Music, Classical, "Dundee"

Solo recital by acclaimed Dundee-born cellist.

A family-friendly concert of carols and seasonal tunes, including the now annual screening of Dianne Jackson's 1982 film of Raymond Briggs' The Snowman with live musical accompaniment, because nothing spells 'Christmas' like a magical fable about the transience of life. Christopher Bell conducts.

Antonin Dvořák's Cello Concerto is one of the great concertos, odd since its composer claimed not to like the cello as a concerto instrument and always swore he'd never write one (and when he did, he promised the solo part to his cellist friend Hanus Wihan but then gave it to somebody else). Here, the soloist is Norwegian…

It's a strange fact of musical history that Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the great piano virtuosi of all time, published three piano concertos before finally delivering one that's regarded as an indisputable classic. Concerto No 4 here features Ingrid Fliter. Also on the programme is Richard Strauss' tone poem Ein…

If the final movement of Brahms' Symphony No 4 were a scene in a film, it would be the heartbreaking scene at the end of Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring in which Sean Bean valiantly attempts to slaughter an entire horde of Uruk-hai while being repeatedly shot; as Donald Tovey noted, although Brahms' Fourth is a…

Dvořák's Symphony No 9 (From the New World) was one of the first pieces of classical music to incorporate melodies from the African American tradition. Here it follows Dispersal by the gifted Australian composer Brett Dean and Britten's Violin Concerto featuring the still-young but already highly experienced Norwegian…