It would probably be an exaggeration to suggest that Perth Concert Hall, whose new brochure announces its tenth anniversary season, is pushing the boat out to celebrate its birthday. Such are the budgetary constraints of the era that boats, cultural or otherwise, are unlikely to be permitted to slip their moorings today, far less set out on the high seas of expenditure, face into the breeze and caution to the winds.

None the less, the Fair City’s smashing hall, with its brilliant, flexible and generous acoustic, looks set to have a damned good time in its extended birthday party. Technically, in its classical programme, the hall will fetch out the party poppers next weekend, with two major concerts on Thursday and Friday. But when you look through the entire season’s offerings, there is a sense that the fairy princess of classical music has sprinkled the oofle dust generously on the entire season.

You know those parties that start on a Friday and are still going in the middle of the following week? Not that this ultra-serious old bloke has any experience of such irresponsible adolescent adventures, of course: or none of which I have the faintest recall. Well, I have a funny feeling, perusing the 10th birthday booklet of events, that the spirit of the anniversary celebrations has permeated the classical goody-bag and touched everything within it. Moreover, it strikes me that there is a feeling of classiness this season, right through the programme. And you can see it from the starting post.

Next Thursday night is Nicola Benedetti night with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Is there a more popular piece for Everyman anywhere in the solar system? I doubt it. The programme doesn’t say who her backing band is, but it probably doesn’t matter. They’ll also play another Vivaldi piece, alongside Tchaikovsky’s lovely Souvenirs de Florence and a new piece by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Do not even ask if there are tickets. Long gone.

On Friday there’s a belter of a symphonic concert with the BBC SSO and stellar trumpeter Alison Balsom. She’ll play the Haydn concerto. The band will open with Sibelius’s Finlandia, arguably one of the most rousing, stirring pieces ever written. Then, conducted by Eivind Aadland, they’ll finish with Rachmaninov’s blow-away Second Symphony, last heard in the Perth Hall just about six weeks ago when NYOS and Rory Macdonald played it on the eve of their departure for a tour of China.

But those disappointed at not getting a ticket for Benedetti will have a second bite at the cherry. She’ll be back in Perth in just over a month for a weekend’s residency with her regular chamber music partners, pianist Alexei Grynyuk and cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, now rapidly making a name for himself as a concerto soloist. On Friday October 23, violinist and pianist will take the first recital, to include Beethoven’s amazing Kreutzer Sonata and Brahms’s Second Violin Sonata.

On Saturday 24, at noon, Elschenbroich and Grynyuk will play Cello Sonatas by Beethoven and Rachmaninov. That evening, at 7.30pm, Benedetti will reunite with her compadres, and be joined by BBC SSO principal violist Scott Dickinson in a programme including Brahms’s B major Piano Trio, the greatest piano trio of the period, with unforgettable tunes, and the same composer’s Second Piano Quartet. And on the Sunday afternoon, Benedetti will finish her weekend Perth residency with a coaching session on Vaughan Williams’s Lark Ascending with children from Perth and Kinross, along with youngsters from the Sistema project in Stirling, a project dear to her heart.

So: lots of class and lots of daytime activities. Let’s stay in the diminishing daylight for a cracking, and very classy, lunchtime series of four concerts at 1pm: the electrifying Danish String Quartet playing Carl Nielsen; the inimitable and aristocratic Susan Tomes playing late Beethoven; Nicholas Mulroy, familiar from The Dunedin Consort, singing Schubert’s Winterreise; and the full Dunedin Consort, with its director John Butt and solo violinists Cecilia Bernardini and Huw Daniel, playing all three of Bach’s Violin Concertos in an hour. Did I mention the word “classy”?

Well, there’s more, and yet again in daytime, with the third series of the glorious hall’s Perth Piano Sundays, six 3pm concerts featuring a glittering array of international soloists, with Russian wizard Denis Kozhukhin, Piers Lane, Steven Osborne, Alasdair Beatson, Tom Poster and Paul Lewis. What a line-up. And in the collaborative Perth Concert Series, featuring the three national orchestras bringing two concerts each to Perth Concert Hall from their winter seasons, the Fair City has picked the ripest plums from the tree of conductors, soloists and programmes. It’s a fabulous 10th anniversary programme. All details are in the brochure.