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The Austrian pianist’s expressive and elegant interpretation of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto is the highlight in a New York Philharmonic program of classics of the German Romantic repertoire.

In the city’s sonorous Tonhalle, and under Parvo Järvi’s dynamic baton, works by Arvo Pärt, Ludwig von Beethoven, and Anton Bruckner make for a multi-coloured programme. 

At the Proms the splendour of Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony provides a contrast to but also a parallel with Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto in a welcome visit by The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder with Benjamin Grosvenor.

The Tonhalle Orchester Zürich premieres its 2020 concert season with a work by Composer-in-Residence, Arvo Pärt, and a spirited Beethoven concerto, with Lars Vogt at the piano.

A rare Enescu symphony makes an appearance in the latest of the LPO’s year-long series exploring works across the centuries.

A rare appearance by Radu Lupu proves that a concerto soloist doesn’t have to be showy to thrill an audience.