Performer: Jian Wang

Long Yu certainly didn’t rest on his laurels as he powered through Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, while Jian Wang introduced subtlety and deftness in the Rococo Variations.

East meets West meets East in a disappointing display of homogenised, sugar-coated music-making in Birmingham

Louis Langrée conducts the Hallé in music by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester