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LONDON Wigmore Hall Roman Rabinovich 17 November Jean-Efflam Bavouzet 27 November Nikolai Lugansky 8 December Kit Armstrong 22 December Danny Driver 2 January Alim Beisembayev 9 January Imogen Cooper 16 January Barbican Stephen Hough 4 December Royal Festival Hall  Mitsuko Uchida 1 February The pianist standing tallest in this round-up of recent London performances was Sir Stephen Hough, who delighted a packed Barbican audience with a box of surprises that only he could have devised. First, he presented three short pieces by Cécile Chaminade, challenging the usual pigeonholing of this French composer as a purveyor of unimportant salon music. One sensed the ghosts of Chopin, Schumann and Tchaikovsky as Hough teased out the qualities of these finely wrought little pieces, yet this is a composer with a voice of her…

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International Piano (Digital) - 1 Issue, Spring 2025

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