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Rafal Blechacz: Debussy, Szymanowski – review

4380 days ago
Guardian MusicRafał Blechacz (Deutsche Grammophon)The young Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz won all five first prizes in the Warsaw Chopin piano competition in 2005 but has since been in and out of the limelight: this finely characterised recital will surely plac... more info

Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen; Debussy: En Blanc et Noir – review

4389 days ago
Guardian MusicVan Raat/Austbo(Naxos)Debussy's two-piano masterpiece and Messiaen's devotional cycle make a logical pairing. Both were composed during wartime: En Blanc et Noir dates from 1915 and its central movement is dedicated to a French officer killed in acti... more info

Proms 2012: a season of pleasant surprises

4389 days ago
Guardian MusicFrom choral monsters to period-instrument Debussy, Andrew Clements picks his highlights of this year's Proms concertsThe BBC always keeps its secrets better than most where the contents of the Proms are concerned, so that each year's programme announ... more info

Proms 2012 celebrates best of Britain - youth, royalty, and Wallace & Gromit

4389 days ago
Guardian MusicFestival's 118th season also features Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra's Beethoven cycle and marks Delius, Debussy and John Cage anniversaries.All of Beethoven's symphonies are to be performed in their entirety at the BBC Proms for the firs... more info

Sandrine Piau – review

4396 days ago
Guardian MusicWigmore Hall, LondonThough Sandrine Piau has made her career as a baroque and classical specialist, in recent years the French soprano has been attempting to move her voice forward into later repertory as well. In this long and ambitious programme co... more info

Tokyo String Quartet/Haefliger – review

4397 days ago
Guardian MusicWigmore Hall, LondonThe Tokyo String Quartet make a fabulous sound: rich, bright and ripely resonant. Their performances have the reassuring momentum one expects of a well-upholstered limousine cornering at high speed, with Martin Beaver's first ... more info

Mark Swartzentruber – review

4398 days ago
Guardian MusicWigmore Hall, LondonThe American-born, London-based Mark Swartzentruber is a well-known teacher as well as a pianist, whose intellectual rigour and sense of thoroughness define him as a performer. A fine technician, he can be a dispassionate player, ... more info

Neven/Eijsackers - review

4402 days ago
Guardian MusicWigmore Hall, LondonThe Dutch baritone Henk Neven was part of the 2009 crop of BBC New Generation Artists, and his first disc, of songs by Schumann and Löwe, was widely admired. Though he has built up his reputation so far mainly as an interpreter o... more info

ONCT/Sokhiev – review

4410 days ago
Guardian MusicHexagon, ReadingThe Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse is best known for its extensive and distinguished discography, which includes some of the less familiar works from the French repertoire, particularly operatic. It comes as a surprise, th... more info

Gerhardt/Larcher – review

4410 days ago
Guardian MusicWigmore Hall, LondonLast year, cellist Alban Gerhardt appeared at the Wigmore Hall as part of a piano trio with Alina Ibragimova and Steven Osborne. It was the first time the three had played chamber music together; in the two great Schubert trios, t... more info

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