On a rare visit to the UK, the Russian pianist's Schumann lingers in the memory long after Daniel Harding conducts Mahler's Seventh Symphony.

He will perform music by Debussy, Schumann, Harold Arlen, as well as himself, playing both the piano and a Lumatone, the first time a musician has performed on this instrument in the hall.

Mendelssohn’s piano concertos are not performed as often as those of his late classical and early romantic era peers, and one reason may be that they are not on the same level as the works of ...