Recorded on December 12, 2025, at Joseph-Keilberth-Saal, Konzerthalle Bamberg, Herbert Blomstedt conducts Bamberger Symphoniker in Symphonies by Beethoven (No.4) and Sibelius (No.5). Broadcast on BR-Klassik (Bavarian Radio) on Jan.20.

Recorded on December 12, 2025, at Joseph-Keilberth-Saal, Konzerthalle Bamberg, Herbert Blomstedt conducts Bamberger Symphoniker in Symphonies by Beethoven (No.4) and Sibelius (No.5). Broadcast on BR-Klassik (Bavarian Radio) on Jan.20.

Jan 20, 2026 | Concert Soundbites, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

The Beethoven dawned atmospherically, with keen anticipation of the daylight Allegro to come – swift, virile, dynamic and incisive, mirrored in the nimble yet poised Finale, played agilely. Between these movements an Adagio that married pace and shape ideally,...
The premiere of Ian Whyte’s Violin Concerto – by Stephanie Gonley & BBC Scottish SO conducted by Martyn Brabbins. Recorded November 20, 2025, at City Halls, Glasgow, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Wednesday November 26 at 7.30 p.m., together with music by James MacMillan (Isobel Gowdie) and Rachmaninov (Second Symphony).

The premiere of Ian Whyte’s Violin Concerto – by Stephanie Gonley & BBC Scottish SO conducted by Martyn Brabbins. Recorded November 20, 2025, at City Halls, Glasgow, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Wednesday November 26 at 7.30 p.m., together with music by James MacMillan (Isobel Gowdie) and Rachmaninov (Second Symphony).

Nov 26, 2025 | Concert Soundbites

Ian Whyte (1901-61), founder, in 1935, and principal conductor of BBC Scottish Orchestra from 1946 until his death Composed during the 1950s for Max Rostal, it’s taken since then for the Violin Concerto by Ian Whyte (from 1935 the BBC’s head of music in...
Live on STAGE+. XIX Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina. Bruce Liu kicks off the 19th Chopin Competition with three other former winners, Yulianna Avdeeva, Garrick Ohlsson & Dang Thai Son; conducted by Andrzej Boreyko. Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025; Warsaw Philharmonic Hall.

Live on STAGE+. XIX Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina. Bruce Liu kicks off the 19th Chopin Competition with three other former winners, Yulianna Avdeeva, Garrick Ohlsson & Dang Thai Son; conducted by Andrzej Boreyko. Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025; Warsaw Philharmonic Hall.

Oct 2, 2025 | Concert Soundbites, Videos

“No fewer than four Chopin Competition winners return to Warsaw for a feast of luxurious pianism to mark the inauguration of the 19th International Chopin Competition. Bruce Liu leads the charge with Camille Saint-Saëns’s scintillating Piano Concerto No.5...