The French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras has to draw on all his technical prowess in Prokofiev's  Sinfonia concertante, one of the most difficult concertos for this instrument. However, he can fall back...

Bertrand Chamayou, the standard-bearer of the new generation of French pianists, is soloist for Beethoven's lyrical  Fourth. It was with this work of revolutionary form that the musical iconoclast rai...

The Taiwanese-Australian virtuoso Ray Chen, winner of the Yehudi Menuhin and Queen Elisabeth Competitions at a very young age, shines in Tchaikovsky's extremely difficult Violin Concerto. This is foll...

The American-Venezuelan Gabriela Montero, known for her briliant improvisations, is soloist in Grieg's Piano Concerto, the only one he wrote for his favourite instrument and that was an immediate succ...

We have invited the English virtuoso Steven Isserlis to perform Haydn's technically challenging Second Cello Concerto, one of the great works in the repertoire. Charles Ives asks the vital questions a...

The Korean-American Esther Yoo, in 2012 one of the youngest ever winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, is soloist in a performance of Sibelius' Violin Concerto, a work she has already recorded w...

It is a pleasure revisited for Marin Alsop and Lukáš Vondráček, because the Czech pianist was winner of the 2016 Queen Elisabeth Competition with Alsop  conducting the NOB. In addition to Rachmaninov'...

Queen Elisabeth prize-winner Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort is the soloist in Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto, a work of art reserved for none but the very best. We then turn to the ambiance of Eastern Eu...

Frank Peter Zimmermann displays his talents in a rendition of Beethoven's everlasting Violin concerto. Preceded and followed by ballet music. Debussy’s Jeux and Stravinsky’s Petroesjka were both writt...

Our fellow countryman Yossif Ivanov, a favourite with the public since the Queen Elisabeth Competition, solos in Stravinsky’s only concerto for the smallest of the string instruments. After the break ...

The versatility of Hugh Wolff, the new musical director of the Belgian National Orchestra, is already apparent from his wide choice of repertoire. Today he has programmed the classical-romantic (Beeth...