NYO/Bychkov

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, directed by the composer, played victoriously from memory - a thrill

PLG Young Artists

Nicholas Reed had the best programme, balancing the explicitly theatrical with the structural rigour of Xenakis and Manoury

PLG Young Artists

I wonder whether the sedate music clubs of Britain are quite ready to book an avant-garde recorder quintet

National Youth Jazz Orchestra

The enterprise may be underpinned by an educational ethos, but they know they have a duty to entertain as well

Ailish Tynan, Llyr Williams and Evelina Puzaite

The Wigmore celebrates Mendelssohn's 200th birthday year with song and passion

Faithful, joyful and mostly triumphant

Rejoice at John Eliot Gardiner’s unstarry rethink of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio

LSO/Harding

Poor Brahms was wilting from testosterone fatigue under Daniel Harding's exhilarating interpretation

Jason Donovan

Far from exhuming teenage passions, Jason Donovan's 90-minute show acted as a nostalgic memorial to them

Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner

There's nothing like Bach for a spiritual recharge - and nothing like the Monteverdi Choir to provide the electricity

The Pogues

The more Shane MacGowan messed things up, the more the audience seemed to enjoy his antics - and his great songs

Elliott Carter the unstoppabke

The composer is still scoring at 100 — but Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s piano solos iced his birthday cake

Joan Rodgers/Roderick Williams

The recital went up and down, in and out of focus - the price of singing lieder in a venue unkind to the Romantic imagination

Cecilia Bartoli

Bartoli has a shrewd understanding of the salon genre and manages to be both marvellously affecting and endearingly silly

BBCSO/Knussen

Elliott Carter’s fantasy and wit flourished most extravagantly here in the concert’s dazzling three concertos

Acoustic Alchemy and Ray Gelato

Acoustic Alchemy won’t win over many sceptics, but their sleek brand of fusion at least boasts character and harmonic twists

The Rascals

In an awkward position for Miles Kane, most of the arrangements here were over-egged. It could have been so much better

Isserlis Birthday Concert

Schumann is Isserlis’s best beloved, and the tender dawning of this 'rondolette' was indeed the wonder of the evening

Boy George performs despite being jail-bound

The singer didn't mention his assault conviction or that he is likely headed for jail as he performed in London last night

LSO/Harding

Once again the LSO played with great style and warmth for their chief guest conductor, Daniel Harding

Omara Portuondo

By the time she signed off with Besame Mucho she had turned this corner of Islington into Little Havana