Performer: Jonathan Nott

Marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2, Jonathan Nott conducts Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem in his final season as Music Director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.

Fragmentation to ritual: this was no Rite of Spring of two halves but a single, vast architectural crescendo.

Installation art sounds a dissonant note with the sublime harmony of Saint François d’Assise in Adel Abdessemed's creation at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. 

The English conductor talks about his bond with the storied Swiss orchestra he has helmed since 2017, and how they plan to recreate the danger of Stravinsky’s famous ballet.

Born in the small town of La Unión, the young Colombian is the newly appointed assistant conductor at Orchestre de la Suisse Romande – and is going places at speed.