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Andris Nelson’s repeated fast upward flicks of the baton were disquieting to watch.

A powerful piano and a tendency towards fortissimo dynamics disappoints at this recital of baroque piano transcriptions.

The virtuoso pianist Marc-André Hamelin played a program of works by Bach, Fauré, Ravel and Rachmaninov, bracketed by his own Variations on a theme by Paganini. Last March in Toronto, when Hamelin snuck this piece into the program as an encore, I wrote that it was “ten minutes of the most fun you’ll ever have crowding around a piano at the end of party.

Mit orgeltypischer Wucht dechiffrierten die Steenbrink-Zwillingsschwestern pfiffig und anregend die Pfeifenregisterfarben zu einer neuen alten Schatz- und Herzkammer für „originale“ Saiten, Bögen, Mundstücke und Rohrblätter. Wahrlich königlich!