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Trotz ungeheurer Energie in manchen Werken, gab es viele Ungereimtheiten in einem gut gemeinten Programm.

Daniel Barenboim interpretierte das Fünfte Klavierkonzert mit dem Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks unter der Leitung von Mariss Jansons in der Münchner Philharmonie.

Eine Hommage an den einflussreichsten Geiger des 20. Jahrhunderts gab Charlie Siem in München mit einem vielseitigen und abwechslungsreichen Miniaturen-Programm.

Lang Lang gives a dramatic, technically brilliant rendition of Grieg’s beloved piano concerto.

Joaquín Achúcarro ofreció en Valladolid un estupendo recital pianístico, en el que ofreció obras de compositores que le han acompañado durante su larga carrera.

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields give exciting performances at the Barbican, with idiosyncratic Mozart from Buniatishvili. 

Dans le cadre intime de La Piccola Scala, le trop méconnu pianiste français a livré un récital renversant, aussi convaincant dans Beethoven que dans Debussy ou dans une création de Fabien Touchard.

A packed house and an anticipatory buzz greet Boris Giltburg in a programme ranging from poetic Chopin to grisly Ravel.

An extraordinary evening in the Großes Festspielhaus as the pianist draws his audience in for a marathon recital of Berg, Gershwin and Chopin. 

Le Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier rayonne bien au-delà de la seule préfecture de l'Hérault, comme le montre ce superbe concert du Quatuor Ellipsos à Villeveyrac.

Expérience sensorielle et émotionnelle rare de reconnaître un thème de jazz connu se glisser dans une harmonie « française » à la couleur plus modale que tonale.

La Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia celebró su tradicional concierto de Navidad con un programa elegido por su público.

Darrell Ang and members of the Singapore Symphony deliver a crystalline Mother Goose Suite and a high-spirited, straight-from-the-orchestra-pit Ibert Divertissement.

The French pianist's account of Ravel's G major concerto is the highlight of a nearly all-French programme under Emmanuel Krivine. 

A most idiosyncratic version of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto from Khatia Buniatishvili along with a notable performance of Sibelius' Second Symphony from the RPO, touring the United States under Mark Wigglesworth. 

In Québec, Fabien Gabel, the OSQ Chorus and Orchestra present two rarely heard psalms while soprano Karina Gauvin brings absolute magic to the music of Ravel and Schmitt.

Tired of looking at the same wallpaper all the time? The London Philharmonic and their conductor Edward Gardner, together with soloist Stephen Hough, offer one way to see (part of) the world.

Nobuyuki Tsujii's debut in the Southbank's International Piano Series proves a mixed success. 

Les Musicales de Croissy invitent le harpiste russe Sacha Boldachev. Un récital saisissant qui nous transporte dans des contrées vertigineuses et parfois encore inexplorées de ce bel instrument.

Excellent performances by James Gaffigan and The Cleveland Orchestra of music by Barber, Mendelssohn, and Sibelius made for an enjoyable summer evening at the Blossom Music Festival. Stephen Hough was an outstanding piano soloist.

The Estonian Festival Orchestra makes its Proms debut in a refreshing Baltic-Nordic programme.

Au piano aux côtés de Renaud Capuçon ou à la baguette face à l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Lahav Shani fait forte impression.

Shimmering images from Debussy in his evocative Images had Stephen Hough oozing luminescence, with passion in Schumann and firing on all cylinders in Beethoven’s “Appassionata”.

What a great composer, and what a great advocate for his genius.

Nikolaj Znaider led The Cleveland Orchestra in two works that shared a key but were otherwise quite disparate: Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with Yefim Bronfman, and Elgar’s Second Symphony.

A four-hour concert featuring piano music by Debussy might seem like an excessive ask, but the Perth Festival filled the venue for this stunning and highly entertaining concert by French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.

Juxtaposing Debussy’s music with opuses by Schumann and Beethoven, Stephen Hough brought forward connection points one wouldn't have thought of.

Inaugurant l'année Debussy en terre toulousaine, Daniel Barenboïm proposait, pour sa première venue à Toulouse dans le cadre de la programmation des Grands Interprètes, un récital entièrement consacré au compositeur et à l'exploration de son œuvre pour piano solo.

Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra are at a distance from performing at their usual top form in their returning concert in Hong Kong.

Tonal finesse, graceful articulation and magical simplicity mattered more than anything else in Yefim Bronfman's version of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto.

Elim Chan's homecoming in an evening of pride and joy with the Hong Kong Phil.

“Wigmore Hall is flooded now!” confessed Philippe Cassard. It was Claude Debussy who left the tap running, with every form of precipitation – rain, snow, fog – pouring from the Steinway's keyboard, trickling from fountain, springing from river beds. 

The RPO play a contrasting programme of two dark symphonies by Sibelius and Tchaikovsky, with the Georgian panist Khatia Buniatishvili as the soloist in the Schumann concerto.

There are few composers for the piano as viscerally exciting as Franz Liszt and there are few pianists today who perform his music with as much visceral excitement as Khatia Buniatishvili. 

Core repertoire from across nearly two centuries formed the basis of a recital programme that forged a link from Bach to Ravel.

Pretty Yende makes a successful New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall with a diverse selection of songs and arias.

Janine Jansen's International Chamber Music Festival offered a special treat this year: scratchcard concert, where a scratchcard determined which concerts one got to see.

As the audience assembled in Roy Thomson Hall on Wednesday, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Members of the orchestra were taking their seats on the stage, getting ready to tune their instruments. However, anyone paying close attention to the setting would have seen a fixture hanging high above the stage.

One would think that either Renée Fleming or Susan Graham alone would be reason enough to sell out a large venue such as Disney Hall. But everything is bigger in Hollywood, and the LA Phil brought both artists together for a one-night recital of French art song. But even that wasn’t enough.

To perform so many of Debussy’s works in one sitting requires a certain amount of skill and understanding. The charismatic pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet opened our eyes to the impressionistic world of Claude Debussy in this special three-part concert for the Cheltenham Music Festival.