Performer: Iveta Apkalna

The Finnish conductor drove the orchestra as expertly as a racing champion in Strauss, Bartók and Salonen's own Sinfonia concertante for Organ and Orchestra.

For the end of the season, Berlin's Konzerthaus unleashes the fury of the elements with a concert featuring Bernd Richard Deutsch's Organ Concerto Okeanos, together with works by Sibelius and Shostakovich. 

A celebration of young Latvian musicians and established Latvian artists performing a huge variety of works from Vivaldi to Stevie Wonder: how about that for something completely different?

An intriguing combination of three contemporary Baltic composers matched against Bach, delivered with consummate musicianship by Kremerata Baltica.

Thomas Hengelbrock and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra open Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie concert-hall with a traversal of music through the ages, from a Renaissance motet to Wolfgang Rihm's latest work.