Music, "Aberdeen"

Three office workers get their own back on their lying bigot of a boss and conspire to take over the company, all while singing along to 18 classic Dolly Parton numbers.

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.

Lively ceilidh with local band Clachan Yell.

Metalcore and grove metal, with industrial elements, from the London-based five-piece.

Sweeping and ethereal guitar-driven indie-rock by the platinum-selling four-piece from Glasgow to promote the album Later … When The TV Turns To Static.

Classical and chamber music, contemporary and traditional dance, jazz and theatre is on offer from a cast of rising international and local stars, with companies travelling from the USA, Russia, Middle East, Africa and Asia to perform.

The Aberdeen Sinfonietta is one of the leading musical ensembles in the North East, giving regular concerts and also providing orchestral support to choral societies in the area.

Nottingham alt.rockers.

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.

Christmas favourites presented by Jamie MacDougall and conducted by Stephen Bell.

American cello star Alisa Weilerstein okays Elgar's Cello concerto, plus there's Berlioz's Overture: Le Corsaire and Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4. Donald Runnicles conducts.

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…

The band from Bergen, Norway, plays up-tempo hardcore punk and rock.

The trio don their lingerie, suspenders, boas and glitter for a reunion gig playing songs from Abba, Take That and the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The Blues Band line-up of Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Rob Townsend, Gary Fletcher and Tom McGuiness continues to pay tribute to the blues and R&B boom which inspired them to pick up their instruments in the first place.

The original soppy Irish boy band with granny appeal return celebrating 20 years (way to make us feel old, Boyzone) with their BZ20 Anniversary Tour.

Indie pop from songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Carwyn Ellis.

Melodic, hardcore metal courtesy of the five-piece band from Aberdeen.

Tribute to Jim Morrison's seminal LA rock crew.

A showcase for emerging musical talent from Aberdeen College.

Indie rock band from London on tour to promote their new EP Flag.