John Williams’ grand Imperial March from Star Wars is followed by Brahms’ virtuosic Second Piano Concerto with soloist Pavel Kolesnikov. The second half features a suite of music from Wagner’s last, great opera, Parsifal.

December would not be the same without the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s much-loved Christmas Cracker concert. Filled with festive favourites and sing-along classics for all ages; it’s the perfect way to celebrate the magical Christmas season.

A concert that no lover of movie music will want to miss.

The music of John Williams: Academy Award-winning composer of film scores ranging from Superman to Harry Potter. The artistry of Anne-Sophie Mutter: undisputed queen of violin virtuosos, an artist with fingers of steel and a tone of pure gold. Tonight they come together, as Mutter gives the UK premiere of Williams’s Violin Concerto No. 2. ‘I took my inspiration and energy directly from this great artist’, says Williams, and along with classic scores by Leonard Bernstein and Williams himself, it’s the centrepiece of a concert that no lover of movie music will want to miss.

A celebration of Baroque masterpieces by Vivaldi, Marcello, Boccherini, Bach, Handel, Pachelbel, Rameau, Weiss and Purcell by virtuoso guitarist Miloš and the award-winning, internationally-acclaimed period performance ensemble Arcangelo.

Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe takes us on a journey through guitar and lute music across the centuries from Couperin to Adès.

Sister and brother, husband and wife: for the Schumanns and Mendelssohns, musical genius was a family affair, and when you hear their music played together it evokes a whole, wonderfully vivid world of love, friendship and imagination without limits.

The distinguished Ukrainian conductor Natalia Ponomarchuk follows Felix and Fanny from their childhood home in Berlin to the moors and mists of 19th-century Scotland, while pianist Alexander Melnikov explores the relationship between Clara and Robert Schumann – a husband and wife united in their devotion to the piano, to art and to each other

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Abel Selaocoe presents a mesmerising fusion of musical worlds, bringing together timeless minimalism and the intricate harmonies of the Baroque era with the unique timbres of African strings.

Short in length but limitless in imagination, all 24 of Debussy’s magical Préludes for piano are performed by one of their supreme living interpreters, Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

A composer’s mind is an exotic place at the best of times.

Still, nothing in music quite matches the fabulous, opium-fuelled phantasmagoria that is Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. Born of unrequited love, and sweeping from pastoral love-scenes to the foot of the guillotine itself, it never fails to startle and amaze. Guest conductor Ryan Bancroft brings all his verve, and teams up with one of the piano’s great poets – Inon Barnatan – to find new depths in Tchaikovsky’s grandest and best-loved piano concerto. You’ve heard it before, but not like this.