Live, Video: Kritiken zu klassischen Konzerten, Opern, Ballett und Tanz finden | Grand Études de Paganini, S141 Nr.3 in gis-Moll "La Campanella"

Pietro de Maria ist ein Könner der Agogik und des Rubato, der anhaltenden Applaus wohl verdient hat.

Ein Konzert mit diesem Künstler macht einen sprachlos: ein magerer, bleichgesichtiger Junge, der technisch nicht mehr weit davon entfernt ist, sich mit den Meistern seines Faches messen zu können.

Khatia Buniatishvili gestattete weder sich noch dem Publikum eine Atempause in diesem hamburger Konzert voller fingertechnischer Drahtseilakte.

Dima Slobodeniouk returns to Cleveland for an evening of Romantic era masterworks, and pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii makes a memorable local debut.

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts a premiere of his own work before steering the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra through a dextrous and fascinating performance of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony. 

Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and a prelude from Dame Ethel Smyth's opera The Wreckers are heard for the first time in Singapore. 

Yuja Wang returns to David Hockney’s Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) installation at London's Lightroom for a truly immersive recital. 

Xiaoxuan Li and Eva Gevorgyan, winners of the 2018 Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists, came back to Cleveland for an evening of virtuosic showpieces.

Gergiev and Abduraimov create magic in a dazzling Rachmaninov Rhapsody.

On reaching the second instalment of his Brahms cycle, Vasily Petrenko brings a fresh breath of alpine air to Liverpool, while George Li impresses in Rachmaninov’s ever popular Second Piano Concerto.

Beethoven, Kurth and Grieg under the baton of Michael Stern.

There are not many classical musicians on the international circuit who could achieve the ‘legend’ status; whose concerts would be attended by adoring fans rushing to the stage at the conclusion of the recital, who would be referred to by a nickname, suggesting an ongoing relationship and familiarity with their fans.

Behzod Abduraimov's playing marks the highlight of the CBSO's latest matinee programme. 

Behzod Abduraimov brought his intense and brilliant pianism for his first recital on the main stage of Carnegie Hall

Au vu de sa Campanella, de son Appassionata, il paraît évident qu’Abduraimov est de ces artistes qui pratiquent au plus haut degré une certaine forme de culturisme technique. Culturisme qu’il pare et sublime sous l’animalité de ses lectures : violence féline, spontanéiste, presque iconoclaste mais toujours fascinante.

A journey of emotions with the Munich Philharmonic under Gergiev resplendent in Ravel and Richard Strauss, thought-provoking in Ustvolskaya, and Behzod Abduraimov electrifying in Rachmaninov.

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. 

An evening of contrasts at Wigmore Hall, with the Uzbek pianist tender in Schubert, but too loud in Mussorgsky. 

A starry night at the Hollywood Bowl for Gustavo Dudamel, Alice Sara Ott, Miah Persson, Gerald Finley and the LA Phil to perform Mozart.

Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvilli dazzled and delighted in a highly accomplished performance of music by Mussorgsky and Liszt.