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Violin dealers J & A Beare celebrate its 130th anniversary in lavish style by bringing together eight of the Cremona luthier’s exceptional instruments for a concert directed by Dutch violinist, Janine Jansen. 

Primordial Icelandic energy in Anna Thorvaldsdottir's premiere was followed by lightness of touch from Kian Soltani in Elgar and thoughtfully commanding Sibelius.

Alsop and the London Philharmonic do full justice to Barber and give Soltani's cello superlative support in Shostakovich, but sound inappropriately restless in Brahms.

Daniel Barenboim offered an unusually Germanic take on César Franck, while section leaders Michael Barenboim and Kian Soltani pulled double duty as soloists in Brahms' Double Concerto.

Shelley and the RPO make sense of Shostakovich with lush Glazunov, tight Borodin and dazzling Prokofiev with Kian Soltani.

For the composer's birthday, a mismatch of performers and repertoire.

The Lucerne Festival audience recently celebrated a superb solo performance by cellist Kian Soltani, the 2018 winner of the annual Credit Suisse Young Artist Award, who played with the Vienna Philharmonic.

An effortless evening of Brahms, Bartók and Schubert: high-class chamber music making from Benjamin Grosvenor and others.

Daniel Barenboim's absence may have confounded the all-Debussy programme but it left the Aix audience with a beautifully balanced recital.

Barenboim's strangely blank Strauss thankfully led to a thrilling Tchaikovsky 5 in tribute to Jacqueline du Pré.

Last night in Sweden: Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra make a performance of Strauss' Don Quixote to remember at the Stockholm Concert Hall.

“Let me play the lion too.” I hadn’t associated Daniel Barenboim with Nick Bottom from A Midsummer Night’s Dream before, but during Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, I half expected him to leap from his piano stool and play the violin and cello parts too. 

Au Musikverein, les Wiener Symphoniker célèbrent le printemps lors de ce traditionnel Concert de Pâques dirigé par Markus Poschner, avec Kian Soltani en invité de marque.

Un Schumann que no acaba de encajar y un Dvoràk insustancial nos dejan expectantes de escuchar la verdadera calidad de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Viena y Marin Alsop.

Das Orchester verdient für dieses Programm, das den Bogen von Beethoven über Dvořák zu Skalkottas und Ravel spannt, eine Goldmedaille.

Retour sur un programme original révélant des connexions inattendues. 

Barenboim machte deutlich, dass nicht er selbst im Zentrum stand, sondern das Orchester, das Konzept des „Divan“, das gemeinsame Erleben der Jugendlichen, die einen sehr eindrücklichen, bewegenden Konzertabend gestaltet hatten.