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One does not often get a profound sense of approaching Bunyan's Celestial City while at the Barbican, but Sir Antonio Pappano and the LSO open heaven's gates wide open. 

A carefully curated concert by the effervescent Icelandic pianist, Víkingur Ólafsson, of music by Mozart and his contemporaries. 

Pollini's love for Chopin and Debussy was evident throughout an intimate recital as part of the Southbank Centre's in the International Piano Series.

Sir Mark Elder conducts The Hallé in Berlioz, Saint-Saëns with Stephen Hough and Vaughan Williams

What a great composer, and what a great advocate for his genius.

A four-hour concert featuring piano music by Debussy might seem like an excessive ask, but the Perth Festival filled the venue for this stunning and highly entertaining concert by French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.

Russian pianist Anna Tsybuleva, winner of the 2015 Leeds International Piano Competition, made her Wigmore Hall debut in a programme of fantasy-like works spanning 300 years of music history.

As one of the featured artists of the ‘Am Piano’ festival in Lucerne, Lise de la Salle brought a poetic weave to the fabric of complex and highly demanding scores. 

Acclaimed Russian pianist Boris Berezovsky opened the 2014 International Piano Series concerts at Southbank Centre with an impressive and absorbing recital of music by Debussy, Ravel and Rachmaninov.

Adoring and knowledgeable fans, lots of good humour and a tendency to wear silly hats: this description could fit any Proms audience, but Prom 2 was not quite the usual Prom. For one thing, the silly hats were mostly fezzes, and the audience’s expert knowledge extended to being able to identify the weird alien life forms that had invaded the Royal Albert Hall.

Hong Kong has had the good fortune to present Krystian Zimerman several times in recent years, thanks to presenters at the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Those who have been following Zimerman’s concert engagements will realize much of his activities today are focused in Europe and Asia.

Amsterdam Sinfonietta offered a program with three Russians and a French composer, and, perhaps more interestingly, featured three works orchestrated by other composers.

Dans Couperin, Debussy, Satie et Ravel, le pianiste a montré qu'il était comme chez lui dans ce répertoire français qu'il partage avec générosité auprès d'un public fidèle.

Un récital d’une admirable unité ! Les Chopin de Kissin furent hiératiques, son Schumann d’une justesse absolue et ses Debussy comme dans un rêve. Un voyage à vivre assurément.

Anna Vinnitskaya gab ihr Debüt im Kammermusiksaal der Berliner Philharmonie mit einem anspruchsvollen und wohl gelungenen klugen Programm mit Prokofjew, Debussy und Chopin.