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The Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra under their Principal Conductor Sebastian Weigle show top-form in Tchaikovsky before their upcoming European tour. 

An evening in which the piano – in some cases two, in others three – took centre-stage with members of the Osokins family.

Drama and poetry prevailed in Chamayou exhausting programme.

Sir Andrew Davis led the BBC SO in a recreation of Sir Malcolm Sargent's 500th Prom, a lengthy programme that failed to inspire.

In guest conductor Ludovic Morlot's first appearance with the Minnesota Orchestra, works by Ravel were paired with a dynamic reading of Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony.

The St Petersburg Philharmonic playing Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony – a work it premiered in 1937 as the Leningrad Philharmonic – was a highlight of a superb concert concluding its UK tour. 

Fifty years on, Argerich is still the legendary tigress of the keyboard, yet more besides.

A few days before, the local newspaper rather hyped this concert - with good reason, as it turns out.

Le pianiste allemand s'est fait la réincarnation du jeune Liszt, rayonnant et solaire, inventeur du piano orchestre, le temps d'un récital irrésistible.

Den glanzvollen Schlusspunkt setzte dann Bartóks virtuoses, rhythmisch komplexes Finale: ein orchestrales Schaustück, welches die Elemente der vorangegangenen Sätze, deren Spielfreude, das Volkstümliche in sich vereinigt.