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The Polish pianist’s Gilmore recital traverses suites by Beethoven, Chopin, Szymanowski, Bartók and Bach, benefitting from thoughtful interpretation.

Gábor Káli and pianist Dénes Várjon appear with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra for a last hurrah before another pandemic shutdown.

The finale of the Icelandic pianist's five-concert residency in the Bergen Philharmonic's Wintermezzo festival saw him play Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor... this time in the same hall as the orchestra!

Concluding Gardiner's Schumann cycle, it was a memorable concert, with a memorable Spring Symphony and a musical Manfred Overture. The Beethoven first piano concerto proved an unlikely hero.

This was a clever and enjoyable concert built around anniversaries – Panufnik at 100 and Richard Strauss at the grand old age of 150. Despite the two composers being miles apart in approach and style the structures of their two pieces, a single movement building to central climax, were revealed as being similar.

Après Elisabeth Leonskaja, c’était au tour de Dénes Várjon d’enchanter le cloître des Jacobins de compositions hongroises. Le Festival Piano aux Jacobins, dans sa 38ème édition, choisissait pour son deuxième concert le virtuose formé à la Franz Liszt Académie de Budapest.