Classical

The award-laden Iestyn Davies performs in London

Alina Ibragimova, a new member of the violin pantheon

The cellist trying to bring alien societies together, with a little help from Bach

Thomas Quasthoff’s conducting debut at the Verbier Festival

A Finnish conductor who is celebrating the work of two Scandinavian masters

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s city of light at the Southbank Centre

The cellist who had to teach himself a second time

Evgeny Kissin, by turns thunderous and oracular, tours America

Sarah Connolly is quintessentially English mezzo-soprano who refuses to compromise