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The Scottish Chamber Orchestra directed by Hugo Ticciati premiere Karine Polwart and Pippa Murphy’s Seek the Light, performed as a thread with contemporary string works. 

Heartbeat’s Fidelio is a dramatic reworking in every sense of the term. It’s bold and unflinching, borrowing from Beethoven to tell tales too horrible to tell. 

A premiere and a rarity cap New York Philharmonic’s mini-festival “Authentic Selves: The Beauty Within” created in partnership with Artist-in-Residence, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. 

Clarity of articulation and ensemble underlined gripping performances in a programme that could have been a one-horse race. 

Recently recovered from emergency brain surgery, the popular conductor stepped back onto the podium with the New York Philharmonic this weekend in performances that ranged from the skilled to the sublime.

After 572 dark days, there was music on the stage of Carnegie Hall. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in a jubilant program, culminating in a blistering Beethoven’s Fifth.

At the Proms the splendour of Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony provides a contrast to but also a parallel with Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto in a welcome visit by The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder with Benjamin Grosvenor.