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An effective Bach, a disappointing Brahms and a generally satisfactory Schubert: Kovacevich fails to grip in Dublin. 

A mixed experience with harpsichordist Noriko Amano and dancer Shusaku Takeachi at the Concertgebouw.

The Partitas are Bach's most grueling works for keyboard, but Koopman's accomplished interpretation brought them to life. 

Angela Hewitt, Julia Schroder and Andrea Oliva play J.S. Bach at Wigmore Hall in London, finishing with The Musical Offering.

András Schiff's Wigmore Hall concert of Bach's six Keyboard Partitas confirmed him as an artist working at the very top of his game.

Almost a year after it started, András Schiff’s Bach project in New York is finally coming to its conclusion. He began on the Upper East Side, at 92Y, with both books of The Well-Tempered Clavier. His performance of Book I, I wrote, was “of the highest quality and depth of thought”.

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.

The word 'prodigy' is unavoidable when writing about Benjamin Grosvenor, or so it appears for the headline writers. Having eschewed many big concert dates and growing as an artist in smaller halls, he is clearly setting himself up for the long haul. This ambitious, sold-out Cambridge concert showed both how brilliant a pianist he already is, and hinted at how far he could go in the future.