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Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Show more Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with ...
On a beautiful spring evening on Thursday, it was the turn of Christoph Eschenbach. The orchestra has been undertaking a celebration of Bach and Mendelssohn. The initiative throws up some fascinating ...
In Beethoven’s relatively short life he devoted significant time to composing for the instrument that he made his own: the piano. Even though Beethoven composed nine astonishing Symphonies, sonatas, ...
Still boyish-looking at 54, Andsnes channeled the 22-year-old Edvard Grieg as the Leipzig-trained composer reached for the grandeur of the German Romantic school in his lone sonata for piano. Happily, ...
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto After the success of his Op.18 Rachmaninov threw himself into his work. This fine cello sonata appeared not long after ...
Side by side with one another there now exist two radically different versions of Mozart’s life. The less obviously dramatic of the two tells the story of a jobbing composer amid the busy and highly ...