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Guardian Music — Barbican Hall, LondonThis was, in many ways, a typical Murray Perahia programme: works by five of the keyboard's greatest composers, plus an encore by a sixth, all knitting together to form a satisfying whole, yet containing only one real showpiece. ... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, LondonKirill Petrenko was to have conducted this revival of Jürgen Flimm's production of Beethoven's opera, but his departure at a late stage because of back problems brings Mark Elder to the rescue, at least for the first four pe... more info

Guardian Music — John Daniel writes: John Steane (obituary, 29 March) was best known as a musicologist and a leading authority on singing, but I knew him as an English teacher at Merchant Taylors' school in Middlesex, where he was my tutor in the early 1950s. In an i... more info

Guardian Music — Southbank Centre, LondonOn his day, and this was definitely one of them, Mariss Jansons has an exceptional ability to bring cornerstone orchestral repertoire works back to life, blowing away their cobwebs without indulging in any quirky or perverse i... more info

Guardian Music — St George's, BristolThe programme with which Angela Hewitt has been touring in recent weeks would have deterred most pianists. A keyboard suite by Handel paired with Brahms' Op 24 Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel is already a grand statement... more info

Guardian Music — Noriko Ogawa: Special Japan Appeal Concert, LondonThough she's London-based these days, pianist Noriko Ogawa was back in Tokyo, where she studied, when the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan two weeks ago. "I was in two minds about going... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonConcerts often improve after the interval, but the second half of this Philharmonia event involving András Schiff was something else entirely. In the first half, Schiff simply conducted. His relaxed, frequently non-interve... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThe centrepiece of Colin Davis's latest LSO concert was a performance of the Four Last Songs that was at once magisterial and at times almost intolerably moving. Strauss is probably not the first composer who springs to mind when Davi... more info

Mercury News, California — IF YOU WERE not among the fortunate many who heard superb cellist Alisa Weilerstein performing the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the San Francisco Symphony last month -- she was one of three soloists, but she pulled far more than a third of the work... more info