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Eldar Nebolsin, Corey Cerovsek and Gary Hoffman did not completely answer whether Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio is chamber music that wants to be a ballet score or vice versa, but the intoxicating beauty of their playing banished all doubts of whether the answer mattered. 

Six concerts of Suffolk’s finest home-grown produce garnished with side orders of Mozart, Copland and Elgar.

Works by Haydn, Johann Strauss (as reconceived by Alban Berg) and Britten filled out this concert in the midst of the fourth season of splendid chamber concerts featuring top-notch playing by local and guest musicians.

The Britten Oboe Quartet gave highly engaging and communicative performances of an imaginative and intelligent programme, with cerebral serialism from Elisabeth Lutyens combined with early Elgar, Britten and sublime Mozart to finish.

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is celebrating its 25th anniversary this season, and as it does so it is marking the anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth. BCMG is touring a programme of Britten’s early compositions, the second stop of which was at Turner Sims in Southampton.John Woolrich, BCMG Artist-in-Association, was introduced as a “master programmer” by the Turner Sims representative.

How do you get more people interested in classical music? It’s a difficult question, but I’d never have guessed it was difficult enough to give to Sherlock Holmes.

The husband and wife team of acclaimed concert violinist Lisa Batiashvili and solo oboist François Leleux forms the backbone of this as-yet-unnamed chamber group, which performs as often as busy individual schedules permit. For some the main draw of an ensemble of like this might be hearing the music buffeted around by strong personalities.

La jeune star du violoncelle britannique, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, a fait des débuts mitigés avec l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. À la baguette, Santtu-Matias Rouvali laisse une impression comparable.

Concert « diVin » au Conservatoire de Mulhouse, où les musiciens de l'Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse ont enchanté le public, dans un programme d'œuvres des XXe et XXIe siècles.