Performer: Lawrence Power

Alessio Bax's inaugural London Festival of Chamber Music sets off with a spring in its step.

After an indifferent start, the Philharmonia finally come to life in the last movement of Sibelius’ First Symphony. Lawrence Power shows his viola class.

Andrew Manze and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra provide Northern Light from two Swedish composers, but sinister darkness from two Scots.

John Storgårds, the BBC Philharmonic and Lawrence Power deliver soothing waves of sound in Miller's I cannot love without trembling and an intense, though occasionally overwhelming, performance of Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony.

When is a work actually finished ? Only when composer, publisher, editors and performers agree that it is... Sakari Oramo conducts the London premiere of Knussen's Cleveland Pictures. 

The Canadian composer talks about her working method, her interest in vocality, her guitar concerto for Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort, and whether she’s still trying to make audiences cry.

The British viola player on why there's so much more to Brahms than just his great Romantic voice.