Eclectic Anglo-Japanese programme from Anna Hashimoto

Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival is an amazing opportunity for emerging opera companies and performers, giving valuable time and attention to bold and strange new works.

The Elektrostatic Concert Series has been one of Bristol’s most reliable sources of contemporary classical music events in recent years. This year, the curators have been working with Arcomis, an arts commissioning organisation, and have successfully arranged a pair of highly ambitious concerts, each dedicated to a single instrument.

The Academy of Ancient Music poses the question what might have been in Leipzig with stunning performances of Bach and his competitors to be the new Thomaskantor. 

Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder provide an apt, if somewhat unexpected, partner to Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall. 

Leonard Slatkin returns to the Prague Symphony Orchestra with one of his own pieces, a Schubert tribute that steals the show.

As part of St Luke’s ‘Visionary Sounds’ series, Kinan Azmeh joined the chamber ensemble to play a variety of his own compositions.