Performer: BBC Singers

Rarely does a concert entirely devoted to a big Mahler Symphony later acquire a second half, let alone one containing just twenty minutes of a cappella singing. 

A fascinating new companion piece to Elgar's Enigma Variations, from 14 contemporary composers, in celebration of Martyn Brabbins' 60th birthday, performed with enthusiasm by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Canellakis is an elegant conductor who invests so much in the music and inhabits its lilts and thrills with her whole demeanour.

Gimmicks galore in this genre-hopping spectacle from the BBC Singers and world music fusion band Kabantu.

This final concert of the BBCSO’s Total Immersion day dedicated to György Ligeti, proved to be something a revelation, both in terms of the variety of the music and the quality of the performances.

The BBC Singers sounded as ecstatically joyful in the first three parts of Bach's seasonal offering in Chelsea.