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Timothy Ridout plays Britten and Larcher in a Wigmore Hall programme with the Britten Sinfonia. 

In the sacred golden temple that is the Musikverein, Martha Argerich plays Ravel's saucy Piano Concerto in G major, before the Philharmoniker and Zubin Mehta play Bruckner's Seventh Symphony. 

Martha Argerich returns to the Enescu Festival for one of the pillars of her repertory, Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, in a buoyant performance. 

Angela Hewitt’s definitive all-Bach program was anchored by the first three of the English Suites.

To reach the mother lode of Bach's keyboard music, you have to listen to it on harpsichord, and today, no performer embodies that mother lode more than Mahan Esfahani.

Czech harpsichord legend Zuzana Růžičková would have turned 91 on 14 January, making it an ideal night for a tribute concert featuring one of her star pupils, Iranian-American harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani. As he noted in brief remarks sandwiched between rousing renditions of Bach, “When she died, I lost a great teacher. But this country lost part of its history.

Bei Janáček lebte András Schiff richtiggehend auf! Bei allem Wohlklang war die Stimmung des Satzes „Die Ahnung“ ausgezeichnet eingefangen, eindrücklich in der dynamischen Gestaltung und im Wogen des musikalischen Flusses.

Nach dem Verlust ihres Bratschisten Friedemann Weigle im Juli dieses Jahres ist das Artemis Quartett nun auf Tournee „In Memoriam“, um Seiner zu gedenken.

Piotr Anderszewski seated himself on a chair without any fuss and eased into the Allemande of Bach’s French Suite no. 5 in G with a soft touch. His rounded notes, subdued in the left hand, not too sparkly in the right, were as far as you could get from the quirky, angular style of Glenn Gould, who rules in Toronto, his home turf.

At age 43, Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski is known for his sensitive touch, technical versatility and probing musicianship, with a wide repertory that spans the works of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Janáček, Schumann and Szymanowski, among others.