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Month: February 2019

The great Garrick Ohlsson plays Brahms

Posted on February 28, 2019February 28, 2019 by Michael Church
Garrick Ohlsson, Wigmore Hall Garrick Ohlsson ©Dario Acosta Big guns don’t come bigger than Garrick Ohlsson, whose massive but wonderfully malleable sound filled the Wigmore for the first of four B... Read More

Tabla concerto – a contradiction in terms?

Posted on February 21, 2019February 22, 2019 by Michael Church
Symphony Orchestra of India/Dalal/Hussain, Cadogan Hall A hundred years ago, British maps of the world showed large areas in red: the British Empire ‘on which the sun never set’, with India the la... Read More

Trifonov’s perennial mistake

Posted on February 18, 2019February 21, 2019 by Michael Church
Trifonov/LSO/Rattle, Barbican The Barbican is building a series of concerts round the young Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, and his talent deserves the accolade. For his first outing he chose to pla... Read More

Stile Antico’s Valentine

Posted on February 15, 2019February 16, 2019 by Michael Church
Stile Antico, Wigmore Hall The twelve-person conductorless democracy that is Stile Antico started out as a bunch of Oxbridge undergraduates singing for fun in their vacations. Cannily turning profess... Read More

Alexander Gadjiev’s phenomenal pianism

Posted on February 14, 2019February 16, 2019 by Michael Church
Alexander Gadjiev, Purcell Room We’ve seen some blistering pianistic action in the Queen Elizabeth Hall over the past few weeks, but the place where lightning really struck was the humble little Pur... Read More

The amazing Beatrice Rana

Posted on February 9, 2019February 9, 2019 by Michael Church
Beatrice Rana, Queen Elizabeth Hall Beatrice Rana’s recording of Bach’s Goldbergs marked an arresting entry into the lists: how could a young unknown possess such timeless musical wisdom? Her Sout... Read More

A triumphant Katya Kabanova from Richard Jones

Posted on February 7, 2019February 8, 2019 by Michael Church
Katya Kabanova, Royal Opera House It never rains but it pours: three productions of Janacek’s Katya Kabanova running in the same week – excellent ones from Scottish Opera and Welsh National O... Read More

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