Instrument: Sitar

Dans le cadre du festival Enescu de Bucarest, la sitariste Anoushka Shankar et le percussioniste Manu Delago accompagnés par l'Orchestre de Chambre de Zürich nous offrent un programme singulier où les résonances harmoniques étourdissantes du sitar mariées à celles du hang fascinent.

Scion of generations of sitar players, Nishat Khan is the perfect person to tell the "greatest love story never told" behind India's most iconic building.

Visiting orchestras often bring something special with them: here it was a newly commissioned triple concerto for classical Indian instruments. Alpesh Chauhan impresses in Stravinsky, less so in Richard Strauss.

The collaboration of Opera North and South Asian Arts is a thrilling celebration of renaissance opera and Indian classical music.

The first live performance of Philip Glass' Passages was a spellbinding fusion of modernity and tradition, an exquisite meeting of minds, music styles and instrumentation.

Five years after the composer's death, his musical collaborator David Murphy ensures that Shankar's only operatic work finally gets heard.

There was an inundation of the sound of John Tavener's Flood of Beauty at the Barbican on Sunday, with the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Martyn Brabbins.