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The fourth edition of the festival marks the 800th anniversary of the founding of Klosters with a musical journey back in time. 

Brilliant Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi performs Mozart's D minor piano concerto. 

Lahav Shani and Francesco Piemontesi make their debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker in a pair of works infused with springtime. 

Andrey Boreyko’s Blossom Music Center program included Beethoven’s “Emperor” concerto with Francesco Piemontesi and a rare but convincing performance of Zemlinsky’s Die Seejungfrau.

Francesco Piemontesi delivered with enthusiasm a programme of intensely warm Bach, colourful Debussy and turbulent Rachmaninov. 

Francesco Piemontesi performed Brahms’ monumental second concerto with captivating results, followed by Andrew Manze’s carefully considered interpretation of Mozart’s Jupiter symphony in Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall.

Polished but ultimately tepid performances that kept the emotional temperature under wraps despite some fine individual playing and singing.

A long four-movement concerto and a long symphonic work by two close musical friends, given by Pablo Heras-Casado, Francesco Piemontesi and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester.

An overture, a concerto and a symphony by the incomparable Beethoven delivered with heroic commitment by the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Sir Roger Norrington and Francesco Piemontesi.

A stirring account of Elgar’s First Symphony from Sir Mark Elder and the LSO, with a rare outing given to Janáček’s last orchestral work and Francesco Piemontesi polished in Bartók.

Clearly Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla has found her feet with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and isn't afraid to be a bit experimental.

The Czech Philharmonic brings The Epic of Gilgamesh to life with audacity and flair.

Breaking up is hard to do. If his First Symphony is anything to go by, William Walton took it particularly badly.

The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder start their Dvořák festival with a concert demonstrating the glories of his lesser known music including Francesco Piemontesi starring in the Piano Concerto.

Somewhere in the region of 180 singers and instrumentalists faced Andrew Manze as he took the podium at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall. Could he handle them? There was never any doubt.

The maverick Aurora Orchestra returns to the Proms, and doesn't disappoint.

Francesco Piemontesi delivered a most satisfying performance of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto while Lahav Shani made an electrifying impression in pieces by Prokofiev with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Birthday boy Richard Strauss was celebrated again at the Proms with two early works, one an acknowledged masterpiece and the other a problem child, in an odd programme that included works by Mozart and Nielsen from the BBC NOW.

A rare sunny afternoon in Cardiff Bay was the ideal setting for this afternoon’s concert: an all-French programme in the intimate surroundings of the Wales Millennium Centre’s Hoddinott Hall.Having long been overshadowed by the Rite of Spring (which received its premiere two weeks later), Debussy’s ballet Jeux has been unjustly neglected.

Un vibrante concierto con espacio para fantásticas intervenciones solistas que contó además con la presencia del pianista Francesco Piemontesi, quien, con buena compenetración con el director, Iván Fischer, presentó una luminosa versión del concierto de Schumann.

Le pianiste italien s'est fait l'avocat éloquent de deux oeuvres concertantes trop peu jouées : les Variations Symphoniques de César Franck et la Burleske de Richard Strauss.

Francesco Piemontesis Interpretation war betont impulsiv, vorwiegend legato, vorwärtsgerichtet und flüssig, mit Sicherheit und ausgezeichneter Technik, seine Linke gestaltete speziell im Staccato sehr differenziert.

El resultado fue una apasionante y didáctica velada, en cuya primera parte Inbal y un extraordinario Piemontesi, deslumbraron con una interpretación del concierto de Dvořák electrizante.

Le 5 avril marque les débuts de Jérémie Rhorer avec l’Orchestre de Paris. Entre l'Ouverture de « Polyeucte » de Dukas, le Concerto de Schumann joué par Francesco Piemontesi et la quatrième symphonie de Mendelssohn, le chef a l'occasion de faire ses preuves. Un programme haut en couleurs qui se révèle parfaitement maîtrisé !

Concert le 10 novembre de l'Orchestre de la radio de Berlin dans la salle du Berliner Philharmoniker. Sous la prestigieuse direction de Marek Janowsky, un impeccable orchestre propose deux pièces de Hindemith puis accompagne dans le 4° Concerto de Beethoven, le relativement jeune et éminent pianiste, Francesco Piemontesi remplaçant Yefim Bronfman souffrant.

Une bien belle soirée au Victoria Hall qui aura trouvé son sommet dans le concerto pour piano de Brahms, servi impeccablement par Francesco Piemontesi, après quelques errements dans les méandres des fleuves russes.  

« Je ne crois pas qu’il puisse y avoir une fin au renouveau baroque », déclarait encore récemment Ton Koopman, non sans une fierté qu’on ne pourrait qualifier de mal placée.

Jeudi 14 mai, le Philharmonia Orchestra offrait un programme Schumann/Mendelssohn sous la baguette de Jérémie Rhorer, avec Francesco Piemontesi au piano. Une soirée réussie, en particulier grâce à un orchestre au meilleur de sa forme.