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A fantastic all-Tchaikovsky concert in which cellist Natalie Clein gave a magnificent rendition of the Rococo Variations.

Long Yu certainly didn’t rest on his laurels as he powered through Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, while Jian Wang introduced subtlety and deftness in the Rococo Variations.

Schumann and Wagner were twinned in a programme focusing on works written in 1850 with impressvie results. 

Louis Langrée conducts the Hallé in music by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester

Despite some briliant orchestral playing and orchestral warhorses, Pinchas Zukerman's wooden conducting style made for an unmemorable evening at Cadogan Hall.