Arthur Keegan-Bole

This varied Prom from the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and conductor Vasily Petrenko featured two new works: Nico Muhly's Gait and Anna Meredith's HandsFree. Also on the programme were Edgard Varèse's Tuning Up, and Olivier Messiaen's massive Turangalîla-symphonie with soloists Joanna MacGregor and Cynthia Millar.

English National Opera are performing Detlev Glanert's opera Caligula at the Coliseum, in a production directed by Benedict Andrews and conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth. With strong performances from Peter Coleman-Wright in the title role and the rest of the cast too, this is a great account of an intriguing contemporary opera.

This weekend saw the Southbank Centre embark on an ambitious festival programme of rarely performed composer Conlon Nancarrow, performing all 51 of his studies for player piano. The series was delightfully presented and a terrific way to contextualise the listening experience.

In the cosy confines of a packed Hampstead Theatre, ENO’s adaptation of Jacob Lenz produced an exciting, entertaining and emotionally draining 70 minutes of opera. Premiered in 1979 this is Rihm’s account of writer Jakob Lenz’s descent into madness. Friends with Goethe, Lenz was part of the romantic ‘set’ whose decline into madness is documented in Georg Büchner’s novella.

The Southbank Centre is riddled with cubby-holes, and it was in a particularly tucked-away corner – the “Spirit Level” bar – that a small audience of dedicated sound-lovers heard this exciting concert of morsels and miniatures, presented by cellist Oliver Coates.

This enterprising concert featured Oliver Coates, cellist and curator of the whole 'Harmonic Series' concert series, and trendy performer and composer Micachu: both musicians benefiting from the Artist-in-Residence scheme that is producing some fantastic events for the Southbank Centre.

Oliver Knussen has a reputation for presenting interesting and unusual programmes, and this evening in the sumptuous Barbican Hall was no exception, featuring new and rarely-performed music. This concert was fascinating; a typically exciting Knussen programme that in the end was perhaps more interesting than it was uplifting.