Work: Préludes, Bk 1 no. 8: La Fille aux cheveux de lin (The girl with the flaxen hair)

One does not often get a profound sense of approaching Bunyan's Celestial City while at the Barbican, but Sir Antonio Pappano and the LSO open heaven's gates wide open. 

A carefully curated concert by the effervescent Icelandic pianist, Víkingur Ólafsson, of music by Mozart and his contemporaries. 

Pollini's love for Chopin and Debussy was evident throughout an intimate recital as part of the Southbank Centre's in the International Piano Series.