This week at Askonas Holt

Giovanni Antonini conducts the Baselkammerorchester in Rheinfelden and Lugano with a programme of Rossini, Beethoven and Weber with soloist Julian Bliss, clarinet.

Alexander Shelley continues his tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

Anna Caterina Antonacci makes her debut performance of her second one woman show 'Altre Stelle' at the Grand Theatre de la Ville Luxembourg. Accompanied by the Le Cercle de l’Harmonie orchestra conducted by Jérémie Rhorer. She performs a selection of songs and arias ranging from Cherubini and Gluck to Berlioz, in an event which stage director Juliette Deschamps has described as "a new form, being neither recital nor concert." Please click here for more.

Franck Ollu conducts the Ensemble Modern in concerts in Frankfurt and Rome.

Soprano Maria Luigia Borsi sings the role of Desdemona in 'Otello' at the Opera di Roma on December 14th, conducted by Riccardo Muti.

Sergei Leiferkus gives a recital in Copenhagen on 5 December as part of the Copenhagen Museum Recital Series.

Lars Vogt performs Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ion Marin.

Gregory Kunde sings concerts of La Damnation de Faust with the Royal Scottish Natonal Orchestra in Glasgow and Perth.

Lionel Bringuier conducts the Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon, in a programme of works by Mussorgsky, Beethoven, Hersant and Stravinsky.

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a programme to include Kurtag, Mozart and Strauss at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Los Angeles.

Dorothea Roschmann sings the role of Donna Elvira at the Metropolitan Opera House's production of' Don Giovanni'.

Yves Abel conducts a concert with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Norway.

Mark Stone performs Bach's Mass in B minor with the Bamberger Symphoniker.

Kirill Gerstein performs Saint Saens Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Sevilla.

Christopher Maltman sings the role of Aeneas in Deborah Warner's production of Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas' at the Paris Opera Comique.

Louis Langrée conducts the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in a programme of Brahms, Franck and Schumann with pianist Imogen Cooper.

George Benjamin conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in works by Messiaen, Carter and himself.

Markus Werba gives a recital at St John's Smith Square accompanied by Gary Matthewman.

Peter Donohoe gives a solo recital at Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton. Programme includes Liszt, Brahms, Franck and Bach.

Amanda Roocroft sings Desdemona at the New Theatre, Oxford in the final performances of the Welsh National Opera's current tour of 'Otello'.

Simon Keenlyside gives a recital of Schumann, Wolf and Schubert at the Frankfurt Opera, accompanied by Malcolm Martineau.

Natalie Clein performs at the recently-opened Kings Place concert hall in London with Shiva Feshareki and Simon Fisher Turner in a programme which shows the cello in various lights called 'Critical Distortions' involving a sound producer and turntables.

Viktoria Mullova gives recitals with the Fortepianist, Kristian Bezuidenhout, in Nijmegen and Krakow.

Julian Rachlin performs the Brahms double concerto with Mischa Maisky and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Zubin Mehta. He and Mischa join Nobuko Imai to play a string trio version of the Bach Goldberg Variations.

Ian Bostridge and the Belcea Quartet give performance of Britten's St Nicolas and Bach Cantatas at the Barbican Centre as the conclusion of Ian Bostridge's residency.

28 November, 2008