Obra: Klavierstück IX

The versatile vocalist Sophie Dunér and piano-master Jonathan Powell give first-rate performances at the 1901 Arts Club, the centre-piece of which was Stockhausen's Tierkreis.

Two Beethoven sonatas form the core of Pierre-Laurent Aimard's Berlin recital, laced with extracts from Messiaen's Catalogue d’oiseaux, plus Kurtág and Stockhausen. 

London, along with a large portion of the world, spent most of summer 2012 in awe of an elite group of athletes, cheering on their every move as they undertook a series of arcane but technically demanding tasks in public.