Performer: Kieran Carrel

At the Barbican, Raphaël Pichon's Pygmalion celebrate their 20th birthday in style, with joyful Mozart alongside Mendelssohn, Bruckner and Schubert.

Martin G Berger’s new production of Zar und Zimmermann eases the Deutsche Oper Berlin into the summer break, with mixed results.

The Catalan conductor and his Concert des Nations bring an all-Mozart programme to the Berlin Philharmonie, with the help of the basset clarinet. 

Bombastic Beethoven from Hickox and the Glyndebourne Sinfonia is followed by a memorable and powerful performance of Tippett's A Child of Our Time.

Benedikt von Peter's new staging of Bach's St Matthew Passion premieres at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, under Alessandro De Marchi. But despite the good synergy between director and conductor and a first-rate vocal ensemble, the production falls somewhat flat.

Dans un programme qui associait la Messe en ut inachevée du maître de Salzbourg à ses successeurs romantiques Schubert, Mendelssohn et Bruckner, l'ensemble indépendant et son chef ont livré une démonstration d’intelligence sensible.