Music at Tresanton
Methodist Chapel, St Mawes, 4-6 November
Beethoven spearheads this year’s festival in the handsomely refurbished chapel. Pianist and artistic director Noam Greenberg anchors four concerts and four cellists in a survey of the complete cello sonatas – Adrian Brendel wraps the series up with Op. 102, set alongside music by Adès, Liszt and Frescobaldi.
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Barbican, London, 4, 5 November
Web: barbican.org.uk
After a six-year gap, the Amsterdam ensemble returns for a residency under conductor Daniel Harding. The first concert pairs Brahms’s Violin Concerto – with Leonidas Kavakos as soloist – with Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony. The following night, Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 takes centre