As a spellbinding initiation into the full extent of keyboard instruments’ unique capacity for heart-stirring drama, this programme is hard to beat. This showstopper of a concert features two significant rare works, performed by two firecracker virtuosos of the keys. Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based pianist Chiyan Wong has built a global reputation for his extreme technical […]

Revered as one of the world’s greatest interpreters of the Baroque and Classical repertoires, Sir John Eliot Gardiner has set the benchmark for the way contemporary concertgoers hear this music today. The first programme unites two of Mozart’s most profound sacred masterpieces. His famously unfinished Requiem—a setting of the Catholic Mass for the Dead that […]

The Cabane Cubaine was the most famous cabaret in Paris in the 1930s. Now, Cuban piano virtuoso Roberto Fonseca and his band will take you back to the heart of Cuba’s jazz age, bringing the wild energy from Parisian cabarets to the Hong Kong audience. With fiery rhythms of percussion and an orchestra as grand […]

In June 2025, pianist Aristo Sham won both the Gold Medal and Audience Award at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition—an event hailed by The Guardian as “the instrument’s Olympics” and by The New York Times as “one of the most prestigious contests in classical music”. The newspaper from New York also praised his “clarity, […]

Antonín Dvořák’s Requiem offers a moving and uplifting experience of spiritual reflection from one of the most beloved voices in Romantic music. The Czech composer began sketches for the piece in late 1889 and completed it the following year. What emerged was one of his most musically profound and emotionally resonant works—devoid of theatrical exaggeration, […]

Three composers linked by the evolving spirit of 19th-century Romanticism anchor this rich programme from the Academy of St Martin in the Fields—one of the world’s most recorded chamber orchestras and a cornerstone of British musical life since its founding by Sir Neville Marriner in 1958. With its trademark clarity and expressive precision, ASMF brings […]

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 5—known as “Emperor”— combines heroic sweep with lyrical depth: noble in scale, expansive in vision and ablaze with virtuosic brilliance. Written while Vienna was under siege by Napoleon, the concerto radiates confidence and heroism, yet also reveals Beethoven’s poetic side in its rapturous slow movement. Together with the Academy of St […]

Yunchan Lim has already achieved what most musicians only dream of. At 18, he became the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, his electrifying account of Rachmaninov’s Third Concerto going viral with more than 15 million views. His debut recording of Chopin’s complete Études then went on to win the 2024 Gramophone […]

A sublime masterpiece that embodies loneliness, secrets and regret, Wong Kar Wai’s poignant love story evokes an intoxicating nostalgia yet a fervour of romantic longing in the perfection of its aching musical soundtrack and ravishing cinematography. A platonic affection is destined to become a fleeting promise of redemption, yet its timeless glamour conjures ethereal aesthetic […]