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Hélène Grimaud's Singapore recital sonorously unites Hans von Bülow’s “three Bs of music” – Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. 

Can a short work be given more meaning than it can bear? Igor Levit plays all twenty of Brahms' late piano solos, before being awarded the Wigmore Medal. 

This was one of those absorbing discovery type recital programmes where links between the composers were both in and between the music. 

Kissin's always stellar recital highlighted by a selection of works from Spain.

With expressive playing of Brahms's miniatures and solid performances of two of Beethoven's late piano sonatas, Paul Lewis' recital in Sydney was musically satisfying if not transcendent.

From the very first bars of Brahms’ Intermezzi Simon Trpčeski thrilled the audience at Southampton's Turner Sims in a performance of Brahms, Ravel and Poulenc.

Edinburgh's Queen's Hall, combining centre stalls with a horseshoe of pews on two levels, boasts a wonderful chamber music acoustic. The attentive Sunday afternoon audience for the SCO Chamber Concert had no difficulty making out every nuance of the small forces present.

When one thinks of the ‘X factor’, it’s fairly certain that the first image that comes to mind is not that of a quiet, unassuming man in his mid-sixties, clad in evening dress.