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Piano Concerto No. 3 Yunchan Lim (piano); Forth Worth Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop Decca STNS30217 (digital) 41:40 mins At just north of 40 minutes, Decca’s release of Yunchan Lim’s prize-winning pe
The mayor of Fort Worth officially renamed it Piano City for the three-week duration of the Van Cliburn competition in June. A slick piece of marketing, you might think. When I arrived for the week-lo
MY PICK OF THE PROMS GEORGIA MANN ...
‘I’ve never been a particularly esoteric person,’ Nicola Benedetti tells me as we sit down to talk following the press launch of her third Edinburgh Festival. And yet, as she explains the theme of thi
On Friday 18 July, at the hands of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sakari Oramo, the BBC Proms will be launched into life with Bliss’s Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood – two minu
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