En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Six Moments musicaux, D.780: 3. Allegro moderato, en fa mineur

Au vu de sa Campanella, de son Appassionata, il paraît évident qu’Abduraimov est de ces artistes qui pratiquent au plus haut degré une certaine forme de culturisme technique. Culturisme qu’il pare et sublime sous l’animalité de ses lectures : violence féline, spontanéiste, presque iconoclaste mais toujours fascinante.

Can one be artful and musical while playing at maximum volume? In a program of López, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, Rafael Payare and the Pittsburgh Symphony answer a resounding yes.

From Schubert and Schumann to Liszt, Arcadi Volodos makes a triumphant return to London's Barbican. 

Richard Farnes conducts Andrew Gourlay's symphonic suite drawn from Wagner's Parsifal as the Symphony Orchestra of India returns to Cadogan Hall. 

Elim Chan and Igor Levit make successful Boston Symphony debuts performing Brahms' Second Piano Concerto. 

Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Philharmonia Orchestra excelled in a fascinating exploration of post-revolutionary Russian music under the banner ‘Workers and the State’.

Russian repertoire is second nature to Mariss Jansons and this programme at the Barbican with his Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra was easily the finest music-making I’d heard all year.

Behzod Abduraimov brought his intense and brilliant pianism for his first recital on the main stage of Carnegie Hall

Musical pilgrims gathered in Verbier's church to listen to the cult Russian pianist in a programme of Schumann and Chopin.