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Old-school pianism that doesn’t quite tell the whole story.
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The charismatic player who won the musical cold war loses his fight with cancer aged 78.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy and Stuart Skelton on Tchaikovsky's supernatural riddle.
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Russian roulette pays off – Gergiev gambles with his countryman’s lesser-known symphonies
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Long live Lang Lang – Almost a decade of pianistic flair all boxed up.
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Delicious seasonal fare: beauty and introspection in a new arrangement of a classic.
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In reimagining The Seasons for guitar duo, brothers Leonard and Slava Grigoryan got a little help from dad.
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Choreographer Boris Eifman has mined a life rich in tragedy to create his ballet Tchaikovsky, which he brings to Australia next week
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Young Russian impresses with this underrated French orchestra.
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Insightful, shocking, lurid, masterful: eight examples of Russell's composer portraits on film.
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Francis Merson -
Mar 29, 2011
This dark score is Swan Lake seen through a glass darkly.
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Fascinating coupling from the 13-year-old prodigy Midori.
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It’s structurally awkward, (longish andantes bookending a seemingly interminable allegro with an extended central slow passage) overlong (42 minutes in this performance) and stylistically diffuse.
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A distinguished line-up tackle Tchaikovsky’s Trio
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Stephen Hough’s romantic piano masterclass.
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What can I tell you about these two old warhorses that most of you don’t already know? Not much, I suspect.
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Simon Rattle and the Berlin Phil make magic.
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A release of two halves from cellist Zuill Bailey.
