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The Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams, in sync with an appreciative audience, offers Beethoven both lyrical and profound.

Thursday's opening of the Oslo Chamber Music Festival showed an enticing bredth of programming, showcasing a wide array of new and old music, all performed with utter conviction.

Andsnes continues to woo Irish audiences with a concert of miniatures.

Although this was ostensibly a recital featuring the music of two composers, a third, much less venerable one, also managed to leave his mark on proceedings. The figure in question is Carl Czerny, the one-time pupil of Beethoven’s whose banal piano studies proved to be the springboard for the first of Claude Debussy’s own, far more inventive forays into the genre.

Nach Beethoven leuchtet Daniil Trifonov besonders bei Schumann und Prokofjew auf.

À la Philharmonie de Paris, Daniel Barenboim commence une nouvelle intégrale des sonates pour piano de Beethoven. Retour sur un récital contrasté, des promesses de la Sonate n° 1 à une décevante Hammerklavier.

En récital à l’Auditorium de Lyon, Leif Ove Andsnes dégage l’essence des choses.