Slipped Disc accepted the Mondo Musica award this weekend in absentia by means of a video link.

The other winners were:

He’s one of the fresh set of BBC New Generation artists.

If he can’t be the next Alfred Brendel he might yet be the new Houdini.

Watch the Swiss pianist Louis Schwizgebel perform his magic tricks.

Some 60,000 New Yorkers saw Alicia Keys call up Israeli artist Idan Raichel and Palestinian qanun player Ali Amr to join her in “We Are Here” at the weekend’s Global Citizen music festival. Watch. Join in. Tell a politician.