The soul of Chopin: Janina Fialkowska at Wigmore Hall

James Gaffigan advised the audience about to hear him conduct Witold Lutosławki’s Piano Concerto to back off like you would from an Impressionist painting, in order to get an impression of the whole. When you do so, it’s a very romantic work. Otherwise, the score resembles ‘a science experiment’ because parts of it are notated without bars and cannot be conducted.

Brahms, Chopin, Beethoven: the programme of he Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's most recent Cadogan Hall concert, under the baton of Fabien Gabel, was unashamedly mainstream. The opening item of the programme was the Brahms Tragic Overture. The opening strident chords managed to be agitated yet pensive, interrupted silence hanging in the air as each note dissipated once more.

Raphaël Pichon al frente del Ensemble Pygmalion ofreció una versión profunda, cálida y detallista de la magnífica obra de Johann Sebastian Bach.

Con Martha Argerich como figura de excepción, la Orchestra della Svizzera italiana ofreció un programa que sacó lo mejor del conjunto.

Programa dedicado a los padres de la música sacra del Renacimiento y al romanticismo de Anton Bruckner, junto a uno de los conjuntos más emblemáticos de la interpretación historicista actual.