March, Music

• Directed by: Gary Lloyd
• Written by: Adrian Grant (adapt)

A celebration of the music and career of Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 including the hits I Want You Back, ABC, Smooth Criminal, Beat It and Billie Jean.

The singer-songwriter plays folk.

Here's how Berlioz came to write the Symphonie fantastique: he saw actress Harriet Smithson on stage and fell in love without ever meeting her, writing her a succession of letters all of which she ignored. Finally, in desperation, he composed an epic symphony to express how he felt about it all (namely, not great). She…

Mod revival pop-rock from the veteran outfit.

The 1960s bands perform their hits.

Ludwig Van Beethoven: String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op.131 Interval Johannes Brahms: String Quartet in C minor, Op.51 No.1 Two of the greatest chamber works by Beethoven and Brahms performed by the world-renowned Artemis Quartet in its International Chamber Music Season debut. Constantly haunted by 'the…

Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata in D minor, BWV.913 Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata in D, BWV.912 Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata in G minor, BWV.915 The toccata already had a long history before Bach took to the genre as a young man. Even these early works show Bach's inclination to extend both the structure and…

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV.1080 Interval .: continued. The fact that Bach died before completing the mighty triple fugue which was to finish The Art of Fugue has added to the extraordinary mythology that has grown up around this marvellous work. But perhaps the most surprising thing about The…

Johann Sebastian Bach: Trio Sonata in G, BWV.1038 Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata in E minor for flute & continuo, BWV.1034 Johann Sebastian Bach: (attrib.): Trio Sonata in C, BWV.1037 Interval Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata in G for violin & continuo, BWV.1021 Johann Sebastian Bach: Trio Sonata in G…

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude in C minor for lute, BWV.999 Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue in G minor for lute, BWV.1000 Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in E flat for lute, BWV.998 Interval Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita in C minor for lute, BWV.997 As with all his works for solo…

Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor Interval .: continued. Bach completed the final version of his greatest choral masterpiece, the B minor Mass, shortly before his death. Even by his own extraordinary standards, the emotional depth and majestic proportions of this work are astonishing. The London Bach…

Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No.82 `Ich habe genug' Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No.152 `Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn' Interval Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No.54 `Widerstehe doch der Sunde' Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No.182 `Himmelskönig, sei willkommen' It is impossible to overstate the importance…

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II, Part 1, BWV.870-881 The first book of Well Tempered Clavier was an extraordinary achievement - 24 preludes and fugues written in every major and minor key. But the second book exceeds even the first in its scale and variety. In this unique event, harpsichord…

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II, Part 2, BWV.882-893 Steven Devine completes his cycle of all 24 Preludes and Fugues from the second book of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Ticket includes a choice of tea or coffee and biscuits served during the interval. Performers Steven Devine…

Military band concerts featuring a variety of styles, from big band to classical pieces. Also a chance to see the famed Royal Marines Corps of Drums.

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…

• Directed by: Sakari Oramo (cond)
• Written by: Villa-Lobos

• Directed by: Sakari Oramo (cond)
• Written by: Sibelius

Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius's Pohjola's Daughter, Esa-Pekka Salonen's Violin Concerto 'Out Of Nowhere' and Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 In D Minor. With violinist Leila Josefowicz.

• Directed by: Sylvain Cambreling (cond)
• Written by: Messiaen

Sylvain Cambreling conducts Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante. With violinist Veronika Eberle and violist Antoine Tamestit.

Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti ed i Montecchi - opera in 2 acts Bellini's sixth opera was written for La Fenice in Venice in 1830, immediately before La sonnambula. It was not based directly on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet but on its Italian precursors. A distinctive coloration is provided by the older tradition of…

Re-live the sights and sounds of the 60s with the most established Beatles tribute band.

A special recital by Cameron Carpenter as part of Pull Out All The Stops festival celebrating the restoration of the Royal Festival Hall organ. Cameron Carpenter, the organist who has taken the music world by storm, improvises an accompanying sound track to the classic German Expressionist horror film of 1920.

The twins of Charlotte and Laura from Salcombe play lively bluegrass and acoustic folk.