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Arcadi Volodos: Schubert piano sonata D850, Schumann Kinderszenen op15 – playfulness, longing and elegance

The pianist binds Schubert’s D850 with Schumann’s Kinderszenen with playing of warmth and crystalline technique

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Harnoncourt: Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schumann album review – revelatory readings from the late revolutionary

This 1999 live recording captures the late conductor’s radical ear in bracing Mendelssohn, gossamer Wagner and a luminous Liebestod – from Violeta Urmana

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Ben Goldscheider/ Richard Uttley review – a horn, a piano … and a braying donkey

This was a richly satisfying and moving concert of music that ranged from Mahler and Schumann to Simon Holt’s the Bell and Oliver Leith’s Eeyore

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WDR SO Cologne Chamber Players: The Romantic Room, Chamber Works by Spohr album review – plenty to discover

The early 19th century German composer wrote a prodigious amount of music, little of it known today. This rewarding collection features his larger-scale chamber works

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The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals album review – a joyful reminder of the richness of Claudio Arrau

Three recitals given by the Chilean pianist in the 70s and 80s are a feast of lucid and emphatic playing that hasn’t dated in the slightest

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Alfred Brendel obituary

One of the greatest pianists of his generation who bestrode the musical world for six decades

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Lang Lang review – captivating, astonishing and disorientating

In a programme of Fauré, Schumann and Chopin, the pianist’s take felt at times wilfully eccentric as in his hands, this familiar music became quite alien.

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Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber review – Gerhaher is unmatched singing Schumann

This absorbing recital shone a light on some of the composer’s lesser known songs

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From exquisite Elgar to razor-sharp Cage: our classical recordings of the year

A piano prodigy burst onto the scene, studio opera recordings were few and far between – and the year’s most rewarding discs were the ones that ventured beyond the mainstream

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From the salon and the scarf dance … to silence: the music of Cécile Chaminade

Her work was played at Queen Victoria’s funeral, and her compositions celebrated all over the world – but today she is barely known. Stephen Hough on why he is putting Chaminade in his current season

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Llŷr Williams review – Welsh pianist of an infinite range of colours

Williams more than rose to the challenge of Schumann’s Kreisleriana and the Op 11 Sonata with playing of clarity and rigour

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ASMF Chamber Ensemble review – Perahia makes welcome return to celebrate Marriner’s centenary

Murray Perahia’s long relationship with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields saw the conductor and pianist on stage to be part of Schumann’s Piano Quintet

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Maurizio Pollini obituary

Pianist who won the Chopin competition at 19 and who had an intellectual approach to art and life

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Betts-Dean/Armida Quartet review – drama and charisma as Brett Dean, and daughter, turn to Mary Queen of Scots

Matthew Jocelyn and Brett Dean’s 2021 song cycle based on the Scottish Queen’s letters was perfectly partnered with Dean’s new arrangement of Schumann, and Janáček’s second string quartet

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Schumann: Piano Works album review – Llŷr Williams is thoughtful and authoritative

The two-disc set of six works, which includes two of Schumann’s best known keyboard pieces, feels a little studied at points, but the playing is immaculate

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Schumann: Piano Quartet; Piano Quintet album review – period instrument perfection

This pairing of Schumann’s larger-scale chamber works has lightness and clarity, the instruments are beautifully balanced

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BBC NOW/Bancroft review – anguished, beautiful Mahler and uplifting Schumann

Relocated and reprogrammed because of Raac checks closing the original venue, this season-opener of Mahler – with mezzo Christianne Stotijn – and Schumann did not disappoint

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At last, Hyperion recordings are streamable. We pick some of the standouts

The British classical label is now part of Universal Music and its superb catalogue is being made available to stream. From Hildegard of Bingen to Hough, Hewitt and Hamelin, we look over some of the greatest recordings now available

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Evening Standard

The BBC Proms fights for its future

Hurt by arts cuts, gender balance criticisms and a post-Brexit lack of musicians from Europe, this year’s event is rife with insecurity. But, says Opera Now’s editor Hattie Butterworth, there is also defiant innovation...

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Prégardien/Litwin review – immersed in every word, the great lieder singer is in command

The first of three programmes from Prégardien, with songs by Ives, Schubert, Schumann and Mahler linked with settings from Hanns Eisler, consummately sung and played

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Schumann: Dichterliebe and Kerner Lieder review – as fine a recorded performance of Dichterliebe as any of recent years.

The velvety tone of Florian Boesch creates the perfect sound world for the expressive weight of these settings of poems by Heine and Kerner

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Brahms By Arrangement Vol Two: Orchestrations by Robin Holloway review – dialogue with the past brings present benefits

The English composer pays reverent and inventive homage to music by the German grandee with the help of the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Mann

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Benjamin Grosvenor review – pianist’s virtuosity preferences power over pastel colours

An ambitious programme that ranged from Busoni’s Bach to Prokofiev confirmed why the pianist is a favourite here

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Farrenc: Symphonies 1-3; Overtures review – music of energy and verve from sidelined composer

Laurence Equilbey and her orchestra champion compatriot Louise Farrenc’s orchestral works, revealing energy and verve to rival her 19th-century peers

Chicago Sun-Times

Riccardo Muti, CSO triumph with Tchaikovsky’s epic ‘Manfred’ Symphony

With Muti’s departure as music director at the end of June coming ever closer, each of his appearances with the orchestra seems to carry added meaning and emotion, and it certainly felt that way Thursday.

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