Mike Wheeler

Mike Wheeler has been writing about music professionally, both programme notes and journalism, since the mid-1990s. He has a BA (Hons) degree in music from Nottingham University, and is an adult education tutor for the WEA. He has also given pre-concert talks and presentations for recorded music societies. His interests and sympathies are very catholic, covering a wide range of periods, genres and styles, though he tends to regard twentieth-century British music (Elgar onwards) as a kind of home base.

 

Articles by Mike Wheeler

Mike Wheeler attends the first concert of Nottingham's new orchestral season, with John Storgårds conducting the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Maurice Ravel, Camille Saint-Saëns and Igor Stravinsky

Mike Wheeler is impressed with music by Carwithen, Kelly, Rachmaninov, Chaminade, Korngold and Sibelius from Clare Hammond, Anna-Maria Helsing and the BBC Concert Orchestra

Mike Wheeler feels privileged to hear works by young composers at a BBC Proms concert in Nottingham

In the last of his reports from the 2024 Buxton Festival, Mike Wheeler experiences Ethel Smyth's comic opera 'The Boatswain's Mate'

Mike Wheeler hears music by Bridge, Elgar and Brahms from the Dante Quartet

Mike Wheeler listens to an eclectic programme from pianist Ryan Drucker at the Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Fenella Humphreys and Martin Roscoe's Buxton Festival recital marking the centenary of the death of Gabriel Fauré

Mike Wheeler experiences Franz Joseph Haydn's opera buffa 'La Canterina'

Mike Wheeler was in the audience at Buxton for Giuseppe Verdi's 'Ernani'

Mike Wheeler was at the conclusion of Buxton Festival's Paul Lewis Schubert sonata series

Mike Wheeler witnesses the devastating conclusion to Handel's 'Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno' at the Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler listens to the Kleio Quartet's Buxton Festival recital

Mike Wheeler explains his opinion of Peter Brook and Jean-Claude Carrière's take on Bizet's 'Carmen'

Mike Wheeler notes the distinction of Paul Lewis as a Schubert interpreter at the 2024 Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler, in the first of several visits to this year's Buxton Festival, listens to a discussion between Jane Glover and Leah Broad

Mike Wheeler savours an Anglo-American programme from the Sitwell Singers

Mike Wheeler was at Nottingham Royal Concert Hall's farewell to Mark Elder as he steps down as musical director of the Hallé Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to Glazunov orchestral music

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Brahms, Chopin, Butterworth and Elgar from Stephen Hough, Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to music by Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák from Sunwook Kim, Alexandre Bloch and the Philharmonia Orchestra

Mike Wheeler reacts to music by Holst, Andrew Carter, Moses Hogan and John Rutter

Mike Wheeler reports from a celebratory Sitwell Singers concert featuring Bruckner and Cornelius

Mike Wheeler listens to Maria Ioudenitch, Stanislav Kochanovsky and the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to the Aquinas Trio

Mike Wheeler reviews a restrained but purposeful account of J S Bach's St John Passion

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Hanni Liang's pianism, but reports that some audience members were unhappy with her recital's lecture element

Mike Wheeler listens to Elgar, Rachmaninov, Debussy and Dvořák in Derby Cathedral

Mike Wheeler finds that the ending of Opera North's 'Così fan tutte' works brilliantly

Mike Wheeler reviews Opera North's Mascagni/Rachmaninov double bill

Mike Wheeler listens to a joint concert by Derby Cathedral Choir and Sinfonia Viva

Mike Wheeler listens to Bruckner's Symphony No 8 from Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to Valentin Silvestrov, Rachmaninov, Manuel de Falla and Musorgsky from Russian pianist Victor Maslov

Mike Wheeler is impressed with the return of Dinis Sousa and the Royal Northern Sinfonia to play Prokofiev, Mozart and Beethoven

Mike Wheeler is impressed by French/German pianist Elena Fischer-Dieskau's performances of Mélanie Bonis, Robert Schumann and Rachmaninov

Mike Wheeler listens to mostly avian music from Edouardo Strausser and the CBSO

Mike Wheeler listens to choral music by seven students from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Mike Wheeler enjoys Sinfonia Viva's performance of Mozart's 'Gran Partita'

Mike Wheeler listens to a cello and piano recital given by Kathryn Monteiro and Joanna Lam

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Grieg and Chopin from British pianist Alexander Ullman

Mike Wheeler starts the year with music by Dani Howard, Smetana and Richard Strauss from the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

Mike Wheeler finds a concert by Nigel Short's Tenebrae choir unmissable

Mike Wheeler listens to music for two harps and various percussion from the Chroma Harp Duo

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Mendelssohn, Liszt, Beethoven and J S Bach/Myra Hess played by Japanese pianist Yu Kosuge

Mike Wheeler celebrates Christmas with the Sitwell Singers and conductor Dexter Drown

Mike Wheeler was delighted with music by Chabrier, Saint-Saëns, J S Bach and Rachmaninov from Bruno Philippe, Chloé van Soeterstède and the Hallé Orchestra

Mike Wheeler was at Derby Concert Orchestra's Christmas Concert

Mike Wheeler listens to Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin from Israeli pianist Ariel Lanyi

Mike Wheeler listens to Mozart and Haydn choral music

Mike Wheeler listens to the chamber group Serenata

Mike Wheeler listens to Sinfonia Viva's wind principals playing music by Maddy Aldis-Evans and Musorgsky

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Jonathan Dove's 'For An Unknown Soldier'

Mike Wheeler listens to music by J S Bach, Howells, MacMillan, Puccini, Reger, Sibelius and Vaughan Williams from the Sitwell Singers and friends

Mike Wheeler enjoys Opera North's 'eco-entertainment' based on music by Henry Purcell

Mike Wheeler finds that Opera North's 'La Rondine' has all the company's usual flair, but has reservations in general about Giacomo Puccini's music

Mike Wheeler enjoys Opera North's production of Giuseppe Verdi's 'Falstaff'

Mike Wheeler listens to a highly charged performance by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine

Mike Wheeler listens to music by Vaughan Williams, George Walker and Tchaikovsky

Mike Wheeler listens to a recital by Petr Limonov

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Lyadov, Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Rachmaninov from Pavel Kolesnikov and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko

Mike Wheeler listens to Mozart, Richard Strauss and Gustav Holst from Sinfonia Viva

Mike Wheeler listens to the Coull Quartet

Mike Wheeler listens to Elgar, Anna Clyne, Ravel and Beethoven from Jess Gillam, Ben Gernon and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Mike Wheeler is fascinated by the music of Supriya Nagarajan and Lucy Nolan

Mike Wheeler, in his last report from this year's Buxton Festival, is impressed by Sacha Rattle and Peter Donohoe

Mike Wheeler congratulates Nicky Spence and Joseph Middleton on their Buxton Festival programme

Mike Wheeler reports on Jack Hancher's Buxton Festival guitar recital

Mike Wheeler listens to Haydn, Ravel and Dvořák from the Tedesca Quartet

Mike Wheeler listens to Verdi and Borodin from the Victoria String Quartet at the Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler comes across another strand in the concept of historical performance whilst reviewing Handel's 'Orlando' at the Buxton Festival

Mozart's 'Il Re Pastore' at the Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler reports on the gender-politics of the Buxton Festival's production of Bellini's 'La Sonnambula'

Mike Wheeler reports from the Buxton Festival on 'The Land of Might-Have-Been'

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Opera North's concert version of Bizet's 'The Pearl Fishers'

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Rimsky-Korsakov, Rodrigo, Lili Boulanger and Stravinsky from Sean Shibe, Delyana Lazarova and the Hallé Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to Florence Price and Dvořák

Mike Wheeler hears The Sixteen

Mike Wheeler listens to Dvořák, Bruch, J S Bach and Rimsky-Korsakov from Daishin Kashimoto and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with its new chief conductor Kazuki Yamada

Mike Wheeler is impressed by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor Eva Ollikainen

Mike Wheeler listens to Bomsori Kim, Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to chamber music by Schubert and Fauré from Ruth Rogers, Fiona Bonds, Katherine Jenkinson, Benjamin Russell and Viv Mclean

Mike Wheeler listens to Dvořák, J S Bach, Dobrinka Tabakova and Sibelius from Jakob Koranyi, Tabita Berglund and the Hallé Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to J S Bach's 'St Matthew Passion'

Mike Wheeler is impressed with Opera North's production of 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

Mike Wheeler reports on David Pountney's re-staging of Janáček's 'The Cunning Little Vixen' for Opera North

Mike Wheeler listens to Stravinsky and Mahler from Derby Concert Orchestra

Mike Wheeler is impressed by German baroque music from Sinfonia Viva

Mike Wheeler listens to Khachaturian, Mozart, Robert Schumann and Sibelius from Jordanian-Palestinian pianist Iyad Sughayer

Mike Wheeler listens to Missy Mazzolli, Brahms and Beethoven from James Ehnes and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kevin John Edusei

Mike Wheeler listens to Ravel and Chopin played by Russian-born British pianist Petr Limonov

Mike Wheeler listens to Amy Dickson and Martin Cousin

Mike Wheeler is impressed with Grieg and Shostakovich from pianist Elisabeth Brauss, conductor Alpesh Chauhan and the Hallé Orchestra

A delectable recital by Jeneba Kanneh-Mason

Music by Britten, Anna Clyne, Richard Strauss and Johann Strauss II from the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

Mike Wheeler listens to Walton, Ravel, Gershwin and Debussy from John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London

The Sitwell Singers' 2022 Christmas concert

Mike Wheeler listens to Sarah Beth Briggs

Mike Wheeler was at Derby Concert Orchestra's Christmas Concert

Mike Wheeler listens to the Aquinas Trio

Mike Wheeler listens to Filarmonica Braşov

Mike Wheeler listens to Dutch pianist Hannes Minnaar

Mike Wheeler finds real character in a Derby performance of Verdi's Requiem

Mike Wheeler listens to Bartók, Dohnányi and Dvořák from Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason

Mike Wheeler reviews a production of Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo' which merges cultural worlds

Mike Wheeler has no complaints while listening to choral music by Vaughan Williams, Howells and Schmidt

Mike Wheeler finds Opera North's production of Gluck's 'Orfeo ed Euridice' totally riveting

Mike Wheeler listens to J S Bach, Chopin, Schubert and Debussy from English pianist Colin Stone

Mike Wheeler experiences Alessandro Talevi's revised production of Giuseppe Verdi's 'La traviata'

Mike Wheeler listens to music by Valentin Silvestrov and Karl Jenkins

Russian pianist Anna Tsybuleva

Mike Wheeler listens to Dukas, Elgar, Tabakova and Walton from Zlatomir Fung, Ben Gernon and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to the Fitzroy Quartet

Mike Wheeler was at the first concert in Nottingham Royal Concert Hall's orchestral season

Folk-songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Mike Wheeler listens to Sibelius, Grieg and Dvořák from Derby Concert Orchestra and guest conductor Bob Chasey

Mike Wheeler listens to the Delphine Trio, in his last report from the 2022 Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler enjoys a 'Strictly Musical' evening at Buxton Opera House

Mike Wheeler listens to the English Concert and soprano Anna Dennis at the Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler listens to the recital 'Colour My Song' at the 2022 Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler listens to Kate Whitley and Laura Attridge's oratorio 'Our Future In Your Hands' at Buxton

Mike Wheeler listens to the Solus Trumpet Ensemble at the 2022 Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler listens to Charles Owen's piano recital at the 2022 Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler reports on Jonathan Dove's 'Mansfield Park' at the Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler experiences 'Viva la Diva' at Buxton

Mike Wheeler was at Buxton Opera House for 'Gypsy: A Musical Fable'

Mike Wheeler reports from the Buxton Festival on Rossini's 'La Donna del Lago'

The Sitwell Singers pay tribute to their former conductor, with help from various friends and colleagues, including a new work written for the occasion by Bob Chilcott

Wagner's 'Parsifal', on tour with Opera North

Mike Wheeler listens to Jess Gillam and the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Stephen Bell

Mike Wheeler listens to Brahms' Requiem

British harpist Lucy Nolan plays music by Marcel Tournier, Benjamin Britten, Sally Beamish, Paul Patterson, Tsvetlina Likova and Astor Piazzolla

Mike Wheeler listens to music by Raphael Clarkson, Cecilia McDowall, Beethoven, Bartók, Preetha Narayanan and Mozart to celebrate Sinfonia Viva's fortieth anniversary

Beethoven, Brahms, Vaughan Williams and Walton from Boris Giltburg, Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Dora Pejačević, Sibelius and Mahler from Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Jan Latham-Koenig and the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to baroque choral music by J S Bach, Handel and Purcell

Mike Wheeler reviews Tim Albery's production of Handel's 'Alcina' for Opera North

Mike Wheeler listens to Dvořák, Bruch and Brahms

Mike Wheeler experiences Opera North's new production of Verdi's 'Rigoletto'

Mike Wheeler is impressed by performances of Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Myroslav Skoryk from Patricia Kopatchinskaya, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Mike Wheeler is impressed by the Fitzroy Quartet's performance of music by Haydn, Mozart, James MacMillan, Arvo Pärt and Beethoven

Mike Wheeler listens to a talk about, then a performance of, Elgar's Symphony No 1

Mike Wheeler listens to Mozart, Debussy and Prokofiev, played by Ke Ma

Music for saxophone and harp

Mike Wheeler listens to Beethoven and Berlioz from Stephen Waarts, the Hallé Orchestra and Maxime Pascal

Mike Wheeler listens to British pianist George Harliono

Mike Wheeler listens to Franz Schmidt, Rachmaninov and Dvořák in Nottingham

Mike Wheeler listens to Christmas music from Derby Bach Choir, Derventio Brass and Old Vicarage School Choir

The Cann Twins play Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Brahms, Johann Strauss II, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin and Jeffrey Reid Baker

Bernstein, Marsalis and Musorgsky from Nicola Benedetti, Cristian Măcelaru and the Hallé Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to a pre-Christmas programme from Derby Concert Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to piano music by Claude Debussy, Rhian Samuel, Francis Poulenc, Martin Butler, Robert Schumann and Benjamin Britten, played by Helen Reid

Mike Wheeler listens to Dinis Sousa and the Royal Northern Sinfonia

Mike Wheeler reports on Opera North's production of Leonard Bernstein's 'Trouble in Tahiti'

Mike Wheeler listens to Schumann and Musorgsky from Sicilian-born pianist Giuseppe Guarrera

Mike Wheeler reports on Opera North's production of Bizet's 'Carmen' in Nottingham

The Sitwell Singers' first concert since the passing of conductor Malcolm Goldring earlier this year

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Mendelssohn and Beethoven from Nicola Benedetti, Tom Service, Nicholas Collon and Aurora Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to Haydn, Bartók and Schubert, played by the Iuventus String Quartet

Mike Wheeler listens to the strings of Sinfonia Viva

Mike Wheeler listens to J S Bach, Liszt and Schubert from Emmanuel Despax

Chamber music from members of Sinfonia Viva

Mike Wheeler welcomes Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra back to Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall for the opening of the new season

Mike Wheeler rounds up his coverage of the 2021 Buxton Festival with concerts by Sarah Connoly, Roderick Williams and Natalie Clein

Mike Wheeler is impressed by a very unusual performance of Handel's 'Acis and Galatea'

Mike Wheeler has some doubts about the Buxton Festival production of Pauline Viardot's opera 'Cendrillon'

Mike Wheeler listens to an organ recital by Peter Wright

Mike Wheeler listens to the Richard Roddis Singers, performing for the first time in over two years

Mike Wheeler reports from the first of Derby Cathedral's summer organ recitals

Two more concerts at the 2021 Buxton Festival

Errolyn Wallen's sequel to Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas'

Mike Wheeler experiences Jonathan Dove's 'The Enchanted Pig' at the Buxton Festival

Two Buxton Festival concerts involving the guitar

Mike Wheeler is not so sure about Malcolm Arnold's 'The Dancing Master', as performed at the Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler listens to Kathryn Stott's Buxton recital

Mike Wheeler listens to the Pelléas Ensemble at the Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler reports on the Buxton Festival's first ever musical - Stephen Sondheim's 'A Little Night Music'

Mike Wheeler listens to The Sixteen in Derby

Mike Wheeler listens to the Françaix Wind Trio

Mike Wheeler listens to performances by members of the Kanneh-Mason family

Mike Wheeler listens to Ivan Hovorun

Mike Wheeler listens to the Sinfonia Viva Brass Quintet

Mike Wheeler reports on unusual rumours from Grez-sur-Loing in France

A streamed performance of a wind arrangement of 'Pictures From an Exhibition' from Derby's Joseph Wright Gallery

Mike Wheeler reviews Sinfonia Viva's streamed performance from Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, UK

Opera North's live streaming of Beethoven's 'Fidelio'

'The Seven Deadly Sins' streamed live by Opera North

Peter Siepmann plays Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Duruflé and César Franck on the Compton organ at Derby Cathedral

Laurence Caldecote plays works by Théodore-César Salomé, William Harris, Hendrik Andriessen, George Frideric Handel, Wallace Sabin, Herbert Howells, Leonard Butler and Jean Sibelius for the Derby Cathedral Autumn Organ Recitals

Mike Wheeler listens to Simon Russell's offering for the Derby Cathedral Autumn Organ Recital Series

Mike Wheeler listens to Thomas Hawkes playing J S Bach, Percy Fletcher, Pietro Yon, Johannes Brahms, C S Lang and Louis Vierne on the Compton Organ at Derby Cathedral

Mike Wheeler recommends full support for Opera North's autumn 2020 schedule

Mike Wheeler watches 'Nottingham Stories: Separation and Serenade', a series of videos created by Carmen Flores, director of Nottingham Chamber Music Festival

Adrian Kelly talks to Christian Curnyn about Handel's 'Acis and Galatea' as part of the Buxton International Festival Digital 2020 Season

A selection of performances by Sarah Connolly, as part of the Buxton International Festival Digital 2020 Season

Annie Lydford, Julian Glover and Emily Gottlieb in conversation with Michael Williams as part of the Buxton International Festival Digital 2020 Season

Mozart from Omer Meir Wellber and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra with 'a number of surprises' as part of the Buxton International Festival Digital 2020 Season

Paul Kerryson and Wyn Davies explore the work of Stephen Sondheim and 'A Little Night Music', in conversation with Michael Williams, as part of the Buxton International Festival Digital 2020 Season

Mike Wheeler watches Buxton Festival's film 'Kate Whitley and Laura Attridge in conversation with Michael Williams', discussing the creation of the opera/oratorio 'Our Future, In Your Hands'

Mike Wheeler watches the film 'Adrian Kelly and Jacopo Spirei - La donna del lago and the role of the stage director' from the Buxton Festival's online offering

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Lynne Marsh's film 'Tragedy', which provides an altered experience of Opera North's production of Verdi's 'La traviata'

Mike Wheeler reviews a recording of Opera North's recent production of Kurt Weill's 'Street Scene'

Mike Wheeler listens to Suppé, Dvořák and Holst at Derby Concert Orchestra's seventieth anniversary concert

Mike Wheeler has some thoughtful comments on a performance by Tasmin Little, Duncan Riddell, Thierry Fischer and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to Robert and Clara Schumann, Chopin, Grieg and Cheryl Frances-Hoad, played by British pianist Tom Poster

Prokofiev and Beethoven symphonies from the Hallé Orchestra and Mark Elder

Mike Wheeler witnesses 'Energy', Sinfonia Viva's latest schools project

Mike Wheeler listens to Cavendish Winds playing Mozart, Danzi, Debussy, Arnold, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Bozza, Ligeti and Gershwin

Mike Wheeler listens to Bizet, Ravel, Debussy, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Sibelius and Walton from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Yan Pascal Tortelier and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to Fauré, Lili Boulanger, Abdelmoula and Debussy from Swiss pianist Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula

Mike Wheeler listens to Schubert and Rachmaninov from Lauren Zhang

Mike Wheeler listens to a talk from Stephen Johnson, and to two works by Vaughan Williams played by John Wilson and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to music for violin and piano by Mozart, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Wieniawski/Gounod and Debussy/Heifetz from Emmanuel Bach and Jennifer Hughes

Mike Wheeler is impressed by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

Alexander Binns plays Messiaen

Mike Wheeler listens to piano duets from Dina Duisen and Martin James Bartlett

Christmas with the Sitwell Singers

Handel from Derby Bach Choir

Lithuanian pianist Ugnius Pauliukonis plays Haydn, Chopin and Debussy

Mike Wheeler listens to guitarist Craig Ogden and friends

Mike Wheeler listens to twentieth-century British music played by Derby Concert Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to Duruflé and Ola Gjeilo from Derby Choral Union and its new musical director Paul Provost

Mike Wheeler listens to Opera North's 'Giulio Cesare'

Mozart, Shostakovich and Beethoven, played by the Artesian String Quartet

Mike Wheeler takes stock of Benjamin Britten's 1948 cantata 'St Nicholas'

Music by Smetana, Martinů and Dvořák from Laura van der Heijden, Pietari Inkinen and the Prague Symphony Orchestra

Anna Tsybuleva plays C P E Bach, Beethoven and Schubert

Opera North's production of Martinů's 'Greek Passion'

Sinfonia Viva is joined by Nottingham Harmonic Choir and vocal soloists for an evening of Sibelius, Mozart, Vasks and Salonen

Mike Wheeler listens to Grieg, Clara Schumann, Kodály and Mozart from Frank Zielhorst and Sinfonia Viva

Mike Wheeler listens to Tchaikovsky and Fauré from the Sitwell Singers

Fabien Gabel conducts the Hallé Orchestra

A cello and violin recital by Katherine Jenkinson and Ning Kam

Mike Wheeler experiences a completely transfixed audience at Chinese-born pianist Ji Liu's recital of music by Stephen Hough, Debussy, Ji Liu, Beethoven, York Bowen and Stravinsky

Mike Wheeler listens to Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Khachaturian from Peter Donohoe and the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yuri Simonov

Mike Wheeler listens to organ music by Leighton, Franck, J S Bach and Henri Mulet, played by Edward Turner at Derby Cathedral

Roger Sayer at the Derby Cathedral organ console

Mike Wheeler listens to J S Bach, Gustav Holst, George Dyson, David Bednall, Edward Bairstow, César Franck, Purcell Mansfield, Judith Weir and Marcel Dupré, played by organist Sachin Gunga

Alexander Binns plays organ music by Alfred Hollins, Harrison Oxley, Reginald Goss-Custard, Maurice Duruflé, Joseph Bonnet and César Franck

In the last of his reports from the 2019 Buxton Festival, Mike Wheeler listens to music by Jean-Féry Rebel, Telemann, Marco Ucellini, J S Bach, and an improvisation on 'La Folìa', played by Improviso

Gillian Moore talks about her book 'The Rite of Spring. The Music of Modernity' and then Philip Moore and Hugh Watkins play Stravinsky's 'Le Sacre du printemps', preceded by John Adams' 'Hallelujah Junction', all

Mike Wheeler listens to an operatic rarity - 'Lucio Papirio Dittatore' by Antonio Caldara

Opera Della Luna's 'Orpheus in the Underworld' at the Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler experiences the pasticcio 'Georgiana' at the Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler reports on the current production of 'Eugene Onegin'

A song recital by James Gaughan and David Hammond

Music for violin and piano by César Franck and Camille Saint-Saëns from Hungarian duo Boglárka György and Brigitta Sveda

Rossini's 'Petite Messe Solennelle' from Derby Bach Choir, Richard Roddis and friends

Mike Wheeler listens to James Curnow, J S Bach, Andrew Downes, Simon Lesley, Randy Newman, Lennon and McCartney, and Irving Berlin from Curzon Brass

Mike Wheeler listens to Beethoven, Brahms, Granados and Mompou, played by Ingrid Cusidó

Mozart, Beethoven, Grieg and Mahler from Benjamin Grosvenor, the Hallé Orchestra and Gergely Madaras

Luca Luciano pushes the boundaries of clarinet playing

Russian-born musicians Yulia Northridge and Ekaterina Shetliffe

Opera North's concert-staged 'Aida'

J S Bach's four orchestral suites played by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment thoroughly impress Mike Wheeler

Alex Binns and Dora Chatzigeorgiou step in with a Derby Cathedral recital, following a sudden last-minute cancellation

Debussy, Bartók and Stravinsky from Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, plus music by Kate Whitley and Eric Satie

Mike Wheeler listens to Rachmaninov and Shostakovich from Daniel Kharitonov, Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Philharmonia Orchestra

Haydn, Glass and Beethoven from the Marmen Quartet

Chris Swann, the strings of Sinfonia Viva and Frank Zielhorst perform Mozart, Arensky, Finzi and Tchaikovsky in a new performance space

Richard Dacey steps down from his post as musical director of Derby Choral Union with a concert of Mozart, Vivaldi and Beethoven

Mike Wheeler listens to 'Lauda Creatoris' by Richard Roddis, plus choral music by Handel, Parry, André Caplet, Alessandro Costantini, Nancy Telfer and Dan Miller

Bach, Copland, Gibbons, Ramsey, Tomkins, Walton, Weelkes and Whitacre from Richard Roddis and the Derwent Singers

Rimsky-Korsakov and Messiaen from Ensemble Mirage

Mike Wheeler listens to Bohuslav Martinů's Fourth Symphony

Janáček's 'Katya Kabanová' from Opera North

Mike Wheeler is impressed by James Brining's production of Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'

Margaret Fingerhut's UK piano recital tour raising awareness of the needs of refugees

Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Sibelius from Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to Lyadov, Stravinsky and Rachmaninov from Derby Concert Orchestra

Mike Wheeler was at Sinfonia Viva's latest schools project

Mike Wheeler listens to Beethoven, Mozart and Rachmaninov from Sasha Grynyuk

Music by Steve Reich

Mike Wheeler is impressed by the Eblana String Trio

Mike Wheeler listens to Mozart, Malcolm Arnold and Lennox Berkeley from Alec Frank-Gemmill and Sinfonia Viva, conducted by Frank Zielhorst

Mike Wheeler listens to Canadian/Romanian pianist Teo Gheorghiu

Mike Wheeler enjoys a concert by Stephen Hough, Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra

Rossini, Monti, J S Bach, Mozart, Handel, Vaughan Williams and Dave Maslanka from the Syzygy Quartet

Mike Wheeler marvels at The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

The Sitwell Singers' Christmas concert

Sarah Beth Briggs and James Lisney in Nottingham

Derby Choral Union at Christmas

Edward Turner conducts Handel's 'Messiah' at Derby Cathedral

Haydn, Bartók and Dvorák from the Zelkova Quartet impress Mike Wheeler

Mike Wheeler listens to the Derby Concert Orchestra

Bach's 'Christmas Oratorio' in Derby Cathedral

Bliss, Elgar and Vaughan Williams from Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Elizabeth Watts, Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Alec Roth, Tallis, Striggio and Gabriel Jackson from Ex Cathedra, conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore

Two concerts from Nicholas Kok and Sinfonia Viva

Mike Wheeler listens to Hong Kong-born pianist Rachel Cheung playing Franck, Schumann and Liszt

Derby Choral Union's Armistice centenary concert

Mike Wheeler praises the remarkably find muscianship of pianist Dominic Degavino

Opera North's staging of Franz Lehár's 'The Merry Widow'

J S Bach, Bernstein and Beethoven from Angela Hewitt, Yutaka Sado and the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra

Brahms, Beethoven and Nikolay Kapustin from Julian Clef

An uppity chicken, a cuckoo and much more ... Stravinsky, J S Bach, Respighi and Mendelssohn from Maddy Aldis-Evans, Benedict Holland, Frank Zielhorst and Sinfonia Viva impress Mike Wheeler

Poulenc, Vaughan Williams and Beethoven from the Derby Concert Orchestra

Beethoven, Turina and Schumann from the Aquinas Trio impress Mike Wheeler

Sinfonia Viva's string section, directed by Benedict Holland, begins the Derby Folk Festival

Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn and Dvorák from Alexander Gavrylyuk, Karl-Heinz Steffens and the Hallé Orchestra

Michael Haynes' organ recital at Derby Cathedral

Mike Wheeler listens to Andy von Oppenkowski's recital as part of the Derby Cathedral organ series

Carleton Etherington's organ recital at Derby Cathedral

Mike Wheeler listens to Brahms, Elgar, Haydn, Parry, Philip Moore, Purcell, Rutter, Stanford and Vivaldi from Derby Cathedral Choir

Mike Wheeler listens to Hugh Morris at Derby Cathedral, beginning this year's summer organ recital series

Lizzie Ball and Morgan Szymanski at the Buxton Festival impress Mike Wheeler

Songs and arias from Jennifer Davis and Caroline Dowdle at the Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler listens to Haydn and Bach from the Emanon Ensemble in Derby Cathedral

Mike Wheeler reports from Buxton on Opera Della Luna's 'The Daughter of the Regiment'

Naples-born clarinettist and composer Luca Luciano

Mozart's 'Idomeneo' at the Buxton Festival

Verdi's 'Alzira' at the Buxton Festival

Marimba duo G-Mizz

Mahler's 'Resurrection' Symphony from Jamie Phillips and the Hallé Orchestra

A song recital by Curran Doherty and Edward Turner

A clarinet and piano recital by Hannah Gobbett and Hugh Morris, entertains Mike Wheeler

Katie Gilbert, Esther Beard and Edward Leung at Derby Cathedral

Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich from Arabella Steinbacher, Michael Sanderling and the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra

A visit from Osnabrück by the Marienkantorei, for Elgar, Rheinberger and Mendelssohn

Haydn and Tchaikovsky Sonatas from Russian pianist Roman Kosyakov

Rossini, Poulenc and Saint-Saëns from Nottingham Harmonic Choir and the Hallé Orchestra

Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Dushkin, Bob Marley, Coleridge-Taylor and Monti from the Kanneh-Mason Trio

A piano recital by Martin James Bartlett

Martin Cousin's piano recital for Derby Chamber Music

The European Union Chamber Orchestra in Nottingham

Stainer, Tavener, Ireland, Matthew Martin and Vaughan Williams from Derby Choral Union

Less well-known music for oboe and piano played by James Turnbull and Libby Burgess

Verdi's 'Un Ballo in Maschera' at Opera North

Frank Zielhorst steps in as Principal Conductor of Sinfonia Viva

Alessandro Talevi's time-travelling, Punch-and-Judy, rock-'n'-roll production of 'Don Giovanni' for Opera North has been back on the road. Mike Wheeler re-visited it in Nottingham

Opera North's 'Madama Butterfly'

Music for choir and saxophone

Beethoven and Tchaikovsky from Pavel Kolesnikov, Vassily Sinaisky and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra impress Mike Wheeler

Derby Concert Orchestra plays Rimsky-Korsakov, Sibelius, Dvorák and Tchaikovsky

Mendelssohn, Brahms and Beethoven from Viviane Hagner, Karina Canellakis and the Hallé Orchestra

A recital by young British-Turkish pianist Lara Melda

Tomáš Netopil steps in to conduct the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Nottingham

Haydn, Britten and Schubert from The Alke String Quartet

Sinfonia Viva's annual schools residency

Vivaldi, J S Bach and Handel from The Sixteen

Dina Duisen plays Beethoven, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Liszt and Nagim Mendygaliev

Vivaldi, Edgar Meyer and Beethoven from Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields impress Mike Wheeler

A piano recital by Colin Stone for Derby Chamber Music

A school production of 'Carmen'

Mark Elder and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain impress Mike Wheeler

The Sitwell Singers' Christmas concert

Handel's 'Messiah' from Derby Choral Union

Derby Concert Orchestra's Christmas Concert

Jeffrey Reid Baker, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Bizet and Rachmaninov from the Cann Twins at Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall

Music for viola and harp from Oliver Wass and Luba Tunnicliffe

Prokofiev, Hummel, Sibelius and Mendelssohn from Clare Hammond, Sinfonia Viva and Duncan Ward, found irresistible

A Celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of Derby Cathedral Girls' Choir

Derby Bach Choir joins forces with Derventio Brass for music by Schütz, Bruckner, Elgar, Walton, Parry, Monteverdi and Rutter

Mike Wheeler listens to music by Aaron Copland, as played by John Wilson and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to music on the theme of Remembrance from the Derwent Singers

Michael Foyle and Maksim Stsura play Beethoven, Franck and Elgar

Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Offenbach and Tchaikovsky from Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Hungarian pianist Daniel Lebhardt plays Schubert, Mozart and Rachmaninov

Bernstein's 'Trouble in Tahiti' and Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Trial by Jury'

Ravel's 'L'Enfant et les Sortilèges' and Janácek's 'Osud'

Opera North's 'Cav and Pag' in Nottingham

Mark Bebbington joins the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Barry Wordsworth for John Ireland's Piano Concerto

Lara Downes plays Coleridge-Taylor, Chopin, Bloch, Bernstein transcriptions and Gershwin

Mendelssohn, Mozart, Judith Weir and Beethoven from Derby Concert Orchestra

Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra at the opening of the Nottingham Royal Concert Hall season

Mike Wheeler listens to Sinfonia Viva's performances of Wagner, Milhaud, Martinu and Copland

Mike Wheeler listens to Dohnányi, Mozart and Brahms from the Rogeri Ensemble

Sinfonia Viva at Derby Folk Festival

London Concertante's first visit to Derby Cathedral disappoints Mike Wheeler

Michael Overbury's Derby Cathedral organ recital

David Davies plays the organ of Derby Cathedral

Jennifer Bate plays the Derby Cathedral organ

Mike Wheeler experiences the first professional opera specifically commissioned in Welsh

Schubert, Barber, Beethoven and Shostakovich from the Brodsky Quartet

Mike Wheeler listens to Schulhoff and Tchaikovsky from members of the Fibonacci Sequence

A recital by Claire Wickes and Tomos Xerri

Wagner, Duparc, Cecilia McDowall and Poulenc from Rachel Nicholls and Paul Plummer

Paul Lewis at the Buxton Festival

Mozart's 'Lucio Silla' at Buxton

Britten's 'Albert Herring' at the Buxton Festival

Verdi's 'Macbeth' at the Buxton Festival

A double bill from Sinfonia Viva and The Lost Boys

Beate Toyka plays Schubert's last piano sonata

Elgar, Grieg and Walton from soloists, Nottingham Harmonic Choir, Rory Macdonald and the Hallé Orchestra

Khachaturian, Rachmaninov, Musorgsky and Shostakovich from Freddy Kempf, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and Yuri Simonov

Members of the Kanneh-Mason family playing at the Belper Arts Festival

Mike Wheeler listens to the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Elgar, Weber, Tchaikovsky and more from Julian Bliss, Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra

Mendelssohn's 'Elijah' from Derby Choral Union and Richard Dacey

Mozart, Shostakovich and Beethoven from the Coull Quartet impress Mike Wheeler

Victoria, Gesualdo, Schütz, J S Bach, Poulenc and Knut Nystedt from cellist Deirdre Bencsik and the Derwent Singers

J S Bach choral music

Mozart, Duncan Ward and Poulenc wind chamber music

Alexei Grynyuk plays Scarlatti, Chopin, Rachmaninov and Schubert

Co-operation between the Sitwell Singers and Derby Chamber Music, featuring music by John Tavener, Bruckner and Beethoven

John Fulljames' visually engaging production of Rimsky-Korsakov's 'The Snow Maiden' at Opera North

Mike Wheeler enjoys Opera North's take on Rossini's 'La Cenerentola'

Mahler, Mendelssohn and Vaughan Williams from Derby Concert Orchestra

Engelbert Humperdinck's 'Hansel and Gretel' at Opera North

Mozart, Enescu, Stravinsky and Brahms from Savitri Grier and Richard Uttley

Mozart, Beethoven and Sibelius from Angela Hewitt, Yutaka Sado and the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra

Ingrid Jacoby plays Ponce, Fauré, Debussy and Musorgsky

Percussionists Owen Gunnell and Oliver Cox

'Mechanical Advantage', Sinfonia Viva's latest Schools Residency

Mike Wheeler listens to the Thorne Trio

Mike Wheeler listens to pianist Ji Liu

Copland, Ravel and Gershwin from Steven Osborne, the Hallé Orchestra and Louis Langrée

Schubert and Liszt from Ian Tindale and Nick Pritchard impress Mike Wheeler

Mike Wheeler listens to Nicholas Collon and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra playing Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony, preceded by Stephen Johnson's illustrated introduction

Mike Wheeler is impressed by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain playing Lauren Marshall, Brett Dean, Szymanowski and Rachmaninov

Piano arrangements played by Jenny Lin

Mike Wheeler listens to music by Will Todd and Nils Lindberg, performed by Derby Choral Union with the Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra

The Sitwell Singers' Christmas Concert

Handel's 'Messiah' from Hugh Morris and Derby Cathedral Choir

Derby Concert Orchestra's Christmas concert

Tchaikovsky, Delius and Brahms from the Villiers String Quartet

Sinfonia Viva and conductor Duncan Ward, with guest soloists Cordelia Williams and Alice Zawadzki, leave a deep impression on Mike Wheeler

Mike Wheeler listens to Dvorák's 'Stabat Mater'

Two Puccini works at Opera North

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Opera North's 'Billy Budd'

Opera North's 'Der Rosenkavalier'

Mozart from Derby Choral Union

Two top guitarists for the price of one

Mike Wheeler listens to Chopin, Debussy, Ligeti, Liszt, Grigory Ginzburg and Scarlatti, played by Isata Kanneh-Mason

Sinfonia Viva and Duncan Ward in Derby Cathedral

Richard Uttley plays Schumann, Chopin and Beethoven

Britten, Korngold and Berlioz from Vilde Frang, Nicholas Collon and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

The Sitwell Singers' fiftieth anniversary concert

Mike Wheeler listens to Stephen Hough, Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra

J S Bach, Shostakovich, Oliver Davis and Brahms from Katherine Jenkinson and Alison Farr

Sinfonia Viva players at Derby Folk Festival impress Mike Wheeler

Beethoven, Guillaume Connesson and Respighi from Stéphane Denève and the Brussels Philharmonic

Nicholas McCarthy plays Reinecke's Sonata for the left hand

Jonathan Scott plays the organ of Derby Cathedral

Peter Gould returns to Derby to give an organ recital

Organ music from Richard Hills

An organ recital by Daniel Gottfried

Peter Eötvös' 'The Golden Dragon'

Baroque music and English string classics from the Northern Chamber Orchestra

Haydn, Bartók and Dvorák from the Chilingirian Quartet

An exploration of the celebration and imitation of national styles

Vivaldi's 'La Sena Festeggiante'

Florieke Beelen, Ensemble 10/10 and Clark Rundell

Mike Wheeler describes Josep-Ramon Olivé and Ben-San Lau's Buxton debut

The Elias Quartet plays at Buxton

Jackie Campbell's piano recital at Buxton

Gemma Lois Summerfield and Sebastian Whybrew at Buxton impress Mike Wheeler

Handel's 'Tamerlano' at Buxton

Bellini's 'I Capuletti e I Montecchi' at the Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler reports on Beethoven at the 2016 Buxton Festival

Handel's 'Israel in Egypt'

Reiko Fujisawa plays Bach's Goldberg Variations

Mike Wheeler was at the culmination of Wagner's 'Ring' in Nottingham

Mike Wheeler listens to Lars Cleveman as Siegfried in Nottingham

Opera North's 'Die Walküre'

'Das Rheingold' at Opera North

Chabrier, Tchaikovsky, Rakhmaninov and Dukas from Alexandra Dariescu, Jamie Phillips and the Hallé Orchestra

Rheinberger and Parry from the Sitwell Singers,

Fabien Gabel and the Royal Philharmonic impress Mike Wheeler

Derby Choral Union's anniversary concert

A Shakespeare celebration

Clare Hammond plays new music by Robert Saxton, plus J S Bach, Beethoven, Szymanowski, Adès and Medtner

Prokofiev from the BBC Philharmonic

Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra commemorate The Battle of the Somme

Rosanna Ter-Berg and Leo Nicholson

Mike Wheeler listens to the Derwent Singers

Mike Wheeler makes special mention of soprano Lisa Cassidy in Derby Bach Choir's Michael Haydn, Mozart and Joseph Haydn

Donizetti's 'L'Elisir d'Amore'

Giordano's 'Andrea Chénier'

Opera North's 'Così fan tutte'

Stravinsky, Sibelius and Shostakovich from Sophie Rosa and Derby Concert Orchestra

The Zelkova String Quartet

Arrangements by Graham Hall

Smetana, Bartók and Dvorák from Augustin Hadelich, Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic

A piano recital by Emmanuel Despax

Andrew Dunlop, Ria Nolan and the Eblana String Trio

Sinfonia Viva's schools residency concert

Mark Bebbington makes a return visit to Nottingham

Haydn, Mozart and Paul Patterson from Adam Mackenzie, Emily Pailthorpe and Sinfonia Viva impress Mike Wheeler

Chamber music from Katherine Jenkinson, Julian Bliss and Alison Farr

Dvorák, Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms from Steven Isserlis, Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields

The Cann Twins

Handel's 'Messiah' in Derby Cathedral

Christmas music from The Sitwell Singers

Derby Concert Orchestra's Christmas concert

Hugh Morris' first choral concert as Master of the Music at Derby Cathedral

Mishka Rushdie Momen plays Chopin

Cipriano de Rore and Hubert Parry from the Derwent Singers

Smetana, Beethoven and Sibelius from Jennifer Pike, Pietari Inkinen and the Prague Symphony Orchestra

Opera North's 'Kiss Me, Kate'

Opera North brings Janácek's 'Jenufa' to Nottingham

Opera North's 'The Barber of Seville'

A recital by Korean pianist Jenna Sung

Mike Wheeler listens to Joo Yeon Sir and Irina Andrievsky

Derby Bach Choir sings Elgar's 'The Dream of Gerontius'

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Mosaic at Derby Cathedral

Berlioz and Tchaikovsky from Lawrence Power, the Hallé Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth

Beethoven, Bartók and Tchaikovsky from the Eeden Quartet

Brahms, Elgar and Beethoven from the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra impress Mike Wheeler

Mike Wheeler listens to most of a piano recital by Ashley Wass

Belinda Sykes and Joglaresa in Nottingham

Sunwook Kim and the Hallé Orchestra play Rachmaninov, and impress Mike Wheeler

Mike Wheeler listens to David Liddle's recital at Derby Cathedral

Psappha at the Buxton Festival

Schumann and Fauré from The Schubert Ensemble

Roderick Williams and Susie Allan at the Buxton Festival impress Mike Wheeler

Catalan pianist Eudald Buch at the Buxton Festival

Spanish and Catalan music from Maria Camahort and friends

Telemann, J S Bach and Handel from Mary Bevan and members of the English Concert

Charpentier's 'Louise'

Mike Wheeler continues his reports from Buxton

Tchaikovsky and Mozart from the English Chamber Orchestra

A recital by Soraya Mafi and Ian Tindale

Verdi's 'Giovanna d'Arco'

Mike Wheeler has some reservations with Donizetti's 'Lucia di Lammermoor' at Buxton

Beethoven, Mozart, Crusell, Françaix and Schubert from members of Sinfonia Viva

Mike Wheeler listens to the Derwent Singers

Tom Redmond's new spoken commentary to Britten's 'Young Person's Guide'

Anniversaries at The VoiceBox in Derby

Noriko Ogawa, the Warsaw Philharmonic and Jacek Kaspszyk

Handel, Haydn and Mozart from Derby Choral Union and the Heart of England Chamber Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to the Czech Philharmonic

Haydn, Sibelius and Beethoven from the Dante Quartet

J S Bach's St Matthew Passion

Opera North's Mozart

Opera North's 'La Vida Breve'

Ingrid Jacoby plays Mozart, Chopin, Brahms and Musorgsky

Mendelssohn, Pärt, Mozart and Beethoven from Samuel Jacobs, Sinfonia Viva and Duncan Ward, all

A cello and piano recital by Jessie Richardson and Simon Callaghan

A seasonal programme from the Derwent Singers

Sophie Rosa plays Brahms' Violin Concerto

Alexandra Soumm joins Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra for music by Ginastera, Lalo, Telemann, Bizet and Ravel

Sinfonia Viva's schools residency project moves Mike Wheeler

Mark Bebbington plays Beethoven, Ireland, Chopin and Gershwin

Christina McMaster plays Debussy, McKenzie, Crawford Seeger, Ives and Beethoven

Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Nielsen from Katherine Watson, Gary Griffiths, Jian Wang, Nikolaj Znaider and the Hallé Orchestra

Clarinettist Julian Bliss joins Andrew Gourlay and Sinfonia Viva

A recital by Agnieszka Kozlowska and Beate Toyka

Dénes Várjon's Nottingham piano recital

Mike Wheeler listens to Stephen Johnson 'discovering music', and to the BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena

Duncan Ward makes his debut as Sinfonia Viva's principal conductor

Derby Choral Union's Christmas Concert

The Sitwell Singers at Christmas

Peter Gould's last 'Messiah' performance as Derby Cathedral's Master of the Music

Derby Concert Orchestra at Christmas

Haydn, Mozart and Janácek from the Jubilee String Quartet

Monteverdi's 'Coronation of Poppaea'

'La Traviata' at Opera North

Smetana's 'The Bartered Bride'

Mike Wheeler listens to pianist Francesco Piemontesi

A visit from Die Marienkantorei, Osnabrück

Derby Bach Choir's 'Concert for Peace'

Ji Liu plays Bach's Goldberg Variations

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Harry Christophers and The Sixteen on tour

Mike Wheeler listens to the Aquinas Piano Trio

Lyadov and Tchaikovsky from Leticia Moreno, Yuri Temirkanov and the St Petersburg Philharmonic impress Mike Wheeler

The Derwent Singers perform music by Fauré, Tallis, Byrd, Gabrieli, Eric Whitacre and John Rutter

Mike Wheeler listens to Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra and to the NAC Wind Quintet

A wide-ranging programme from Christopher Stripp and Lucy Colquhoun

Brahms, Wagner and Sibelius from Nottingham

Brahms in an early music context

Mike Wheeler listens to pianist Antony Peebles

Peter Gould's last full-scale organ recital as Master of the Music at Derby Cathedral

John Scott at the organ of Derby Cathedral delights Mike Wheeler

Cathedral organ high jinks from Peter Gould, Tom Corfield, Christopher Johns, Sachin Gunga and Ben Bloor

Fawzi Haimor conducts Sinfonia Viva

H K Gruber's 'Gloria - A Pigtale'

Robert Quinney at the organ of Derby Cathedral

Rossini's 'Otello'

The Innovation Chamber Ensemble at Buxton

A devastatingly fresh take on 'Orfeo ed Eurydice'

Organist Roy Massey visits Derby Cathedral

Buxton Festival's 2014 Opera Gala

Dvorák's 'The Jacobin'

Mozart, Judith Weir and Ravel from the Lawson Trio at Buxton

Nigel Ogden begins Derby Cathedral's series of summer organ recitals

Cristian Mandeal conducts the Hallé Orchestra

Mahler's Ninth Symphony from Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra

Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov and Britten from Natalie Clein, the Moscow Philharmonic and Yuri Simonov

Sibelius, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky from the Philharmonia Orchestra impress Mike Wheeler

J S Bach's St John Passion in Derby Cathedral

Mike Wheeler listens to Andrew Dunlop and the Eblana String Trio

Mike Wheeler comes face to face with Orff's Carmina Burana

Górecki, Chilcott, Thompson and Bernstein from Malcolm Goldring and the Sitwell Singers

Verdi's Requiem

Mike Wheeler listens to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

A piano recital by Robert Thompson

Opera North's 'From Paris with Love'

Brahms, Dvorák and Rimsky-Korsakov from the Derby Concert Orchestra

Mike Wheeler was at Opera North's Verdi Macbeth

The Piatti String Quartet

The Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra

Sinfonia Viva's annual schools' residency

Mike Wheeler listens to Italian pianist Leonora Armellini

A recital by Jong-Gyung Park

Holst, Mozart and Sibelius from Tasmin Little and the European Union Chamber Orchestra

Sibelius and Mendelssohn from Nottingham Harmonic Choir

John Wilson conducts the CBSO

Mike Wheeler listens to Sarah Beth Briggs

Mike Wheeler listens to saxophonist Anthony Brown

Derby Choral Union's Messiah

Mike Wheeler listens to a classy concert from the Sitwell Singers

Mike Wheeler listens to Kazakhstan-born pianist Samson Tsoy

Christmas music from Derby Concert Orchestra

Britten's 'Death in Venice'

More Britten, with Finzi and Holst, from Derby Bach Choir

A new departure for Derby's Assembly Rooms

Markus Stenz conducts the Hallé Orchestra

More Britten from Paul Daniel and the BBC Philharmonic

Opera North's Britten celebrations

British music from Derby Choral Union, including Britten's 'Rejoice in the Lamb'

Clare Hammond plays in Nottingham

Two choirs join forces to celebrate the Britten anniversary

A wide-ranging recital by Janey Miller and Susie Summers

Mike Wheeler discovers the Heath Quartet

Dan Miller and Richard Hodges at Derby's Festival of Britten

Viennese classics from the Derby Concert Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to Israeli pianist Ishay Shaer

Henning Kraggerud and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra with Stéphane Denève

Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic impress Mike Wheeler

Andrei Korobeinikov and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Moscow, conducted by Nikolay Vinokurov

Eloisa-Fleur Thom and Mark Austin

Sunkwook Kim, Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra in Nottingham impress Mike Wheeler

Katherine Jenkinson and Ning Kam open Derby Chamber Music's new season

Peter Gould provides a compelling end to Derby Cathedral's summer organ series

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Ben Bloor's command of the Derby Cathedral organ

An organ recital by John Kitchen

A Sciarrino and Maxwell Davies double bill from Music Theatre Wales

Ravel for piano duet

A short double bill from Buxton's Young Artists programme

Paul Kildea discusses work on his recent book about Britten

Andrew Kirk at the organ of Derby Cathedral

Mike Wheeler returns to Buxton for Vivaldi's 'Ottone in Villa'

Organist David Pipe at Derby Cathedral

Mike Wheeler experiences Mozart's 'La Finta Giardiniera' at Buxton

French comedies launch the Buxton Festival

Five organists at two organs open this year's series of Derby Cathedral organ recitals

Mendelssohn and Beethoven from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra thrilled Mike Wheeler

Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 in Derby Cathedral

Grieg and Sibelius from John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic impress Mike Wheeler

Nikolaj Znaider conducts the Hallé Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to the Mavron Quartet

Mike Wheeler drops in on the City of London Sinfonia's Fauré Requiem tour

Alexander Romanovsky joins Cristian Mandeal and the Hallé Orchestra

J S Bach's B minor Mass, heard in Derby Cathedral

Richard Uttley plays Beethoven, Grieg, Britten, Bartók, Debussy, Timothy Jackson, Liszt and Schumann

Smetana, Beethoven and Dvořák from The Czech Philharmonic

Sibelius and Elgar from Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra

Mike Wheeler was at Opera North's 'Otello'

Gergely Madaras conducts Sinfonia Viva

Sinfonia Viva's latest schools residency project

Derby Bach Choir's St John Passion

Purcell and Poulenc from Opera North

Handel, Elgar and Mahler

Mike Wheeler listens to the Eblana String Trio and pianist Andrew Dunlop

A piano recital by Richard Uttley

Yutaka Sado and the BBC Philharmonic

Mike Wheeler listens to Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen

Music for saxophone and piano played by Huw Wiggin and James Sherlock

Garry Walker conducts Sinfonia Viva

Mike Wheeler listens to the European Union Chamber Orchestra

French-Canadian pianist Louise Bessette

Derby Concert Orchestra's Christmas concert

Derby Cathedral Choir's Handel 'Messiah'

Musica Donum Dei's 'Handel and Other Visitors to London'

Gounod's 'Faust'

Mozart's 'Don Giovanni' entertains Mike Wheeler

Janácek's 'The Makropoulos Case'

Derby Bach Choir sings Haydn, Vivaldi and Beethoven

Benjamin Ellin, Elgar, Grieg, Dvorák and Janácek from Mark Elder, Jamie Phillips and the Hallé Orchestra

Mozart, Saint-Saëns and Dvorák from the Aquinas Piano Trio

Poulenc, Debussy and Puccini from Derby Choral Union

Chinese pianist Di Xiao

Matthew Coorey conducts Sinfonia Viva

Mike Wheeler listens to the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra

Soprano Catrin Woodruff joins the Derby Concert Orchestra

Jenny Lin at Notttingham's Royal Concert Hall

Jonathan Dormand and Marisa Gupta's Fauré, Brahms and Prokofiev impress Mike Wheeler

The St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra

Mozart's Requiem from the Sitwell Singers

The Hallé Orchestra begins celebrating its ten year residency in Nottingham

Jong-Gyung Park at Derby Chamber Music

Tom Corfield gives ths last of this summer's Derby Cathedral summer organ recitals

A recital by organist Steven Grahl

D'Arcy Trinkwon at the organ of Derby Cathedral

Martyn Rawles at the organ of Derby Cathedral

Britten's 'The Turn of the Screw'

Mike Wheeler listens to Daniel Moult at the organ of Derby Cathedral

A Sibelius and Rimsky-Korsakov double bill

Handel's 'Jephtha' at Buxton

Mike Wheeler visits the Buxton Festival

Jane Watts launches Derby Cathedral's series of summer organ recitals

Italian baroque choral music

Sinfonia Viva's schools residency project

Nigel Kennedy with the Royal Philharmonic and Andrew Litton

Andrew Gourlay and the Hallé Orchestra

Derby Cathedral Choir marks the royal jubilee

Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra

Alexander Liebreich conducts the Berlin Symphony Orchestra

Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic

Nicholas Collon conducts Sinfonia Viva

Haydn, Shostakovich and Schubert from the Allegri Quartet

Mendelssohn, Mozart and Vivaldi from Derby Choral Union

Handel, Haydn, Delius and Mozart from the European Union Chamber Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to the Richard Roddis Singers on tour

J S Bach's 'St John Passion' at Derby Cathedral

Holst, Howells, Finzi and Liszt from the Derwent Singers

Mike Wheeler was at André de Ridder's last concert as Principal Conductor of Sinfonia Viva

Bach's St Mark Passion in a new English translation

Rob Buckland joins Jonathan Trout and Derby Concert Orchestra for Borodin, Glazunov, Piazzolla and Rachmaninov

Beethoven, Cecilia McDowall and Schumann from the English Piano Trio

Lassus, Gesualdo, Purcell, Byrd, J S Bach, Bruckner, Brahms and Tucapský from the Sitwell Singers

Sinfonia Viva contributes to the UK's 'Music Nation'

Bellini's 'Norma'

Handel's 'Giulio Cesare'

A recital by Lara Melda

Wagner, Bruch and Elgar in Nottingham

Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Ysaÿe from the Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to pianist Helen Reid

Stephen Hough joins Marin Alsop and the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Redwood, Shostakovich, Janácek and Mozart from André de Ridder and Sinfonia Viva

Eisler, Gershwin, Mozart, Poulenc, Schumann and Weill from Katie Bray and William Vann

Mike Wheeler listens to Venetian pianist Alessandro Taverna

Handel's 'Messiah' from Derby Choral Union

Familiar and unfamiliar music from The Sitwell Singers

Derby Concert Orchestra celebrates Christmas

Mike Wheeler listens to Ensemble Viva play Schumann, Mendelssohn and Beethoven

The Piatti String Quartet

Derby Bach Choir's Christmas concert

Alexander Romanovsky plays Haydn and Rachmaninov

Jongen, Dukas, Fauré, Respighi and Messiaen from Jonathan Scott, Cristian Mandeal and the Hallé Orchestra

Elgar and Duruflé with a surprise soloist

The Eblana String Trio and David Curington at Derby Chamber Music

Will Todd's 'Mass in Blue'

Mozart and Shostakovich from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Tchaikovsky's 'The Queen of Spades'

James Baillieu plays Beethoven, Schumann, Gottschalk and Paganini via Liszt

The Hallé Orchestra plays Schubert, Dvorák and Beethoven

A piano recital by Richard Uttley

A mainly classical programme from Derby Concert Orchestra

Derby Cathedral Choir celebrates the anniversary of William Boyce

A visit from the Moscow Philharmonic

Mike Wheeler listens to Suk, Dvorák, Ravel and Debussy from the Hallé Orchestra in Nottingham

Enikö Magyar and Timothy End launch Derby Chamber Music's new season, and impress Mike Wheeler

Peter Litman plays the organs of Derby Cathedral

Mark-Anthony Turnage's 'Greek' at the Buxton Festival

Recitals on the organ at Derby Cathedral by Andrew Dewar, David Briggs and Anthony Hammond

Timothy Byram-Wigfield plays the organ at Derby Cathedral

More from the Buxton Festival

Hans Hielscher at the organ of Derby Cathedral

Donizetti's 'Maria di Rohan' at the Buxton Festival

Hannah Yip's Derby Cathedral recital

Sinfonia Viva's summer schools' residency project

The Royal Philharmonic's Gershwin celebration in Nottingham

Mike Wheeler was at Opera North's 'Fidelio'

Janácek's 'From the House of the Dead'

Rory Macdonald conducts the Hallé Orchestra

Alexei Stepanov conducts the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra

Alison Balsom plays Hummel's Trumpet Concerto

Bach's 'St John Passion' from the Richard Roddis Singers

Mike Wheeler listens to Derby Choral Union

The Rivoli String Quartet

Mike Wheeler listens to the Hallé Orchestra in Liszt, Schumann and Brahms

The Derby Roundhouse debut as a concert hall

Lisa Friend and Mark Kinkaid in recital

Mike Wheeler listens to Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakov and Khachaturian from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Brahms and Stanford from The Sitwell Singers

Mike Wheeler listens to António Teixeira's Te Deum

Stephen Kovacevich plays Beethoven, Schumann and Bach

Mike Wheeler listens to Lucille Burns and Catherine Milledge

Mahler, Weber and Strauss at Derby Cathedral

Outreach work for Sinfonia Viva

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra plays Adams, Bernstein, Falla and Gershwin

Mieczyslaw Weinberg's 'The Portrait' at Opera North

Mike Wheeler listens to the Czech National Symphony Orchestra

The London Mozart Trio

Alexandra Dariescu plays Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin and Constantin Silvestri

Opera North's 'Carmen'

Mike Wheeler was at the Annual Conference of the Association of British Orchestras

Sinfonia Viva's performance at the 2011 Association of British Orchestras conference

The Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra

Nicola Benedetti and the European Union Chamber Orchestra

Haydn, Shostakovich and Beethoven from The Aves Quartet

Spanish pianist Javier Perianes plays Schubert, Chopin, Debussy and Falla

A Christmas offering from Derby Choral Union

Mike Wheeler listens to a reconstructed cantata by Neil Garland

Mike Wheeler listens to Handel's 'Messiah' from Derby Cathedral

Christmas music from the Sitwell Singers

A recital by Michael Ierace

Mike Wheeler listens to Voices and the Derby Concert Orchestra

Benjamin Frith saves the day

Haydn's Creation

Mozart, Schubert and Weill

Derby Choral Union's Mozart Requiem

Britten's 'The Turn of the Screw'

Ensembles from the Royal Northern College of Music

The Derwent Singers

A recital by Lars Vogt

Richard Roddis and Beate Toyka perform Robert Schumann

The Sitwell Singers begin a new season

Mike Wheeler listens to a piano recital by Cordelia Williams

Music-making by Natalie Clein and Sinfonia Viva

More from the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra

A recital by Soojin Han and Tadashi Imai

Mike Wheeler listens to James Rippingale, Jonathan Trout and the Derby Concert Orchestra

Alena Baeva, Terje Mikkelsen and The Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio

Bax, Chopin and Prokofiev from Artur Pizarro, Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra

Bizet, Richard Strauss and Vaughan Williams from Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra

Bobby Chen launches Derby Chamber Music's new season

Tom Corfield plays Whitlock, Howells, Messiaen, Bach and Peeters

Peter Gould at the organ of Derby Cathedral

Daniel Hyde at the organ of Derby Cathedral

Francis Jackson plays the organ of Derby Cathedral

Sinfonia Viva at the Buxton Festival

'The Barber of Baghdad' by Peter Cornelius

A Bernstein double bill at Buxton

A recital by Stephen Disley

Richard Rodney Bennett's 'All the King's Men'

David Fanshawe's 'African Sanctus'

George Benjamin's 'Into the Little Hill'

Verdi's 'Luisa Miller' at the Buxton Festival

Opera North's 'Rusalka'

Donizetti's 'Maria Stuarda' at Opera North

Sinfonia Viva's summer schools project, 'Floratorio'

The Hallé Orchestra ends Nottingham's orchestral season

Spanish music from the Hallé Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to Pinchas Zukerman and the Royal Philharmonic

An evening with the Northern Sinfonia and friends delights Mike Wheeler

Nicholas Kok conducts Sinfonia Viva

Helen Cha plays John Mackenzie, Bach, Haydn and Chopin

Derby Chamber Music ends its season on a high

Choral music by Rossini, Elgar and Handel

Britten's 'The Company of Heaven' and Renaissance Polyphony

Haydn, Poulenc, Szymanowski and Walton, sung by Derby Bach Choir and the girl choristers of Derby Cathedral

Sinfonia Viva plays Beethoven, Anna Meredith, Nico Muhly, Ravel and Schumann

Music by Antonín Tucapský, Petr Eben and Vaughan Williams

Mike Wheeler listens to the Bergen Philharmonic

Derby Grammar School and High School Choral Society

Sinfonia Viva's schools residency concert

Horn trios by Lennox Berkeley, Jeremy Thurlow and Haydn impress Mike Wheeler

Opera North's 'Ruddigore'

Derby Concert Orchestra's sixtieth birthday

Beate Toyka and Thomas Solzbacher celebrate Chopin

The Isolani Quartet

Petrenko conducts the RLPO

Ilya Gringolts, Sinfonia Viva and André de Ridder

Mike Wheeler listens to Markus Stenz and the Hallé in music by Colin Matthews and Mahler

Andris Nelsons conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to the Denner Ensemble

Derby Choral Union performs Handel's 'Messiah'

Derby Concert Orchestra plays film music

Mike Wheeler listens to the Sitwell Singers

The Stanford Quartet plays Mozart, Shostakovich, Borodin and Piazzolla

The Derby Bach Choir joins the 'Sing Hallelujah' project

Sinfonia Viva plays Judith Weir

Mozart's 'Così fan tutte'

Massenet's 'Werther'

A concert by the Derby Bach Choir

Mike Wheeler experiences Janácek's 'The excursions of Mr Broucek'

Music on the theme of angels

A concert by the Polish National Radio Symphony

A recital by Helen Reid

Mike Wheeler listens to Stephen Johnson and the BBC Philharmonic

Mike Wheeler listens to the Atrium Quartet

Mendelssohn, Haydn and Beethoven from the Derby Concert Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra

Music by Dvorák, Rachmaninov and Sibelius from Sergio Tiempo, Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra

Derby Cathedral Choir celebrates four composer anniversaries

A recital for oboe and harp

Elgar, Rachmaninov and Sibelius from the Hallé Orchestra

A recital by harpist Anneleen Lenaerts

Mike Wheeler was at a song recital by Richard Roddis and Philip Robinson

Paul Hale provides a fitting end to Derby Cathedral's summer organ series, and Mike Wheeler was there

Tom Corfield plays the organ of Derby Cathedral

Peter Gould helps celebrate the seventieth anniversary of Derby Cathedral's Compton Organ, as noted

Members of Psappha at the Buxton Festival

An organ recital by Ian Tracey

York Minster's Robert Sharpe plays the organ at Derby Cathedral

Mike Wheeler listens to Peter Williams at the organ of Derby Cathedral

'The Lighthouse' by Peter Maxwell Davies

Mike Wheeler is delighted to be surprised by Donizetti's 'Lucrezia Borgia'

André Messager's 'Véronique' delights Mike Wheeler

Sinfonia Viva at the Buxton Festival

Mike Wheeler listens to organist Matthew Owens at Derby Cathedral

Thomas May's 'The John Adams Reader'

Thomas Trotter at the organ of Derby Cathedral

Verdi's Requiem from Derby Bach Choir

'The Fragile Shell' amazes Mike Wheeler

Verdi's 'Don Carlos'

Purcell and MacMillan from The Sixteen

Shostakovich's operetta 'Moskva, Cheryomushki'

Opera North's 'Abduction from the Seraglio'

Mike Wheeler listens to Horses Brawl

Mike Wheeler listens to the Prague Symphony Orchestra

A new partnership between Charles Dutoit and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Mendelssohn and Kurt Weill from Sinfonia Viva, with no complaints from Mike Wheeler

Music from the Richard Roddis Singers and the Helix Ensemble

Mendelssohn, Haydn and Shostakovich from the Navarra Quartet

Haydn, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky from Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to a new work by Richard Roddis

Mike Wheeler listens to Haydn, Sibelius and Mendelssohn played by the Hallé Orchestra

Music for voices and brass

Sacha Grynyuk plays for Derby Chamber Music

Elizabeth Watts and Derby Choral Union

Glinka, Tchaikovsky and Schubert from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Mahler's Symphony No 2 in Derby Cathedral

Brahms' German Requiem, sung by the Derwent Singers

Lothar Zagrosek conducts the Konzerthausorchester, Berlin

An evening long retelling of the 'Romeo and Juliet' story

Music by Fauré and Poulenc

Music by Bach, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, Mozart and Wagner, played by Sinfonia Viva

The early music ensemble Concert Royal celebrates the Purcell anniversary

Leila Josefowicz and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Nottingham

Karis Stretton plays Messiaen

Haydn, Dvorák and Lawrie Rose from the Iuventus Quartet

Sinfonia Viva begins its Mendelssohn celebrations

Christmas music from the Sitwell Singers

Derby Cathedral Choir's performance of Handel's 'Messiah' invigorates Mike Wheeler

The Aquinas Trio plays Haydn, Ravel and Saint-Saëns

Mike Wheeler sits through film scores and Christmas music

Fauré, Bliss, Brahms and Weber played by the Frith Piano Quartet

The Derby Bach Choir begins its 50th anniversary celebrations

Wagner, Mozart and Schubert from Julian Bliss, Andreas Reiner and the Munich KlangVerwaltung

Bellini's 'I Capuleti e i Montecchi'

Ruth Palmer plays the Barber Violin Concerto

A concert by Zephyr

Holst and Vaughan Williams from Nottingham

Beethoven, Stravinsky and Weber from The Hallé Orchestra

Uri Caine meets Sinfonia Viva, and Mike Wheeler listens

Byrd, Vaughan Williams, Parry and Elgar from the Sitwell Singers

Matthew Moss sings British music

Freddy Kempf and the Moscow Philharmonic

Tim Lowe plays Haydn

Eleftheria Kotzia returns to Derby, and Mike Wheeler listens

A recital by Victoria Simonsen and Simon Lane

Beethoven and Tchaikovsky from Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Gareth Green gives the final organ recital in Derby Cathedral's summer series, and Mike Wheeler was in the audience

Mike Wheeler listens to The Midas Touch Organ Duo

Mike Wheeler enjoys Timothy Noon's recital of Bach, Bohm, Dubois, Messiaen and Widor

An organ recital by Martin Neary

Cathy Lamb at the organ

Mike Wheeler enjoys a multi-player organ recital

Contemporary opera at the Buxton Festival

Albert Lortzing's 'Der Wildschütz'

Sinfonia Viva at the Buxton Festival

Jonathan Scott plays the organ of Derby Cathedral

Naji Hakim begins the Derby Cathedral summer organ recital series

Derbyshire celebrates an important sixteenth century figure

Celebrations in Derby

Verdi's 'Macbeth'

Mike Wheeler listens to Britten's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

Gounod's 'Roméo et Juliette'

Mike Wheeler finds Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra a joy to hear

The Russian State Symphony Orchestra plays Musorgsky, Prokofiev and Rakhmaninov

Beate Toyka plays Grieg's piano concerto

Mahler and Mozart in Nottingham

Dvorák and Brahms from Derby

Mike Wheeler listens to tenor saxophonists Don Weller and Bobby Wellins, backed by a rhythm section and a string quartet from Sinfonia Viva

Violinist Jack Liebeck makes a short-notice appearance with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Haydn, Beethoven and Judith Weir from Sinfonia Viva

A recital by the Tippett Quartet

Mike Wheeler listens to Alban Gerhardt, Rory Macdonald and the Hallé Orchestra

John Wilson conducts the Hallé Orchestra

English vocal and instrumental music from Musica Mundi

The first concert by Malcolm Goldring and the Sitwell Singers

Bach's St John Passion from Derby

Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic on tour impress Mike Wheeler

Rossini, Schubert and Beethoven from the Derby Concert Orchestra

More from Sinfonia Viva's school and college residency project

Bach's St Matthew Passion from Derby Cathedral

Music and dance on the theme of creation

Nicola Meecham plays Haydn, Schubert, Ravel, Prokofiev and Gershwin

Schumann and Strauss from Sinfonia Viva

A concert by the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra

A song recital by Richard Roddis and Clive Pollard

Mike Wheeler catches up with a touring production of 'La Traviata'

Mike Wheeler enjoys Jonathan Dove's opera 'The Adventures of Pinocchio'

Mike Wheeler listens to Natalie Clein and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

A concert by the Roberts Quartet

Mike Wheeler joins the Hallé Orchestra's 150th birthday celebrations

Dvorák, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky from the Burlington Piano Trio

Derby Bach Choir's cathedral Christmas presentation

Mike Wheeler listens to The Sitwell Singers

A Christmas programme from Derby Cathedral Choir

Choral music by Britten and Finzi from the Derwent Singers

A festive concert from the Derby Concert Orchestra

Alexander Shelley at Sinfonia Viva's helm

Sarah Connolly and the Hallé Orchestra

Mike Wheeler draws attention to the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra

Tchaikovsky, Janácek and Schubert from the Iuventus Quartet

Mike Wheeler enjoys a performance of the Monteverdi Vespers

Mike Wheeler is impressed by Sibelius, Bach and Smetana from Pietari Inkinen and the CBSO

Music for flute, viola and harp from The Wakeford Ensemble

Jeremy Hagan and the Derby Concert Orchestra

Mike Wheeler listens to a recital by the Adelfi Duo

The Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio on tour

Julian Bliss, Nicholas Kok and Sinfonia Viva in Nottingham

Orchestral music by Toru Takemitsu. '... meticulous care for detail ...'

A recital by cellist Tim Hugh

Sarah Connolly, The Hallé Orchestra and Mark Elder visit Derby, and Mike Wheeler was in the audience

Mike Wheeler listens to the last of Derby Cathedral's 2007 summer organ recitals

Jennifer Koh plays Szymanowski, Martinu and Bartók

Mike Wheeler attends summer organ recitals by Tom Corfield and Johan Hermans

Mike Wheeler makes a final visit to the Buxton Festival for Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro'

Malcolm Archer at the organ of Derby Cathedral

Mike Wheeler returns to the Buxton Festival to hear members of Sinfonia Viva

Music Theatre Wales presents Philippe Boesmans' 'Julie'

Organist Peter Gould joins forces with The Swingle Singers

Tobias and the Angel

The Armonico Consort at the Buxton Festival

Ashley Grote opens Derby Cathedral's series of summer organ recitals

The Derby Bach Choir sings HMS Pinafore

A Stravinsky and Purcell double bill at Opera North

Summer with The Derwent Singers

Janácek's 'Katya Kabanová'

The Hallé Orchestra plays Colin Matthews, Debussy, Poulenc and Tchaikovsky

The Czech National Symphony on tour

Edmund Battersby plays Beethoven on piano and fortepiano. '... it's fascinating to hear the two side-by-side ...'

Machaut, O'Regan and Brumel from The Orlando Consort and Viva Voce

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

A concert by Sinfonia Viva

A concert by the wind players of Ensemble 360 ends Derby Chamber Music's 2006-7 season and satisfies Mike Wheeler

Elgar's 'The Music Makers' in Derby Cathedral

Sondheim's 'Merrily we roll along'

Music by Trevor Hold, Elgar, Parry, Stanford, Delius and Vivaldi from the Derwent Singers

Sakari Oramo and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra play Mahler

A concert by the Elias Quartet

Derby Bach Choir's performance of Handel's 'Messiah'

A concert by the Philharmonia of the Nations

Kala Ramnath and friends meet Sinfonia Viva

Masterpieces from the Austro-Germanic symphonic repertoire played by Derby Concert Orchestra

A performance of J S Bach's 'St John Passion'

Performances of 'The Magic Flute' and 'Orfeo' from Opera North

A concert by the European Union Chamber Orchestra

Opera North's 'The Elixir of Love'

Sharona Joshua plays a copy of an early piano

Handel's 'Messiah' from The Sitwell Singers

The Moscow State Symphony Orchestra visits Nottingham

A performance by Christian Knapp and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

The Hallé Orchestra plays Elgar and Wagner

A recital by Katherine Jenkinson and Alison Farr

A Christmas concert by the vocal ensemble 'Aitone'

Emile de Roubaix and the Maraini Quartet play Mozart, Szymanowski and Brahms

The Sitwell Singers' Christmas concert

The Derby Concert Orchestra and Chorale in Christmas mood

Music by Haydn, Karl Jenkins and Vaughan Williams

The Munich Symphony Orchestra on tour

Ashley Wass in Derby

Derby Bach Choir makes its contribution to the Mozart anniversary

André de Ridder and Sinfonia Viva

Another take on Opera North's 'Peter Grimes'

Verdi's 'Rigoletto' from Opera North

The Czech Philharmonic on tour

An eclectic programme by Sinfonia Viva

The Coull Quartet plays Haydn, Shostakovich and Beethoven

Alina Pogostkina with Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra

Igor Tchetuev plays Tchaikovsky

Andreas Boyde's recent Derby recital

Derby Cathedral Choir sings Mozart

A concert by Stephen Hough, Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra delighted Mike Wheeler

Arthur Honegger's 'Le Roi David'

Robert Manning, David Johnson and Tom Corfield share an organ recital at Derby Cathedral

Peter Gould at the organ of Derby Cathedral

Marcus Huxley played at Derby Cathedral, and Mike Wheeler was there

An organ recital by Malcolm Riley

Mike Wheeler reports from the Buxton Festival

An organ recital by Andrew Nethsingha

An organ recital by John Keys

A concert by the Derwent Singers

The Sitwell Singers celebrate a 40th anniversary

Bach, Arnold and Haydn from Sinfonia Viva in Derby

The Budapest Symphony Orchestra on tour in the UK

Stephen Sondheim's 'Into the Woods'

Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms from the Navarra Quartet and Simon Lane

Kurt Weill's 'Arms and the Cow'

Nicholas Kok's last concert as Principal Conductor of Sinfonia Viva

Venetian Baroque music from The Derbyshire Singers

Passiontide music sung by the Derwent Singers

A recital by Althea Ifeka and Katherine May

Emma Kirkby and the Derby Choral Union

The Russian State Philharmonic in Derby

A performance of Elgar's 'The Dream of Gerontius'

Matthew Coorey and the RLPO in Derby

A piano recital by Jane Ford

Mahler, Schumann and Britten

Bizet's 'The Pearl Fishers'

Music on the theme of journeys

A concert performance of Strauss's 'Salomé'

The Denali Piano Trio

A concert by the Sitwell Singers

'Messiah' in Derby Cathedral

Christmas and other music by Lutoslawski

Carols from Derby Cathedral

The Tempest Saxophone Quartet in concert

Derby Concert Orchestra plays Maxwell Davies

Elgar, Brahms and Strauss in Derby

A performance of Handel's 'Solomon'

Twentieth-century British music, sung by Derby Choral Union

A recital by Fiona McNaught and Daniel Tong

The Derwent Singers and Sinfonia Chorale

Julian Bliss and Sinfonia Viva in Derby

A concert by The Quince Quartet

Sinfonia ViVA at Derby's Guildhall

Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven in Littleover

English Touring Opera visits Derby

A concert by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

The first public appearance of a new chamber choir

A recital by Harriet Adie and Jessica Burroughs

The Hallé Orchestra plays Vaughan Williams in Derby

Greek guitarist Eleftheria Kotzia in Derby

Music by Bartók

Daniel Felsenfeld's book 'Benjamin Britten and Samuel Barber. Their lives and their music'

Mike Wheeler reviews the last of Derby Cathedral's summer organ recitals, given by Tom Corfield

Derby Cathedral organ recitals by Ian Hare, Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin, Peter Gould and Jonathan Gregory, David Briggs, Simon Bell and David Johnson

Articles about Mike Wheeler

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