Andrew Clements

· 1-min read Fourteen years ago Julianna Avdeeva became the first woman since Martha Argerich 45 years earlier to take first prize

P iotr Anderszewski is one of the leading pianists of our time, but it seems that these days that is not enough to guarantee a respectable audience; the

It’s hard to think of a better recording of Brahms’ late solo works for piano, even if the two concertos they are packaged with here are less convincing

‘Cities of Song” may be the theme of this year's Oxford international song festival, but just as it has been since the annual event began as the

The 150th anniversary of the birth of the Austrian-American composer was marked with four works that often felt rather hard going

Switching a mezzo for a soprano in the title role, this impressive recording of one of Holst’s most important works is a fitting celebration of the 150th anniversary of his birth

The archetypal concerto, as refined and more or less conclusively defined during the 19th century, is a dialogue between a soloist and an orchestra, who interact on more or less equal terms.

Follow Me by Ondřej Adámek is a vivid work that upends traditional relationships, while exhilarating and faultless Beethoven symphonies bookend the concert

On a record where instruments matter more than the music, Horsch celebrates Brüggen and the remarkable 17th and 18th-century recorders he collected

The viola player Lawrence Power is a resident artist at the Southbank Centre this season.