Instrument: Ensemble

How many of Albéric Magnard's 22 works do you know? Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and the Orsino Ensemble perform his Quintet in D minor to Wigmore Hall and it becomes the sixth star of the evening.

*****

From Poles to Rocks: superb musicianship from the ACO

David Karlin, 29 Oct

The Australian Chamber Orchestra brings music from Indie rock stars and the Polish composers who inspired them, with superb contributions from Guildhall students.

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Death is the star in a biting Kaiser von Atlantis at the Barbican

David Karlin, 23 Jan

Ullmann's one act opera, written in the concentration camp at Terezin, receives a powerful performance from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

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An Arvo Pärt premiere stops time in a 2,000-year-old temple

Kurt Gottschalk, 31 Oct

O Holy Father Nicholas receives its moving premiere in the The Temple of Dendur gallery in New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

*****

Cecilia Bartoli delivers in Italian Baroque at the Lucerne Festival

Laura Servidei, 22 Aug

Les Musiciens du Prince confirm their status as one of the most interesting Baroque ensembles in a concert led by Gianluca Capuano, with soloists Cecilia Bartoli, Carlo Vistoli and Jean-Marc Goujon.

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Performers

Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic Ars ad Hoc Bagpipe Orchestra Between Worlds Ensemble BigBand Deutsche Oper Berlin Britten Pears Contemporary Ensemble Cantoría Cappella Sagittariana Dresden Chamber Orchestra of the Czech Philharmonic Damkapellet El Gran Teatro del Mundo Ensemble Caplet Ensemble Limewood Ensemble Minium 21 Ensemble Mirage Ensemble Misto Ensemble Nereydas Ensemble O Vos Omnes Ensemble U:Ensemble Virévolte Ensemble of the Estonian Electronic Music Society Ensemble of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart Explore Ensemble Gewandhaus-Oktett Guildhall School Musicians Horngruppe des Symphonieorchesters des Bayerischen Rundfunks Höör Barock Ensemble Il Giratempo Ina GRM Jeunes Talents de l'Académie Jaroussky Kammermusikensemble des DSO Klexos La Lira di Orfeo Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco Manchester Collective Marvão Festival Ensemble Members of Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Members of Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig Members of the CBSO Cello Section Members of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Members of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra Miroirs Étendus Musicians from Orchestre de Paris Musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music NDR Bigband Orsino Ensemble Otrava Phantasm Viol Consort Plattform K+K Vienna Preußens Hofmusik Re-Mix Orchestra Rodenkirchener Kammerorchester Safar Ensemble Spinacino Consort Sydney Symphony Orchestra Musicians TM+Tangram The Flaming Alligators The New Baroque Times Unknown stargaze