Maria Włoszczowska plays Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

This week, Maria Włoszczowska tours Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, play/directing the orchestra in three concerts throughout England’s north. The programme also includes the Cavatina from Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 130 and Bartók’s Divertimento. Next month in Gateshead, Maria joins Dinis Sousa in recital for a programme celebrating the Mendelssohns and the…Read more ›

Out now: Viviane Hagner releases Takemitsu’s Spectral Canticle

In Spring 2022, Viviane Hagner joined the BBC Philharmonic, conductor Christian Karlsen and guitarist Jacob Kellermann to record Tōru Takemitsu’s Spectral Canticle. Today, BIS releases the album which includes three other works by Takemitsu, namely To the Edge of Dream, Vers, l’arc-en-ciel, Palma and Twill by Twilight. Stay tuned for its UK release next month! Find out more here.

Benjamin Grosvenor: European Recital tour

Tonight Benjamin makes his recital debut at Salle de Chambre, Luxembourg Philharmonie playing a wonderfully varied programme of Bach-Busoni, Schumann, Ravel and Prokofiev. He returns to the Wigmore Hall on Sunday for the same programme before three further recitals next week – where he exchanges Schumann’s Fantasie for Kreisleriana – as featured on his latest Decca album…Read more ›

Valo Quartet makes UK debut

This week, the Valo Quartet makes its UK debut at Forde Abbey in Somerset and Upper Cranbourne Farm in Winchester, with a programme of Haydn’s Op. 64 No.2, Britten’s Quartet No.1 and Beethoven’s The Harp. Valo – ‘light’ in Finnish – brings together four musicians (originally from Poland, the UK and Finland) who have often…Read more ›

The Tallis Scholars begin Birthday Celebrations

Having returned from a 3 week tour of the USA performing their 50th Birthday programme, The Tallis Scholars are now readying themselves for the UK and Europe leg of their Birthday celebrations. Find out more here.

Laura van der Heijden in Scotland

Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday (27 – 29 April), Laura van der Heijden is in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Under the baton of Mark Wigglesworth, she performs Shostakovich’s Second Cello Concerto. Laura returns to Scotland in May to join the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth. First, Laura gives the world premiere of…Read more ›

Grant Llewellyn returns to North Carolina

This week, Music Director Laureate Grant Llewellyn brings a flavour of France to North Carolina. Llewellyn conducts an all-French programme including Debussy/Pépin: Hommage à Rameau from Images, Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1, featuring Sterling Elliott, and Bizet’s Roma. Find out more here.

Viviane Hagner in Girona

This Sunday 23 April, Viviane Hagner joins the Orchestra Sinfonia Varsovia in Girona, where they make their first stop of their Spanish tour. Under the baton of Aleksandar Marković, who is stepping in for an indisposed Tatsuya Shimono, Hagner performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major at the Auditori de Girona. The evening also includes…Read more ›

JBM Artists at the 2023 BBC Proms

Today the BBC announces its annual summer celebration of music at the Royal Albert Hall and other major venues across the UK. JBM are proud to have artists perform in three exciting concerts, with Rachmaninoff featuring heavily in the programmes for the composer’s 150th anniversary year: Sunday 16 July, 11am Benjamin Grosvenor performs a solo…Read more ›