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Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto in D is a sprawling smorgasbord of a piece, held together by Nicola Benedetti’s ferocious commitment and personality, along with a Mallonee premiere and perfect Petrushka.

George Li brings forward unexpected connections in masterly interpretations of works by Ravel and Stravinsky. 

The Cliburn-winning pianist enthralls the Wigmore Hall audience with full-blooded Stravinsky and a distinctive, rounded approach to Bach.

An intriguing concert performed on three pianos from different eras which revealed how composers responded to the piano technology available to them at the time.

A recital of incomparable but unrelated works became a lengthy attempt to adapt tempi.

On a program with unusually slow tempos in Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony and Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides, Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter gave a cursory performance of Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto.

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto received a successful world première with Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony, the composer conducting, richly complemented by works of Adams and Stravinsky.

The young Russian pianist once more bewitches, dazzles and excites in a wide-ranging recital.

There are few composers for the piano as viscerally exciting as Franz Liszt and there are few pianists today who perform his music with as much visceral excitement as Khatia Buniatishvili. 

Friendschip, new discoveries and variety of musical expressions at the opening concert of the 10th Pianoscope Festival in Beauvais.

Ivo Pogorelić returned the London stage after an absence of 15 years in a concert comprising big, popular works of the standard repertoire, which tested the pianist’s technical and interpretative skills to the limit.

A silver sequined gown and sparkling virtuosity dazzled a good proportion of the audience in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in a recital by Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili. However, can virtuosity for its own sake be too much of a good thing? 

Yuja Wang’s latest recital at Carnegie Hall, which took place Tuesday evening, is best compared to a triple-decker sandwich with very excellent bread and questionable innards. Ms. Wang is known for her intimidating technique: powerful, playful, and superlative. Her energy is at its highest during her showy encores, and her pianism is at its most impressive with virtuosic Russian repertoire.

His build is blocky like the hockey defense-man he once was, but Denis Matsuev’s fingers can touch piano keys lightly as butterflies landing on begonias. The mood of his solo recital opened blissfully, like the January night by the fireplace described in Puskin’s poem “By the Hearth” which inspired the first of the twelve monthly miniatures Tchaikovsky published as The Seasons, Op. 37b.

If you’ve ever been to Wigmore Hall, you’ll know that they’re pretty hot on concert etiquette. Next to an easel sporting a canvas depicting a huge mobile phone and a giant red cross (which doesn’t exactly complement the extraordinary pre-Raphaelitesque cupola or the curves of the Steinway), before the performance an impeccably-dressed gentleman appears on stage urging the audience to check their p

On Wednesday night the Turkish-born star pianist, all-rounder musician Fazil Say returned to the Konzerthaus in Berlin shortly after completing his successful year of artist-in-residence there. Say, who also composes and plays Jazz, is known for his unconventional approach.

As the sun dipped below the horizon Sunday afternoon, The Chopin Society UK enticed classical music enthusiasts inside Westminster Cathedral Hall with a glittering performance by Italian pianist Alessandro Taverna. Presenting Chopin, Liszt, De Falla, Satie and Stravinsky all in one programme, Taverna re-imagined his piano recital as a ballet: Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes.

Le musicien russe a d'indéniables qualités pianistiques, mais on a cherché en vain l'esprit de la danse et du chant dans un programme qui pourtant l'appelait.

Pour sa première au festival toulousain, le jeune Américain a fait passer son clavier par toutes les émotions, par toutes les couleurs, par tous les extrêmes, sans jamais trembler ni faillir.

Si l'habillage pianistique proposé par Beatrice Rana est somptueux, il n'est pas toujours des plus appropriés... et le maniérisme de la musicienne finit par agacer.

Il n'y a que Radio France qui puisse consacrer six récitals de piano dont la programmation tourne autour de la Révolution russe de 1917.

Le jongleur Yoann Bourgeois et les pianistes Wilhem Latchoumia et Jay Gottlieb nous rappellent comment le cirque peut rejoindre la musique classique. A côté des inspirations quelquefois stéréotypées de Widman, Satie ou Stravinsky, la chorégraphie jonglée sur une fugue de Bach est une merveille.

Mit dieser Auswahl konnte der Künstler die ganze Breite seines Könnens präsentieren: Lyrik und auftrumpfende Artistik, Klangmalerei und kraftvolle Virtuosität.

Concierto desequilibrado entre las impresionantes capacidades técnicas del pianista de Belgrado y su falta de empatía para según qué repertorios.

La OSG ofreció un concierto con un fuerte carácter ruso, donde el violinista Dmitry Sitkovetsky impactó con su profundo sonido.

Khatia Buniatishvili gestattete weder sich noch dem Publikum eine Atempause in diesem hamburger Konzert voller fingertechnischer Drahtseilakte.