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A fascinating and meticulously planned program of music by Clara and Robert Schumann, Brahms and Prokofiev at Carnegie Hall. 

Little had planned to quit in August, but Covid-19 threw all her concert plans into disarray, but last night took a significant step towards the exit, bidding farewell to London’s Southbank Centre.

After tumbling deliriously to the end, if they had played one of Brahms' Hungarian Dances as an encore, they would have had them the audience dancing in the aisles.

A gloriously romantic performance by Lars Vogt and Royal Northern Sinfonia of Brahms' First Piano Concerto, complemented by Beethoven and Schumann.

How do violinists devise their recital programmes? The conventional format has been to choose a violin sonata from each musical era, or to focus on a particular composer or national style.

Maxim Vengerov and Polina Osetinskaya’s marathon of Brahms sonatas showed off the composer at his most lyrical and dramatic. 

Vengeron and Papian explored what lies under the shiny surface of late 19th century repertoire

Saturday's opening concert of the Oslo Chamber Music Festival was something of a lukewarm experience, yet it occasionally shone with ravishing Beethoven and deeply engaging Bartók.

The International Chamber Music Festival offered a cycling tour along some of the finest buildings in Utrecht, where music was performed in this special setting.

There was something for everyone in Maxim Vengerov and Itamar Golan’s recital programme at the Barbican last night. The music of nine different nations was represented in a multicultural extravaganza of shifting horizons, moods and styles.

Northern Sinfonia’s season of music by Brahms and Schumann opened on Friday night with the very public statements of their first symphonies, and the following night members of Northern Sinfonia turned inwards to the introspective and private world of their chamber music.Brahms was introduced to Schumann by the great violinist Joseph Joachim, and the three men were great friends.

Pour ce premier concert de 2022, la pandémie n'a pas manqué de se rappeler à chacun. Au Parvis, l'ONCT, Aylen Pritchin et Maxim Emelyanychev ont dû réinventer le programme de la soirée !

Un programme bâti sur des compositions bien connues et appréciées, une maitrise technique et expressive.

Ce qui fait de Vengerov l’un des violonistes les plus appréciés de sa génération, c’est la richesse de la palette sonore qu’il parvient à obtenir de son instrument. Retour sur son récital à la Philharmonie.

Wer glaubte, sich für einen entspannten Kammermusikabend gemütlich in seinem Sitz zurücklehnen zu können, der wurde schnell mit einem Brahmsschen Scherzo eines Besseren belehrt.