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Robert Murray is the standout performer in a night of waltzes and numbers from operetta.

Imogen Cooper shone in Aurora's serious and fulsome performances of Mozart.

The Manchester Camerata under Alpesh Chouhan and soprano Olena Tokar welcomed the New Year with Johann Strauss favourites, five of Brahms's Hungarian Dances and a selection of arias.

On several occasions when I listened to Brahms’s first piano concerto in concert, I was left wondering whether Brahms really intended the pianist to play with so much physical force.