Instrument: Visual artist

An admirable but disjointed performance of Beethoven's sacred choral work did not benefit from an extratextual art installation.

A world premiere from an exciting young composer and a finely detailed performance of Schubert outshone this program's main event, a visual installation inspired by Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

Messrs Rattle and Sellars bewitch the Barbican audience with a sumptuous rendition of Janáček's magnum opus. 

Excellent performances of Scelsi's Uaxuctum and John Luther Adams' prescient Become Ocean were by accompanied by an impressive, but ultimately distracting audiovisual display.

Overshadowed by its Hanseatic cousin Hamburg, Antwerp recently celebrated the opening of its own new concert hall. In his Symphony no. 2, Wim Henderickx tested the hall's capabilities with a multi-media extravaganza.

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is used a reference in Anna Meredith’s Anno, an immersive performance by the Scottish Ensemble with surround visuals by illustrator Eleanor Meredith.

LA dance project tours to London and presents a mixed bill of works by Millepied and Cherkaoui at the celebrated Sadler's Wells