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Jakub Hrůša conducts a magnificent Shostakovich 11 and, just after the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a work by one of the many Jewish musicians who perished there.

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

It ever there was a "recital of two halves", then this was it, with a leaden Sonata in B flat major countered by blazing Liszt at the Barbican. 

A pair of A minor sonatas demonstrate the composer's evolution over his lifetime; the Wanderer Fantasy shows the pianist's mastery of phrasing.

Soviet Realism rubs shoulders with Romanticism and a new British work in Liverpool.

Dame Mitsuko Uchida sources truth, beauty and graceful rebellions in a Carnegie Hall recital of Berg, Schubert, Mozart and Schumann.

Behzod Abduraimov shows excellent technical qualities resulting in fine performances of Schubert and Ravel, with less success in Chopin.

It is difficult not to notice the youthfulness of the face greeting us on stage (especially in comparison to the, shall we say, more weather-worn ones in the audience). But Benjamin Grosvenor has come a long way from the eleven-year-old that won the BBC Young Musician of the Year piano final in 2004.

Evgeny Kissin is more than a collection of bones and flesh and crazy hair: he is a sensation. Every May for the past several years, the pianist has performed a recital on the Perelman stage at Carnegie Hall, and every year the tickets have sold out by mid-October, seven or eight months in advance. These recitals are the pinnacle of any concert-goer’s season.

Let me first describe the sound of the applause: taut, front-heavy, explosive. This was before Evgeny Kissin played his first note at Symphony Hall this past Sunday. It was a packed house, with an audience that spilled out of the choir loft and onto several rows of chairs wrapped around the piano.

Pianist Joyce Yang, silver medalist in the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, returned to Fort Worth for a solo recital this week. The eclectic program, in her words a “collage,” consisted of a broad mix of styles, well balanced and thoughtfully organized.

En duo avec un David Fray excellent pour chercher le théâtre à chaque coin de note, la mezzo-soprano a proposé un récital d'exception dans un programme foisonnant, entre classicisme et bel canto.

Das letzte der vier von Opernhaus und Tonhalle Zürich veranstalteten Konzerte zum 150. Geburtstag Sergei Rachmaninows wartete mit dessen Vierter Symphonie und der Paganini-Rhapsodie auf.

Un sorprendente cambio de programa determinó el devenir de un concierto que resultó superficial aun entretenido.

Occupé depuis 2019 à graver l'intégrale du catalogue pour piano de Schubert, le pianiste a proposé un récital romantique et intimiste sur un bel Érard de 1859.

Von der Barockmusik zu Schubert-Liedern war es in Baden-Baden für Philippe Jaroussky kein unbedingt gradliniger Weg.

Retour sur le dantesque récital schubertien d'Elisabeth Leonskaja, au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, ponctué d'œuvres de la Seconde école de Vienne.