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Irish violinist Mairéad Hickey and French pianist Nathalia Milstein deliver a compelling performance of Mozart, Janáček and Strauss at Bantry House. 

If ever there were an original programme at one of Switzerland’s esteemed summer festivals, this Festivalwanderung was it.

A rapt audience witnessed a very special musical event where superficial differences in musical style and personal presentation counted for nothing with musicianship of the highest order.

Augustin Dumay and Louis Lortie perform three masterpieces of the violin sonata repertoire, redeeming an eccentric performance of Strauss with a thrilling Franck

There were piano arpeggios that could have come from the pen of no other composer

Two titans of classical music present a program of violin sonatas.

The absence of empty showmanship, of any unnecessary gesture in music making, allowed the listeners to fully experience the essence of Young Gi Kim in a recital of violin sonatas.

Another lazy Sunday morning means another quality chamber concert for the Wigmore Hall cognoscenti. This week, their complimentary sherry was served with a cocktail of violin and piano duets, mixing the contrasting flavours of Pärt, Schubert and Richard Strauss, courtesy of child-prodigy-turned-twentysomething virtuoso Chloë Hanslip and established pianist Charles Owen.

Im Schlusssatz stimmten die Gewichte: wo Caroline Widmann die wunderbare Kantilene vom Piano übernahm, ließ ihr Alexander Lonquich selbst in con sordino Passagen genügend Raum – klar der Höhepunkt vor der Pause!

Musik, die vor aufgewühlter Emotion glüht: sehr anspruchsvoll im rhythmischen Zusammenspiel, von beiden Künstlern ausgezeichnet gemeistert.

Wer glaubte, sich für einen entspannten Kammermusikabend gemütlich in seinem Sitz zurücklehnen zu können, der wurde schnell mit einem Brahmsschen Scherzo eines Besseren belehrt.