Modest virtuosity: Murray Perahia at the Barbican

Murray Perahia’s deeply rewarding recital featured Beethoven’s monolithic Hammerklavier piano sonata, prefaced by works of Bach and Schubert.

Soon to be seventy, Murray Perahia and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields give full expression to the life force that is Beethoven, in their continuing cycle of the piano concertos.

Murray Perahia plays Haydn, Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.

Bernard Haitink and Murray Perahia bring a lifetime of experience, frequent collaboration, and an evergreen musicianship to bear on a program of Beethoven and Mahler.

A memorable programme of Schumann from Bernard Haitink and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. 

Bernard Haitink presides over a performance of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra which was “Just So” – everything in its place.