This Week at Askonas Holt

Lionel Bringuier conducts the Gulbenkian Orchestra in a programme to include pieces by Tchaikovsky, Corigliano and Stravinsky at the Gulbenkian Grand Auditorium, Lisbon.

Natalie Clein continues her tour of New Zealand and Australia giving recitals this week in Adelaide and Sydney.

Giovanni Antonini conducts il Giardino Armonico in concerts of Brandenburg Concertos 3, 4 and 5 in Frankfurt and Heidelberg.

Nancy Argenta performs the St Matthew Passion at the Baldwin Wallace College Bach Festival, conducted by Dwight Oltman.

Gianluca Cascioli performs Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K.467 with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.

Trevor Pinnock conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in concerts at Symphony Hall, Birmingham and the Forum Theatre, Malvern. His programme comprises Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn, Op. 56a, Mozart Piano Concerto K271 (soloist: Maria Joăo Pires), Liszt 'The Black Gondola' and Haydn Symphony No. 99.

John Mark Ainsley gives a recital at the Philharmonie Cologne.

Gustavo Dudamel conducts concerts with Kirill Gerstein in Caracas with the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.

Sophie Bevan gives a concert at the Wigmore Hall with the Classical Opera Company.

Christine Rice as Ariadne and Rebecca Bottone as First Innocent sing in the world premiere of Harrison Birtwistle's 'The Minotaur' at the Royal Opera House. Christine Rice also gives a concert at Cheltenham Town Hall with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Iestyn Davies sings the title role in Handel's Flavio at Birmingham Town Hall and the Barbican Centre with the Academy of Ancient Music.

Cedric Tiberghien performs a duet recital of Debussy and Britten's Cello Sonata's with Marie Hallynck in Lisbon, Portugal.

Franck Ollu conducts the UK premiere of George Benjamin's opera, 'Into the Little Hill', at the Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008 festival.

Simon Keenlyside sings the title role in 'Wozzeck' at Bastille Paris Opera.

Ian Bostridge makes his recital debut at La Scala, Milan on Monday evening. Ian will sing an all Schubert programme and will be accompanied by Julius Drake.

Xuefei Yang returns to the Wigmore Hall for a solo guitar recital on Wednesday 16 April 2008, at 19:30, following her sell-out previous visit in January 2007. Her programme includes a mix of Spanish and Chinese repertoire, from her second CD for EMI '40 Degrees North': yang40degreesnorth.com. The CD is released to coincide and Fei will sign copies following her recital. As Norman Lebrecht recently asked in his article on Fei in the Evening Standard: 'Can Xuefei Yang be the new face of the classical guitar? I am more than half persauded that she might be'We are already fully persuaded she is!

Dame Felicity Lott gives a recital at the Basilica de San Juan, Canary Islands.

Louis Langrée returns to the Houston Symphony Orchestra to conduct a programme of Messiaen and Saint-Saens.

Leonard Slatkin conducts the Orquesta Nacional de Madrid with soloist Lang Lang.

The Belcea Quartet performs a programme of Haydn, Mozart and Britten at the Chatelet Theatre Paris.

Peter Rose sings the role of Philipp II in Don Carlo at Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.

Christopher Maltman sings the role of Dr. Malatesta in a concert performance of Don Pasquale with the Bayerischer Rundfunk Munich.

Veronika Eberle performs Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lawrence Foster in Hamburg, Geißen and Frankfurt.

Lisa Milne sings Strauss Lieder with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and Perth Concert Hall.

Daniel Harding conducts the London Symphony Orchestra on tour in Scandinavia with violinist Viktoria Mullova.

Julian Rachlin gives a recital with Itamar Golan in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Robin Ticciati embarks on a tour of Japan with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the programme is the Marriage of Figaro. Performances take place at the Aichi Arts Theatre, Festival Hall, Osaka and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan.

Emanuel Ax gives performances of Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Bayerischer Rundfunk conducted by Semyon Bychkov.

Viktoria Mullova is on tour with Daniel Harding and the London Symphony Orchestra where she'll play Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2 in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo and Gothenburg.

Imogen Cooper performs a recital of Schubert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London as part of the International Piano Series.

11 April, 2008