Composer

This triple bill showcases neoclassical ballet at its purest. Last season, the programme embraced pieces by three generations of choreographers, George Balanchine, Toer van Schayk, and Edward Clug, who turned to the music by Beethoven, Chopin, and Bizet. Each choreography had its own unmistakable appeal and was enthusiastically received by the audience. This season, the triple bill returns with even greater emotional resonance. Symphony of Dance: An Encore opens with Balanchine’s Symphony in C to Bizet’s music. The spectacular symphony of dance by the father of neoclassical ballet is followed by Edward Clug’s more subdued piece, fittingly titled Ssss… Set to Chopin’s nocturnes, the work provides a shift in mood from nostalgic to pensive. Finally, the programme culminates with Krzysztof Pastor’s choreography to Ravel’s Bolero. The piece needs no special recommendation: it is an explosion of passion and an apotheosis of rhythm that rouses, captivates, and hypnotises.

Symphony of Dance: an encore

Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera

Radical Versatility: Barbara Hannigan conducts the Munich Philharmonic with Bertrand Chamayou (piano). Program by Golfam Khayam, Haydn, Messiaen, Ravel and Schreker. Running time approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Khayam / Haydn / Messiaen / Ravel / Schreker

Gasteig HP8

Described as a pianist with “magician's fingers and soul of integrity” (Le Monde), Canadian Bruce Liu returns to Koerner Hall to perform works by Beethoven, Chopin, Albéniz, and Liszt.

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Bruce Liu, piano

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Münchner Philharmoniker concert with Bertrand Chamayou (piano) and Barbara Hannigan (conductor). Program: Golfam Khayam, Haydn, Messiaen, Ravel, Schreker. Duration approx. 1 hour 45 minutes.

Mæland / Aadland

Norwegian Academy of Music

The American pianist makes her Manchester debut performing selections from her critically acclaimed album Nature.

Tiffany Poon is a pianist whose work centres on interpretation, atmosphere, and emotional precision. She approaches classical music as a living language, shaping sound and silence with intention and clarity, and allowing meaning to emerge through listening rather than explanation.

Tiffany Poon (piano)

Royal Northern College of Music

The Cardinal Quintet is a Manchester-based wind quintet, made up of recent graduates of the Royal Northern College of Music. Since then, Kaoruko, Cara, Connor, Esmé and Anna have enjoyed playing in a variety of concerts and venues across the North West, including the RNCM Concert Hall, Manchester Cathedral, and St Ann’s Church. They were winners of the 2025 RNCM Fewkes Chamber Music Prize and the 2025 June Emerson Launchpad Chamber Music Prize. Valerie Coleman’s Red Clay and Mississippi Delta vividly depicts the bluesy dialect of the Mississippi delta region, home to her mother’s family.

Cardinal Quintet - Relaxed Performance

Leeds Conservatoire

In partnership with the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, we are pleased to present RÊVERIE: Dreams of Harlem and Paris, featuring three founding members of Imani Winds.
Rêverie returns to the early twentieth century through the perspectives of Black artists at the center of “Le Jazz Hot” and the legendary Harlem Renaissance. 

Valerie Coleman & Friends

August Wilson African American Cultural Center

Avi Avital’s programme spans four centuries of mandolin history to show the art that his instrument has inspired. He opens his Wigmore Hall Residency with an engrossing selection of original works and arrangements, including Paul Ben-Haim’s pulsating Sonata a tre and Death is a Friend of Ours, a surprisingly uplifting work specially written for Avi Avital which celebrates the joy of being alive.

Avi Avital mandolin; Anneleen Lenaerts harp; Lukasz Kuropaczewski guitar; Ophira Zakai theorbo; Alexander von Heißen harpsichord

Wigmore Hall

Rêverie returns to the early twentieth century through the perspectives of Black artists at the center of “Le Jazz Hot” and the legendary Harlem Renaissance. 

 

Valerie Coleman, GRAMMY-nominated founding flutist of Imani Winds, is a multi-talented composer, musician, and educator who was named Performance Today’s 2020 Classical Woman of the Year. This sizzling program brings together six powerhouse artists to perform three of Coleman’s compositions and works by Ravel, Debussy and Grant Still.

Classical guitarist and historical plucked instrumentalist Robert Wang juxtaposes early music with contemporary compositions across a repertoire spanning from the Renaissance to the 21st century. A specialist in historically informed performance, he plays theorbo, lute, and baroque guitar. Robert has collaborated with ensembles such as Bach Collegium San Diego, Early Music Vancouver, and Tesserae Baroque. His work on classical guitar includes the recent album FILAMENTOS with Canadian composer Liova Bueno. Additionally, he recently performed music by Veronika Krausas in the production My Birthday Party by SPRUNG. His perfoces have reached major venues like the Chan Centre and The Getty, and he has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning. Robert earned his MM and BM at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music under the tutelage of William Kanengiser, Scott Tennant, Brian Head, and Pepe Romero.

Robert Wang, Guitar

Downey Theatre

Haunted, spiritual works for voice and orchestra. This collaboration with Liquid Music offers meditations on the liminal space between life and death with music by American composers, including multiple premiere performances and the SPCO debut of Roomful of Teeth vocalist Eliza Bagg. Experience the Ordway in a new light on the threshold of All Hallows Eve.

Hexentanz and Threshold were commissioned by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Liquid Music with generous support from Tim and Calli Sullivan, Dr. Tom von Sternberg and Eve Parker. Begin was commissioned by Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and first premiered in California in 2019.

Life After Death

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Pavel Berman and Maria Meerovitch

Teatro La Fenice

Dinis Sousa leads a voyage across the English Channel, celebrating four visionary French masters. In tribute to the wit and beauty of Couperin’s keyboard music, Thomas Adès adds layers of sparkling instrumental texture. Georgian superstar Mariam Batsashvili is the soloist in Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No.2, with its pretty cascading melodies and dramatic twists and turns. Debussy lulls us with washes of impressionistic orchestral colour that conjure the different states of the sea, from calm to storm, and Ravel’s Boléro reminds us of a legendary moment in Olympic figure skating history.

Boléro

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

When the turn of the century dance scene underwent major changes, a new world of sounds, colours and rhythmic imagination opened. Under the direction of Anton Holmer, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra takes you through a time when ballet moved from playful folk to modernist elegance. The Swedish Ballet in Paris was a force that drove development forward both scenically and musically with works such as Darius Millhaud's Le Creation du Monde (The Creation of the World), Kurt Atterberg's De fåvitska Jungfruna (the foolish virgins) and Manuel de Falla's El sombrero des tres pices (the three-tipped hat). Maurice Ravel's Une barque sur l'océan then glides forward like an impressionist dream ship in a concert that brings new life to the ballet music of the turning point.

Ballet at the turn-of-the-century

Berwaldhallen

Impressions… on Ravel and Debussy

Teatro alla Scala

Programmed and led by A2SO Concertmaster Aaron Berofsky, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster Chamber Series features free, intimate performances in some of Southeast Michigan’s most enthralling and engaging spaces. 

These concerts are free with reserved tickets. 

Concertmaster Chamber Series: Berofsky & Friends

First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor

First Presbyterian Church of Ypsilanti

Second part of the Cassandra Miller portrait at Festival d'Automne. Pairs Dad Goes to the Mountain (French premiere) with works by Ravel and Kurtág, exploring childhood and death. Co-presented with L'Auditorium de Radio France.

Cassandra Miller, György Kurtág, Maurice Ravel

Maison de Radio France

For Debussy and Ravel, the soul of French music lay in a more elegant age, and they sprinkled sonic stardust over a dream of the baroque. Each of Chopin’s 24 Preludes, meanwhile, is a miniature world of fantasy, colour and deep emotion - and according to one critic, Llŷr Williams plays them “much as the composer is thought to have played them”.

Llŷr Williams: Baroque Connections 1

Bute Park

Monday Lunchtimes 2026

The jaw-dropping virtuosity, power and nuance demanded by these big works makes this a program of exciting moments. Two of Beethoven’s best-loved sonatas, the shadowy, poetic Moonlight and the exuberant Waldstein, are paired with Ravel’s fiendishly difficult Gaspard de la Nuit – one of the most demanding pieces in the piano repertoire. In Isata’s hands, the vivid atmospheres and poignant intensity of these works become thrillingly present.

Isata Kanneh-Mason in Recital

Sydney Opera House

Valerie Coleman’s Umoja – the Swahili word for ‘unity’ – opens tonight’s concert. Originally composed as a simple song for women’s choir, the orchestral version brings an expansion and sophistication to the short and sweet melody, dancing and weaving throughout the instrument families.

Chineke! Orchestra: Arabic Symphony

Southbank Centre

Around the World in 80 Minutes

Östergötlands museum

Concord Chamber Music opens its season with three masterpieces: Mozart’s dramatic G Minor Piano Quartet, Ravel’s dazzling Duo for Violin and Cello, and Brahms’s powerful C Minor Piano Quartet. Artistic directors Daniel Chong and Jessica Bodner are joined by cellist Karen Ouzounian, a singular voice in classical music, and pianist Katherine Chi, renowned for her elegant and deeply committed artistry.

CCM Season Opener: Mozart, Ravel, & Brahms

Groton Hill Music Center

A triptych of fire and dreams! For its first major symphonic concert of the season, the Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie welcomes back its music director, Roderick Cox, whose conducting is precise and incandescent. His rapport with the musicians promises an exceptional evening.

Opening concert

Le Corum

Having graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, Madeleine now studies with Kathryn Stott at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she recently won the prestigious Gold Medal. She has performed to international acclaim, winning first prize at the Bromsgrove International Musicians’ Competition in May 2025.

Earlier this year, Madeleine made debut appearances at Wigmore Hall and on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune. Later in 2026 she will debut at Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham.

Madeleine Brown

A beloved San Francisco icon, Michael Tilson Thomas redefined the San Francisco Symphony during his extraordinary 25-year tenure as Music Director. In a one-of-a-kind event, MTT’s longtime friends and artistic collaborators—join the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus in a concert celebrating his life and legacy. The program features music by composers closely associated with MTT, including Gustav Mahler, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Charles Ives, and Aaron Copland, alongside world premieres by Mason Bates and MTT himself.

A Concert for MTT

Davies Symphony Hall

The orchestra comes alive in Symphonic Dances, an evening of rhythm, color, and sheer momentum. Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman opens with bold, unmistakable force, followed by the sparkling brilliance of Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture. Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G brings elegance and wit to the stage before Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances closes the program with sweeping intensity and drive.

Symphonic Dances

The Grand Opera House

Since winning the Salzburg International Mozart Competition in 2016, Saskia Giorgini has secured prominence among the top flight of today’s artists with the heartfelt lyricism and musical intelligence of her pianism. She recalls the beauty and refinement of Belle Époque Paris in a programme that includes exquisite miniatures by Mel Bonis and Lili Boulanger and closes with L’isle joyeuse, Debussy’s seductive evocation of Aegean warmth and colour.

Saskia Giorgini piano

Attacca Quartet opens the season with a bold dialogue between Beethoven and the composers he continues to inspire. Known for their clarity, rhythmic vitality, and fearless programming, Attacca pairs Beethoven’s monumental Op. 131—a work of astonishing emotional range—with music by Caroline Shaw, Paul Wiancko, and even Radiohead, revealing the throughlines that connect centuries of musical thought. Beethoven’s late quartet, with its seamless structure and profound introspection, stands as one of the greatest achievements in chamber music. Heard alongside today’s most imaginative voices, it feels not historical, but urgent and alive. This opening concert sets the tone for a season that honors Beethoven as both an origin point and living influence.

Attaca Quartet

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Bask in the radiance of Daphnis and Chloé, Ravel’s depiction of the ancient Greek pastoral novel about the romance between a young shepherd and shepherdess, set musically with shimmering, enchanted soundscapes. Central to this orchestral gem is the choir, singing without words to add dreamy color, as well as the pan flute (a nod to its namesake god, Pan), featured prominently and representing love and desire.

A Night in Ancient Greece: Ravel's Daphnis and Chloé

Salt Palace Convention Center

Curious about instrumental music? Looking to make lunchtime musical? Try this bite-size, informal concert for solo piano.

Free Friday Lunchtime Concert

LSO St Luke's

The Voice and the Soul

Teatro Massimo di Palermo

Mairi McGillivray (pictured) recently completed her Master of Music in Vocal Performance at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire under the tutelage of Louise Crane, having previously gained a Bachelor of Music from University of Glasgow (one semester at State University of New York).

Lunchtime Music

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Concert 1

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi

Celebrate the beginning of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2026/2027 Season with an Opening Night unlike anything you’ve experienced before. Featuring not one, but three extraordinary pianists, this concert blends classical masterworks, jazz-inspired brilliance, and theatrical elements into one concert.

The program begins with Stravinsky’s Petrushka, a dazzling ballet score that shocked audiences with its rhythmic energy and vivid orchestral colors. From there, Duke Ellington’s visionary New World A-Comin’ brings the spirit of jazz and hope-filled American artistry to the stage, followed by the elegance and sparkle of Ravel’s Piano Concerto — a work deeply inspired by the sounds of jazz clubs.

Then, experience Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue like never before. This work is one of America’s most beloved musical masterpieces, fusing classical music with the energy of New York City jazz. Enhanced with dancers and dynamic lighting, this performance transforms the concert experience into a vibrant season-opening event.

Opening Night: Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Some of the most searching music is of the diminutive kind. Tonight's program follows one such thread: Bach's intimate concerto for nine strings and continuo, Ravel's orchestral arrangement of his piano hommage, Christina Courtin, who's giant-proof, and our dear Schubert, another songwriter, who shows that our need for grand finales may be well overstated.

Giant-Proof

Ithaca College

Of Magic & Enchantment

Fox Cities Performing Arts Center

“A thoroughly serious, intelligent musician,” raves the Financial Times of London.  The Boston Herald declares his playing is “direct, honest and a joy to hear.”  Audiences around the globe have cheered the phenomenal Joshua Bell. See him, live in concert with the Madison Symphony and Music Director Emeritus John DeMain, performing Lalo’s dazzling Symphonie Espagnole, and Massenet’s exquisite “Meditation” from Thaïs.

Opening Night with Joshua Bell

Overture Center for the Arts

When three of the most distinctive musical voices of our time – conductor and composer George Benjamin, pianist Bertrand Chamayou and soprano Barbara Hannigan – come together, a program full of intensity, imagination and refined drama emerges. Maurice Ravel opens the evening with rhythmic brilliance and Spanish glow in Alborada del Gracioso, before Jean Sibelius and his enigmatic Luonnotar lead us into a world of myth and creation. Unsuk Chin’s piano concerto follows with explosive energy and sparkling colours, and after the intermission we immerse ourselves in Benjamin’s own Lessons in Love and Violence – music that unites clarity and passion. Finally, we return to Ravel with Rapsodie espagnole, where the lessons of love conclude in dance, heat and seductive shadows.

Lessons in love

Mishka Rushdie Momen’s recording of works by 16th- and 17th-century English and Dutch composers, aptly titled Reformation, captured the hearts of open-minded critics and listeners. Described by The Times as ‘one of the most thoughtful and sensitive of British pianists’, she breathes fresh life and colours into works by the great French composers for harpsichord in a programme rich in spirit and expressive diversity.

Mishka Rushdie Momen piano

Proudly bringing the next generation of exceptional talent to northern Michigan! Experience the brilliance of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major, featuring the Gilmore Young Artist Elliot Wuu.

Ravel & Mendelssohn

John M. Hall Auditorium

Creating something new, bringing something into being that did not exist before: that is the meaning of the ancient Greek verb poiein. Sarah Ying Ma thought it a fitting name when she and her fellow Oberlin Conservatory students Max Ball, Jasper de Boor, and Drew Dansby founded a string quartet in Ohio in 2022. And the four of them hit the ground running: after just one year, the Poiesis Quartet — which collectively identifies as queer — shot straight to first prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Fun fact: their final round of rehearsals was propelled by a special sense of urgency, as they had accidentally prepared according to the previous year’s repertoire guidelines. More awards followed, most recently first prize at the renowned Banff International String Quartet Competition, which also comes with their debut at Lucerne Festival. The “American Dream” of this American quartet? Giving a platform to composers who do not belong to the traditional canon. They will fully embrace that artistic freedom in Lucerne as well: with Pisachi by Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, a member of the Chickasaw Nation, and a quartet by the Black composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, who fused classical, jazz, and pop idioms in his music.

Poiesis Quartet

Lukaskirche Lucerne

Philippe Jordan, “the low-key maestro who’s taking French [music] to new heights” (The Guardian) brings a rejuvenating je ne sais quoi to a night of masterworks by three of the most popular composers from France.

Ravel, Debussy & Saint-Saëns

Hollywood Bowl

Literature, like music, reflects the world and our lives. With our new series, Satzwechsel, we place the two in dialogue. Three times each season, in collaboration with the internationales literaturfestival berlin, we invite renowned authors to the Kammermusiksaal. They read from their latest works and discuss their writing. Music runs alongside: members of the Berliner Philharmoniker perform chamber works that echo and extend the themes of the texts.

Satzwechsel Literature & MusicSatzwechsel Literature

Berliner Philharmonie

The Royal Danish Orchestra’s chamber concerts bring together celebrated masterpieces and rare gems of the chamber repertoire. Meet the musicians at close quarters in the foyer at Takkelloftet, with views across Copenhagen Harbour.

Chamber Music by Three Great Masters

Royal Danish Opera

The program opened with an unexpected Vivaldi: his Concerto for Two Cellos RV 531 , reimagined for cello (Cyrille Tricoire De Haro) and bassoon (Rodolphe Bernard). A rare dialogue between two instruments, between Baroque virtuosity and the complicity of the soloists. Mendelssohn then unfolded the legend of La Belle Mélusine , a fairy-tale overture with melodious waves. Ravel, with his Menuet antique , revived the grace of a bygone era, while Debussy, in Nuages ​​(from the Nocturnes ), suspended the sky in its luminous grays. As a grand finale, Mozart's "Haffner" Symphony burst forth in vibrant fanfares and majestic dances. A night of stars, breaths, and strings.

Under the stars

Agora Theatre

Called “the most dynamic duo of this generation” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and “rock stars of the classical music world" (Miami Herald), Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe work in sync to unearth the essence of each piece they play from their genre-transcending repertoire, testing the boundaries of their instrument. That special alchemy immediately captivates audiences all over the world.

Anderson & Roe

Tippet Rise Art Center

The spark is ignited by the sweeping, urban rhythms of Bernstein’s West Side Story; it passes through the hypnotic, swelling flame of Ravel’s world-famous *Boléro*; and culminates in the final explosion with Rachmaninov’s majestic Piano Concerto No. 3 — long regarded as the most challenging and captivating ever written.
A journey through pure energy, extreme virtuosity and great symphonic passion. An unmissable evening where great music literally bursts into flames beneath the stars of Palermo.

Dance of Fire

Chiaramonte Steri Palace

Supporting young musicians is especially close to Anne-Sophie Mutter’s heart. To this end, she founded the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation in 2008 and can now look back on an impressive roster of distinguished scholarship recipients, including Vilde Frang, Sergey Khachatryan, Daniel Müller-Schott, and Kian Soltani. Her latest discovery is Elias David Moncado, born in 2000: a German-Spanish-Malaysian violinist who won the Grand Prix and ten special prizes at the Karol Lipiński Competition in Poland, gave his first recital at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2025, and will release his debut album on the Warner Classics label in 2026. For this Lucerne debut, he will perform Maurice Ravel’s irresistible Violin Sonata, an American-inspired work with a “blue” movement at its center. Playing the “Ludwig, ex-Szigeti” Stradivari, he will also tackle high-virtuoso fare such as Franz Waxman’s finger-breaking Carmen Fantasie. And four more of Mutter’s protégés will also appear in this extraordinary debut concert, performing two brand-new pieces that Anne-Sophie Mutter commissioned especially for them to mark the 50th anniversary of her Lucerne stage debut — works now receiving their world premieres. For championing new music is another of this great virtuoso’s passions.

Elias David Moncado | David Tobin | Ye-Eun Choi | Hwayoon Lee | Lionel Martin | Lauma Skride

It’s not often you get to hear music written for two pianos – or rarer still, four hands playing the same piano. You need two musicians totally in synch, so deeply connected that they know each other’s every thought and gesture.

Lucas & Arthur Jussen in Recital

Over their first six months as Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows, these aspiring musicians have experienced everything from vast symphonies to more intimate chamber concerts, all while getting to know each other’s playing styles.

Fellows Choice

St James' Church, Sydney

Trio Azura has quickly emerged as one of today’s most promising young ensembles, praised by Gramophone for its “intelligence and imagination” and “profound emotion.” Formed in 2022 at the Colburn School, where they are ensemble in residence, the trio studies with Jonathan Brown, Martin Beaver, Clive Greensmith, and Fabio Bidini. The members of Trio Azura were named winners of the 2025 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions and appointed YCA Jacobs Fellows, becoming YCA’s first ensemble in residence.

Trio Azura

Take a trip to France with The Cleveland Orchestra and conductor Antonello Manacorda in this evening of music by Ravel and Debussy. Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G sparkles in a performance by Argentine pianist Nelson Goerner, complemented by the utterly charming Mother Goose Suite. Meanwhile, Debussy’s mystical melodies and harmonies are put on full display in his pathbreaking Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and the three dreamy Nocturnes.

Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G

Blossom Music Center

Wind soloists from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra explore music from Poulenc, Ravel and Françaix, with their conductor Maxim Emelyanychev on piano.

Maxim Emelyanychev & SCO Wind Soloists

The Queen's Hall

This concert embraces both the Baroque and the Nordic, blending European and Norwegian music. From folk tunes from Valdres to the great Baroque composers, it is a varied program packed with gems from the classical and folk music repertoire!

Echo from the Baroque

Akershus festning

A Musical Gift- FREE Concert

Lincoln City Cultural Center

Our Rising Stars programme invites outstanding up-and-coming performers to The Queen’s Hall stage. They perform alongside their internationally acclaimed mentors, soprano Louise Alder and pianist James Baillieu. The new recruits for 2026 curate and perform the repertoire for the first half of the concert.

Rising Stars of Voice with Louise Alder

One of the world’s leading concert pianists, Angela Hewitt appears in recital and as soloist with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Asia. Her interpretations of the music of J.S. Bach have established her as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters of our time.

ANGELA HEWITT, piano

Maverick Concert Hall

When the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra comes to Gustav Adolfs Torg, an evening of music awaits, spanning different eras and worlds. The programme ranges from Gershwin’s Summertime and Piazzolla’s Buenos Aires to Hugo Alfvén’s The Herdmaiden’s Dance. The evening continues with Stravinsky’s The Firebird and concludes with Ravel’s Boléro, as the music gradually builds to a powerful crescendo. The concert also marks Andrés Orozco-Estrada’s first appearance as Chief Conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Trumpeter Ellinor Bengtson performs as soloist.

From the Firebird to Boléro

Gustav Adolfs torg

We are back at Frogner hovedgård, and with French composers as the common thread, we dedicate the afternoon to chamber music from the late Romantic era and Impressionism. This is a concert where lyrical melodies and tonal colors are given free rein, and it is perfect for you if you have a heart for the harp.

French Focus

Frogner hovedgård

Chamber Music: Trio Wanderer

Parc de Florans

No stranger to the spotlight, Hardenberger takes centre stage for Aerial, a work written with and for him by Austrian composer HK Gruber.

Orchestral Dances with Håkan Hardenberger

Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier Suite features a fantastic waltz, full of sweeping elegance, while Ravel’s La Valse has a moodier opening that gives way to a flood of opulence and a huge ending designed to bring the house down.

For Schools: Open Rehearsal with Fabien Gabel

High Festival Level

Imperial Baths

David Shifrin and the Verona Quartet perform Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet, one of the composer’s final works and one that’s often cited as his greatest piece of chamber music. The program also includes a gorgeous harp showpiece by Ravel—his Introduction and Allegro—and an intriguing piano quartet by Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug called Green Torso, which was inspired by a bronze sculpture by the Santa Fe–based Hopi artist Dan Namingha.

Brahms & Ravel

New Mexico Museum of Art

Family concert. Fairy tale suite by Maurice Ravel, performed by Unge talenter Bjergsted (UtB) with narrator and dancers.

Mother Goose: A Fairy Tale Suite

Spor 5

28th Closing Concert. Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye (suite for piano four hands); Brahms: String Quintet in G major, Op. 111; Taneyev: Piano Quartet. Intermission between works.

Blue moon

Stavanger domkirke

Piano recital by David Kadouch at the Parc de Florans, La Roque d'Anthéron. Program: Debussy, Bonis, Fauré, Boulanger, Ravel.

6 PM Recital: David Kadouch, Piano

Dèjà Vu

Orto Botanico di Palermo

From the raw percussion of Rebonds to the dances of West Side Story, via Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion and Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances.

West Side Story

Salon de Provence

Pianist Nicolas Namoradze, winner of the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition, gives a recital featuring Ravel’s exquisitely restrained Pavane pour une infante défunte; a lesser-known and wonderfully original sonata by Beethoven; Scriabin’s seaside-inspired Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp Minor, Op. 19; and music from Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé ballet score, which Stravinsky called “one of the most beautiful products of all French music.”

Nicolas Namoradze Piano Recital

Grammy Award–winning baritone Will Liverman and Grammy-nominated pianist Myra Huang return for a powerful program that includes American composer Robert Owens’s stirring song cycle Mortal Storm, which features settings of works by the renowned Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, and Mahler’s famous Songs of a Wayfarer, a deeply moving collection that evokes the anguish of lost love.

Will Liverman & Myra Huang Recital

5th Festival Chamber Concert: French Chamber Music with Harp

Munich Residence

A truly exceptional pianist of huge nuance, expression and communicative abilities returns to this year’s festival with a recital at Merton College Chapel bookended by Beethoven. Isata Kanneh-Mason plays the composer’s iconic Moonlight and Waldstein sonatas while also bringing us the striking imagery and technical virtuosity of Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. After that come two works by one of the most imaginative and original composers working today Dobrinka Tabakova, including another moon-themed work – her luminous depiction of a lunar phenomenon from darkness to shine to settled glow, Halo.

Isata Kanneh-Mason

Merton College

Piano duo recital by the brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen, with a program of Mozart, Schumann, Ravel, Debussy and Rachmaninoff.

Recital by Lucas and Arthur Jussen, Piano Duo

Few can match the dazzling brilliance and zen-like focus that Boris Giltburg brings to every performance. His latest Wigmore Hall recital would command attention for no other reason than its inclusion of Liszt’s Sonata in B minor, a titanic monument of Romantic music. Yet the Moscow-born Israeli pianist places Liszt’s single-movement masterwork in company with a succession of musically powerful, technically-demanding compositions, crowned by Gaspard de la nuit, Ravel’s mesmerising suite of character pieces.

Composer

Maurice Ravel

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 12 - Dec 14, 2026

Monday Lunchtimes 2026 · Royal Northern College of Music

Oct 31 - Nov 14, 2026

Symphony of Dance: an encore · Polish National Opera

Nov 1, 2026

Daniel Hope & Maxim Lando · Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts

Nov 1, 2026

Sorcery, Magic & Fireworks · Worthing Symphony Orchestra

5 - 10 Nov, 2026

Bolero · Teatro di San Carlo

Past events

Oct 31 - Nov 14, 2026

Symphony of Dance: an encore · Polish National Opera

Oct 30, 2026

Khayam / Haydn / Messiaen / Ravel / Schreker · Gasteig HP8

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