What's On

Try London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski playing Wagner, Strauss and Brahms, or Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kirill Karabits, playing an all-Russian programme.

Mark-Anthony Turnage’s latest opera Anna Nicole recently premiered at Covent Garden. We present his equally controversial debut opera Greek (a startling, yuppy-era re-telling of the Oedipus story) in a new production by Music Theatre Wales.

Stile Antico peforms in Gloucester Cathedral, taking us back to Renaissance Spain with period choral music and projections of contemporary religious art, or The Magdalena Consort performs an all-Bach concert in Tewkesbury Abbey.

Cellist Natalie Clein is joined by other star instrumentalists for a double bill of Pittville chamber concerts—Dvorak, Mozart, Elgar and Chopin.

Norway’s King of the keys, Leif Ove Andsnes plays the Town Hall. As Artist-in-Residence at Berlin Philharmonic, and with A-list appearances in Chicago, Amsterdam and Dresden this season, Andsnes’s recital will be a right-royal event.

Top percussionist Evelyn Glennie gives the world premiere of a new work by Joseph Phibbs. This concert, featuring our crack-squad of instrumentalists the Festival Academy, also includes Popcorn Superhet Receiver by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood.

BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Khatia Buniatishvili plays Pittville and Montenegro-born guitarist Milos Karadaglic plays the Parabola. Look out for their debut CDs on Sony Classical and Deutsche Grammophon.

Why not try The Swingle Singers? This eight-voice a cappella group performs everything from jazzed-up Bach to stylish revamps of Annie Lennox, Björk and The Beatles. Their beat-boxy vocal percussion has to be seen and heard to be believed.