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The Korean pianist gives his first solo recital at the Barbican, focussed around Handel, Brahms and variation form. 

An excellent choice of programming, with Royal Northern Sinfonia and Lars Vogt performing Handel and Brahms, but disappointing in its execution. 

Inon Barnatan performs a meticulously planned recital in New York's 92nd Street Y. 

As one of the featured artists of the ‘Am Piano’ festival in Lucerne, Lise de la Salle brought a poetic weave to the fabric of complex and highly demanding scores. 

The concert, which was part of Mostly Mozart’s “A Little Night Music” series of late-night events, was comprised of six preludes, six canons, and George Benjamin’s 2001 composition Shadowlines, six canonic preludes for the piano that were written for Aimard.

Emanual Ax demonstrated brilliance both as creative innovator and performer, paying homage the pianist's pianist, Johannes Brahms.

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.

Michael Ierace's piano recital last night in Linton, Cambridgeshire was revelatory. That adjective is perhaps devalued through overuse, but this young Australian pianist's playing does indeeed reveal the strong, the beautiful, and the unexpected in music one might believe one already knows.