Instrument: Trumpet

The Czech Philharmonic and soloist Tamás Pálfalvi take wing in a smart modern music program expertly crafted by composer and conductor Péter Eötvös.

The Academy of Ancient Music played with such stylistic elegance, charm and sheer physical beauty that it was like hearing I Musici and Virtuosi di Roma for the first time in this repertoire in the 1950s.

The expanded forces of the ACO take on two major nineteenth-century symphonic works by Dvorak and Brahms, prefaced by world and Australian premieres of pieces by Andrew Ford and Andrew Norman

Joana Carneiro conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a lively Mendelssohn concerto and elegant Mahler Fifth.

It was an altogether riotous and highly enjoyable performance of a wacky work, one long overdue to be heard in this country.

Yuja Wang embodies the flash, brilliance and wry, irreverent humor of Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto.

Philip Cobb’s bluesy inflections turned the dear old Barbican Hall into the coolest nightspot in the capital; they might as well have lowered the lights and served cocktails.