Northern Sinfonia
Gateshead
Saturday October 11
Thomas Zehetmair ends his Beethoven cycle with the Ninth Symphony.

St Petersburg Philharmonic
Leeds
Saturday October 11
Gateshead
Wednesday October 15 & Thursday October 16
Yuri Temirkanov conducts his great orchestra in powerful, crowd-friendly works.

BBC Philharmonic
Manchester
Saturday October 11
Gianandrea Noseda conducts chunks of 19th-century Italian opera interleaved with Respighi's Roman triptych.

Bryn Terfel
Manchester
Tuesday October 14
There's a bit of everything from Schubert to Welsh folk songs in the great bass-baritone's recital.