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Fretwork bring the expected and the startlingly unexpected to Sheffield in a revealing evening of music for viol consort. 

Jean Rondeau’s anniversary tribute to Louis Couperin reveals a refined but inward-looking aesthetic – beautifully controlled, yet ultimately lacking the rhetorical energy, physicality, and communicative spark essential to this music.

Levit introduced the theme at such a clip that one couldn't help but worry about the marathon of musculature he had in front of him, but he persevered, playing with a precision that was almost alarming.

Xian Zhang returns to the Philharmonic to lead a program pairing two 19th-century Romantic works with a 21st-century tone poem.

Andrew Manze conducts an all-Adams programme in Glasgow, Maximiliano Martín the fearless soloist in Gnarly Buttons, bookended by mesmerising Shaker Loops and exuberant Fearful Symmetries. 

Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto comes alive as Stephen Hough joins Domingo Hindoyan and the RLPO in an explosive performance of this dramatic work. 

The pianist concluded her US tour performing a formidable program of Prokofiev, Debussy and Tchaikovsky.