After 5pm, Music, Contemporary

Donald Runnicles conducts Beethoven's Symphony No 4, Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No 1 with soloist James Ehnes, and Adams' jazz symphony City Noir.

Film screening: 2001: A Space Odyssey Following sell-out successes in 2010 and 2011, Southbank Centre presents Stanley Kubrick's seminal film 2001: A Space Odyssey with live music. Conducted by Benjamin Wallfisch, the enormous forces of Philharmonia Orchestra and Philharmonia Voices join together to perform the…

For ALL information and booking: http://www.souldome.com/#!live-performance/c1t4v Intimately stunning live music and dj sets, whilst immersed in 360' shape-shifting visuals. Relaxing on cushions with friends, this is more like a cosy high tech front room. Proudly featuring the Amazing Alison David, Creamy Carrie…

Brass ensemble Alba Brass, all former RSAMD (now RCS) students, bring a very special guest in trumpet virtuoso John Wallace, principal of their alma mater.

Meltdown is proud to present the only UK show this year from Oscar-nominated composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and German producer Alva Noto. The pair have collaborated for over a decade, mixing emotionally charged and passionate piano solos with sparse percussion and throbbing bass pulses. Their experimental project comes…

The saxophonist and the trombonist performs contemporary jazz with bassist Simon Woolf and drummer Steve Brown.

Contemporary jazz by the well-established saxophonist.

Morton Feldman: Patterns in a Chromatic Field for cello & piano .: No interval Morton Feldman's epic Patterns in a Chromatic Field is widely acknowledged as one of his finest late compositions. It is profound, enthralling and infused with a melancholic feeling of departure. Feldman wrote, 'I feel that I listen…

Artisan Trio present a series of concerts of music by contemporary composers who studied in Edinburgh but who now live, teach and work abroad. All the composers also choose a piece that they consider an inspiration and influence to their own work.

Contemporary jazz by the London-based Israeli drummer with his accompanying musicians.

Programme includes: Dmitry Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony in F, Op.73a (arr. Barshai from Quartet No.3) Aurora delves into the shattered landscape that played host to the premiere of Shostakovich's String Quartet No.3. The quartet is a heartfelt and intensely personal response to war, performed here in Rudolf…

Contemporary jazz by the band led by vocalist-composer Brigitte Beraha and Barry Green on piano.

Ghosts of the past and present collide through video and sound technology in this evening-long project from the internationally renowned Brooklyn-based Bang on a Can All-Stars, an electric chamber ensemble that brings together some of the world’s most adventurous musical thinkers. The Field Recordings project looks back…

Toru Takemitsu: Green (November steps II) Toru Takemitsu: Marginalia Toru Takemitsu: I hear the water dreaming for flute & orchestra Interval György Ligeti: San Francisco Polyphony György Ligeti: Violin Concerto A concert showcasing the vibrant music of Ligeti and Takemitsu, two composers that…

• Directed by: David Hill (cond)
• Written by: Eric Whitacre

David Hill conducts Copland's In The Beginning, Eric Whitacre's Three Songs Of Faith, Waternight and his Sleep, plus Reich's The Desert Music, with Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano.

Sarah Chang is the featured soloist in a true American classic: Barber's Violin Concerto, which appears directly after another one, the same composer's mournful Adagio for Strings. Lastly, Copland's Symphony No 3 is conducted by David Alan Miller of the Albany Symphony Orchestra.

Sarah Chang is the soloist in Barber's Violin Concerto, plus there's Tsontakis' Let the River Be Unbroken, a musical panorama the American Civil War, and Copland's rousing Symphony No 3, as stirring a piece of post-war optimism as has ever been written, climaxing as it does with the ever-popular Fanfare for the Common…

Miss this one and you may not get another chance for years: first there's the UK premiere of very hip young US composer Sean Shepherd's Blue Blazes, then Gershwin's Piano Concerto with soloist Freddy Kempff, and to round it all off in high style, Charles Ives' seldom-played Symphony No 2, one of those big ol' American…

Aaron Kernis' Newly Drawn Sky is a popular work by this respected American neo-romantic, and it's paired here with Grieg's Piano Concerto featuring Lars Vogt. Finally, Shostakovich's Symphony No 1 is full of youthful high spirits. Donald Runnicles conducts.

German Japanese maestro Jun Märkl conducts Messiaen's seldom-heard Les Offrandes Oubliées and Poèmes Pour Mi with soprano Gweneth-Ann Jeffers, followed by Debussy's hypnotic Images.

Denis Kozhukhin (piano) is the soloist for Rachmaninov's Concerto No 2, but there's also Nielsen's Symphony No 4 and A Freak in Burbank, an orchestral piece by the acclaimed young Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer, inspired in equal parts by Haydn and Tim Burton. (Tim Burton should do a Haydn biopic.) Thomas Dausgaard…

Towards the end of the Cold War, the late Lewis Thomas wrote that listening to Mahler's Symphony No 9 made him think about 'death everywhere, the dying of everything, the end of humanity'. There's no doubt that Mahler had something similar in mind, even if he did his best to complete a tenth symphony before bacterial…

Ilan Volkov conducts music by two of the 20th century's giants: the great Japanese experimentalist Toru Takemitsu and the Hungarian maverick György Ligeti. Featured soloists are Ilya Gringolts (violin) and Patrick Gallois (flute).

Andrew Manze conducts Vaughan Williams' Symphony No 7, reworked by the composer from the music he wrote for Charles Frend's stiff-upper-lipped 1948 classic Scott of the Antarctic, and featuring Katherine Broderick (soprano) and Women of the Glasgow Chamber Choir. Also featured are Tippett's Divertimento on Sellinger's…

Contemporary jazz by the saxophonist and his accompanying musicians.