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The marathon chamber concert leg of the Beethoven Day in Budapest's Liszt Academy featured artists such as Miklós Perényi, Dénes Várjon and the Hungarian Quartet.

The two friends dedicate their recital to “the people we've lost”.

The annual Davos Festival offers a platform to gifted young musicians from around the world to explore and exchange musical genres in a stellar alpine landscape.

A (nearly) complete set of Beethoven’s works for cello and piano from the French friends in London. 

A generous programme by Alban Gerhardt and Víkingur Ólafsson saw a tale of two halves, with the classical poise of the first half and the more extrovert showpieces of the second. 

Nicolas Altstaedt and Alexander Lonquich give Beethoven’s cello sonatas a chance to breathe in a thoughtful and accomplished performance of all five at Wigmore Hall.

Phillips and Guy produce a French-accented rendering of three cello sonatas, favouring elegance and crystal clarity over overt romantics.

Despite the stormy turbulence in much of Beethoven's writing, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov allowed the sunlight to flood in, illuminating these spirited scores. 

Philip Higham and Alasdair Beatson performed Beethoven, Schumann, Fauré and Janáček at Haddington's Town House.

Two musicians, pianist and cellist, entered on stage and started playing. After three or four minutes, the cellist stood up and spoke: “Thought that I had forgotten to talk, didn’t you?”Passionate about education, cellist Matthew Barley took the audience at St George’s through Beethoven’s Cello Sonata no. 3 in A major for an evening rush-hour concert after a cello masterclass in the afternoon.