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Per Nørgård’s Eighth Symphony is the unusual opener in a programme of magnificent Beethoven and Sibelius from the BBC Philharmonic, Paul Lewis and John Storgårds at the Bridgewater Hall. 

The British pianist reveals new ideas in the most familiar of music in this recital program, which concludes a multi-year return to Schubert's keyboard literature.

John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a high-octane performance of Holst's The Planets.

A knockout performance of Sir Henry Wood's arrangement of Mussorgsky's most famous composition, coupled with refinement and sophistication elsewhere, show the CBSO at the top of its game.

The closing concert for the triple anniversary of Serge Koussevitzky and the BSO takes a fittingly ritualistic turn.

A remarkable recital of outstanding sensitivity and intellectual rigour where Paul Lewis made Schubert sing and dance, although not without a few disconcerting shadows.

Petr Popelka takes the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra to heavenly heights with help from a brilliant group of of vocalists.

The RLPO and their Chief Conductor start the new season with American swagger as Paul Lewis joins them for two jazz-infused piano works. 

The popular Finnish-Ukrainian conductor brings music from Finland and Ukraine to launch the 2023 Proms season, including Sibelius' rarity, Snöfrid. 

Three of Franz Schubert's sonatas are delivered with unvarnished passion by the British pianist in Victoria Concert Hall. 

Roberto González-Monjas conducts the Belgian National Orchestra, joined by Paul Lewis, in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.

Embraced by Daniel Harding, Ian Bostridge, Christian Tetzlaff, Alban Gerhardt and Paul Lewis, the Parisian ensemble gives an exceptional concert, faithful to Lars Vogt’s way of making music.

Paul Lewis offered a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto that would be hard to top, while Andris Nelsons led the world premiere of Elizabeth Ogonek's colorful Starling Variations.

A tour de force for all concerned with the Boston Symphony Orchestra responding to Paul Lewis’ dynamic finesse with a palette of its own. 

Prefacing the Beethoven concertos, Julia Adolphe's world premiere proposed a beautifully orchestrated soundscape sounding in turn menacing and eerie.

The evolving relationship between Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is one to be followed.

Lewis' playing on a thoroughly modern instrument was as if he was in awe at the miracle of what Mozart had done with a simple fortepiano.

An evening of Hausmusik as friends gather to celebrate the birthday of one of the UK's finest pianists at Wigmore Hall. 

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra proves that old warhorses can still sound fresh when played with a keen ear for color and attention to the little interpretive details.

In a score which is often used as a vehicle to display the pianist’s virtuosity, there was a total lack of grandiloquence.

It was evident from the first bars that Strauss' An Alpine Symphony is a score about which Daniel Harding cares deeply.

A world première commemorating 9/11 and two works from the core German repertory performed by Paul Lewis and the BBC Philharmonic under Ben Gernon.

Paul Lewis continued his enlightening exploration of Haydn, Beethoven and Brahms with performances of delicacy, steel and depth, where quality ruled over quantity.

The Symphony no. 11 “The Year 1905”, receiving its BSO première, was the first of three Shostakovich symphonies to be presented in Boston this season. 

Conducted by Edward Gardner, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra brought a fresh approach to Elgar's First Symphony.

Andris Nelsons conducts Bruckner's Ninth symphony, while Paul Lewis plays Mozart.

Andris Nelsons conducted pianist Paul Lewis and the fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center in an All-Brahms Sunday afternoon

While Paul Lewis impressed in Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic struggled to keep pace. Luckily, they seemed more at home in Scriabin's Second Symphony.

This was one of those absorbing discovery type recital programmes where links between the composers were both in and between the music. 

Paul Lewis gave a noteworthy piano recital in Leeds, presenting the three last Beethoven piano sonatas. 

Where should the ideal Mahler 5 sit on the Bernstein-to-Boulez spectrum? Saraste and the LPO had a persuasive answer.

With expressive playing of Brahms's miniatures and solid performances of two of Beethoven's late piano sonatas, Paul Lewis' recital in Sydney was musically satisfying if not transcendent.

Picking up where his Czech predecessors left off, Vasily Petrenko led the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in a satisfying close to this year's festival.

Paul Lewis gives a magnificent rendition of the last three sonatas by Beethoven in Dublin. 

Vasily Petrenko and Paul Lewis – two young men, around 40 years apiece – joined forces at the CSO last week in a program of very mature works. 

A select group of musicians provided a modest programme of chamber music at St George’s alongside renowned pianist, Paul Lewis.

The music was so convincingly Czech and so naturally bucolic in outlook that I was left at the end wishing that we might hear more Dvořák from the Hallé/Elder partnership. 

Saturday's opening concert of the Oslo Chamber Music Festival was something of a lukewarm experience, yet it occasionally shone with ravishing Beethoven and deeply engaging Bartók.

Andris Nelsons conducts the CBSO in an imposing account of Beethoven's “Emperor” Concerto with Paul Lewis and a brilliantly entertaining Symphonia Domestica.

James MacMillan’s The Death of Oscar receives its American première under Stéphane Denève, while Paul Lewis is the soloist in a thought-provoking account of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 3.

Superb pianism in unexpected repertoire from Paul Lewis, while the Beethoven with which he made his name doesn't quite stack up.

Coupling Busoni's arrangements of Bach with Beethoven and Liszt with Mussorgsky, Paul Lewis's programme ranged from inward contemplation to thrilling drama. Despite his elegant lyricism and nuanced readings, the recital was slightly marred by some surprising technical flaws.

Concerts with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris are interesting experiences: attending either a symphony or a chamber concert, you might discover a new way to appreciate what you hear.

Daniel Barenboim was onto something earlier this Proms season when he spoke of the “communion” between the Royal Albert Hall audience and the performers: there is a sense of deep, serious, joyous concentration at the Proms that more than compensates for the disappointing acoustic.

After all that tonal instability in last week’s Wagner marathon at the Proms, Daniel Harding and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra’s programme celebrating C major came as a breath of fresh air. The Royal Albert Hall had cooled down a bit too.

Sir Mark Elder conducted the Hallé in the final concert of their 2012/13 Thursday Series, with a truly titanic account of Mahler’s First Symphony at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.The evening began with the première of Near Midnight, the first commission for Helen Grime in her role as Associate Composer of the Hallé.

The billing looked intriguing enough: Kevin Griffiths – the young London-born conductor, celebrated for his dedication to contemporary music, coupled with his fellow countryman Paul Lewis – one of today’s prominent performers of Beethoven and particularly Schubert, in an evening dedicated to Mozart’s music.

Paul Lewis’ current tour constitutes the final instalment of his Schubert cycle. As is the fashion, largely following Artur Schnabel and more recently Alfred Brendel, Lewis plays the last three sonatas as a trilogy, with the D.958 and D.959 played before the interval and the D.960 afterwards.

If your ears happen to frequent the frequencies of the BBC’s classical music radio station, it’s highly possible that you’ll have been swamped by piano music this monsoon season. Piano notes have poured down upon us, flooding the airwaves with this extraordinary instrument’s capacity to evoke everything from orchestras to ocarinas, from tempestuousness to tranquillity, from Moonlight to Raindrops.