Tag: Beethoven
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 MoreIn praise of Paul Lewis
Paul Lewis, Royal Festival Hall, London The British pianist Paul Lewis doesn’t have a wide repertoire, but he focuses on his chosen composers with white-hot intensity. For a while this meant wall-to... Read MoreChineke! ushers in a triumphant makeover for the Queen Elizabeth Hall
Chineke! Queen Elizabeth Hall Over the last half-century the outbuildings of the Royal Festival Hall have been threatened with one grandiose makeover after another: people have always been ambi... Read MoreKissin at the Barbican
Evgeny Kissin, Barbican Now forty-seven, Evgeny Kissin is no longer music’s most miraculous child: he’s become a trim and stately middle-aged gent, and his pianism has matured commensurately. Itâ€... 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 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 MoreThe Emersons play the Grosse Fuge
Emerson Quartet, St John’s Smith Square, London, 1.11.17 ‘Incomprehensible’ was one leading critic’s verdict when Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge was premiered in 1825. ‘This work will be c... Read MoreEvgeny Kissin, a child of history
Emerging from a rare sabbatical, Evgeny Kissin – the world’s most acclaimed classical pianist – has just published his autobiography. He has also just married a childhood friend, and he’s ... Read MoreIs ‘late style’ a meaningful critical concept?
Out, brief candle! As life nears its end, thoughts can acquire urgent clarity. This truth may not be particularly perceptible in literature, because novelists find endless ways of disguising it. But i... Read More- 2 of 3
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