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Garrick Ohlsson looks back over a 60-year career in style with a fine recital in Prague's Rudolfinum. 

An extraordinary evening in the Großes Festspielhaus as the pianist draws his audience in for a marathon recital of Berg, Gershwin and Chopin. 

A recital of incomparable but unrelated works became a lengthy attempt to adapt tempi.

In an unusual setting in Baden, the fine pianist Emanuel Ax coupled his exploration of demanding technique with a keen expressive focus, making an unparalleled musical experience.

Driving home after Murray Perahia’s stunning recital at the Barbican last night I found myself thinking: why is he such an extraordinary pianist? Some pianists have an incredible rhythmic sense, some technical wizardry, others a delicate musical sensibility, but rarely are all these and many others qualities combined in one artist. But this was how I was left feeling on that drive home.

A broken crane dangles precariously over 57th Street near Carnegie Hall at the moment. Thankfully for the hall it seems the danger has passed, but rather than cancel this concert along with so many others in New York over the past week, Carnegie delayed the recital from Friday to Sunday and moved it to Avery Fisher Hall.

Bringing to a close this season of Music Up Close concerts, Nikolai Demidenko delighted a packed Haddington Town House with a programme of Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt. The programme opened with two much loved Beethoven works: Piano Sonata in C minor, 'Pathétique' Op. 13 and Piano Sonata in C# minor, 'Moonlight' Op. 27 No. 2.

Le piano orchestral de Clément Lefebvre trouve son plein accomplissement dans Liszt et dans les œuvres de jeunesse de Scriabine en seconde partie, après une première partie moins convaincante dans Debussy et Chopin.

Pour son premier récital en France, la jeune Américaine a proposé un programme très intelligemment construit et interprété, de Mozart à Beethoven en passant par les Impromptus de Chopin entrecoupés de courtes pièces.

À la Philharmonie, Nelson Freire a donné un récital magistral, une leçon d'interprétation, de poésie et de lumière.