Wonderful though the players were, the credit for the energising clarity of sound and sureness of pacing must go to the orchestra’s Music Director Semyon Bychkov. He observed Mahler’s ...

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Igor Levit delivers an incendiary performance of Prokofiev’s 2nd Piano Concerto – the centrepiece in an evening of orchestral splendour from this outstanding Hungarian orchestra ...

Beethoven's Triple Concerto has a reputation of being a problematic work, but Myung-Whun Chung and the Tokyo Philharmonic prove otherwise in an emphatic performance.