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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.

Rafał Blechacz is known within the piano world as the winner of the 2005 Chopin International Piano Competition, but on the whole, he has kept a fairly low media profile since. 

If Benjamin Grosvenor were a wine, his tasting notes might read something like: “an outstanding early vintage, this is already a fine, well-balanced red, with subtlety of flavour. Can be quaffed now though should mature exceedingly well.

As part of Birmingham’s International Concert Season, there’s a series of lunchtime performances from rising stars, entitled “Bright Futures”.

Young British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has been much in the news lately: the recipient of two Gramophone Awards (Young Artist of the Year and Instrumental Award for his debut disc), and winner of the Critics’ Award at the 2012 Classic Brits. And he’s in great demand as a performer, if his diary is anything to go by.

Dans l'auditorium du Musée d'Orsay, Edoardo Torbianelli a livré un récital Chopin mémorable, sur un Gaveau sorti des ateliers parisiens en 1907.

Maurizio Pollini, acogido en Madrid por la Fundación Scherzo, desplegó toda su sabiduría en un discurso pianístico profundamente personal.

Curieux programme que celui concocté par Pascal Amoyel pour son concert au festival Chopin. D’abord séduit par quelques trouvailles, par la richesse de la sonorité, on s’est finalement lassé des trop nombreuses excentricités de phrasé. L’étrangeté érigée en système ?