Sir Simon Rattle conducts the LSO in a double bill at the Barbican on April 19. Photo: Mark McNulty / Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

• Martin Feinstein’s Bach Weekend is back for its annual outing at Kings Place this weekend, starting on April 13 with Bach’s late concertos. Other Bach offerings over the weekend include the complete Brandenburg Concertos, chamber works, arrangements of Vivaldi and cantatas. Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1, 7.30pm, from £9.50 online, 020 7520 1490, www.kingsplace.co.uk

• Multi-faceted jazz musician, trom­bonist, singer and lecturer Malcolm Earle Smith is busy over the next week or so. Firstly, he’s playing with Pete Chapman’s Trio at their Sunday afternoon gig (April 15) at the Princess of Wales, Primrose Hill. Then, next Thursday (April 19), he’s playing with his quartet at the Hampstead Jazz Club.
April 15: Princess of Wales, Chalcott Road, Primrose Hill, 2pm, free
April 19: Hampstead Jazz Club, 23-25 New End, Hampstead, 8pm, £15/students £9, 07548 749 817, nw3jazzlounge.co.uk

• A Proustian salon featuring Beethoven’s late music is being recreated by violinist Chloe Hanslip and Hampstead pianist Danny Driver at Kings Place next Wednesday evening (April 18). The late Beethoven music was much admired by the French writer. Also being played are works by Proust’s contemporaries – Fauré, Debussy and Reynaldo Hahn. Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1, 6.30pm, from £9.50 online, 020 7520 1490, www.kingsplace.co.uk

• The familiar and the new are being contrasted in a superb LSO double-bill conducted by Sir Simon Rattle at the Barbican next Thursday evening (April 19) and again a week later. The familiar is Mahler’s great Ninth Symphony and the new is the premiere of Woven Space by British composer Helen Grime – an LSO/Rattle commission.
Barbican, Silk Street, EC2,7.30pm, 020 7638 8891, www.barbican.org.uk (also Thursday April 26).