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Isabelle Faust, Giovanni Antonini and the Italian period instrument ensemble Il Giardino Armonico gather again for Mozart's complete Violin Concertos.

In celebration of the 300th anniversary of Bach's St John Passion, Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan gives a compelling performance of the lesser-known 1725 version of work.

Andrea Battistoni conducts the Tokyo Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky's three Shakespeare-inspired works in a single programme. In between, cellist Haruma Sato excels in the original version of the Rococo Variations.

In the cathedral-like surroundings of Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, a superb first movement of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony eclipses Kabalevsky’s First Cello Concerto.

Three Haydn symphonies grace the bill in Järvi's onging project which started in earnest last year in Vienna.

A spellbinding journey as Emmanuel Pahud plays a 70-minute solo programme in a near capacity audience in the 1600-seater concert hall.

For a year and a half since their European tour was cut short due to the outbreak of the pandemic, Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan have been grounded in Japan, performing domestically despite restrictions.

Kyung Wha Chung exceeds her already-legendary reputation, assisted by her brother, Myung-whun Chung, and the Tokyo Philharmonic. 

Asian themes were felt in some of the works selected for the final of this composition award.

With thought-inspiring programming, Schiff played the penultimate sonatas of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert.