Tag: Bach
The Leeds International Piano Comnpetition, 2018
Leeds International Piano Competition, 2018 When the redoubtable Fanny Waterman set up the Leeds Piano Competition in 1963, no one could have predicted its longevity, or the effect it would have on pi... Read MoreThe indefatigable Rogers Covey-Crump
St John Passion, Jesus College, Cambridge The geographical spread of classical music in Britain is shockingly inequitable: 90 percent of the events take place in or around London. But two other... Read MoreLondon recitals: Montero, Trifonov, Gavric, Olafsson, Jacobson
Wigmore Hall: Gabriela Montero, Nov 14; Daniil Trifonov, Dec 7u; Ivana Gavric, Dec 28 St John’s Smith Square: Vikingur Olafsson, Nov 15; Julian Jacobson, Nov 26 It’s not keyboard artistry w... Read MoreThe heroism of Angela Hewitt
Angela Hewitt, Wigmore Hall, 26.1.18 There’s something heroic about Angela Hewitt’s Bach. This Canadian pianist has made Bach’s keyboard music the core of her performing life, twice taking it on... Read MoreFerschtman and Rabinovich… Schiff…Perenyi…
Liza Ferschtman/Roman Rabinovich, Wigmore Hall, 30.12.17 Roman Rabinovich – credit Balazs Borocz When a work is described as ‘uncommonly difficult for all concerned’, as Gerald Larner... Read MoreAnne Page plays Die Kunst der Fuge
Anne Page, Royal Festival Hall, 21.11.17 JS Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge – The Art of Fugue – is one of music’s most teasing mysteries. As the culmination of his lifelong experiment in cou... Read MoreEn passant: Tom Cairns’s Traviata… Andras Schiff’s majestic Bach…
La traviata, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 2017 La traviata may be one of that small handful of operas which everyone loves, but since the revival of Tom Cairns’s production is turning out to ... Read MoreProm 63 – Bach’s Mass in B minor 2016
Bach’s Mass in B minor towers above all other choral works, and it can survive splendidly intact even with blemishes in performance; so it was with this one by Les Arts Florissants under the directi... Read More- 2 of 2
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