired by the completion of the museum’s new wing of American art.

There are some classical concerts that really portray the absolute essence of what music is all about. If we’re lucky we experience one of these a year, but they’re very hard to come by because these experiences require something very specific.

Un bien beau concert en ouverture du Festival de la Bâtie : rien de moins que du John Adams par John Adams. En prime, son concerto, servi par une des interprètes qui connaissent le mieux ce répertoire, nous a permis de goûter aux délices des mélopées orientalistes de Scheherazade.2 ! Un must !