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In memoriam Lars Vogt

Posted on October 12, 2022October 18, 2022 by Michael Church
Lars Vogt remembered, By Michael Church   Can one play vibrato on the piano? Since it’s just a box of hammers, with each making only momentary contact with its string, the common-sense answer m... Read More

Evgeny Kissin on Russian anti-Semitism, in an interview with Michael Church

Posted on August 16, 2022September 9, 2022 by Michael Church
It’s an ill wind… Temporarily prevented from performing in Verbier by tendonitis in his left shoulder, Evgeny Kissin suddenly has time on his hands, and is in a mood, I’m told, to give an interv... Read More

Yoav Levanon’s London debut

Posted on March 20, 2022March 22, 2022 by Michael Church
A new concert series (HP Futures); a new venue (St Martin-in-the-Fields has transformed both its subterranean regions and its artistic programme); and a potential new star in the making: what’s not ... Read More

The magical Sergei Babayan

Posted on June 19, 2019June 20, 2019 by Michael Church
Sergei Babayan, Wigmore hall Hot on the heels of Daniil Trifonov’s triumphant residency at the Barbican came the man responsible for channelling the young Russian’s talent – Sergei Babayan. And ... Read More

Gerstein, Ohlsson, Hewitt, and the magic of Arcadi Volodos

Posted on March 8, 2019March 14, 2019 by Michael Church
Recital round-up No 53 for International Piano Magazine – April 2019 Wigmore Hall: Kirill Gerstein, Feb 24; Garrick Ohlsson, Feb 27 Royal Festival Hall: Angela Hewitt, Feb 26 Barbican: Arcadi Volodo... Read More

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

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

Nobuyuki Tsujii defies the odds

Posted on January 31, 2019February 15, 2019 by Michael Church
Nobuyuki Tsujii, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Nobuyuki Tsujii was born blind thirty years ago, but a phenomenal talent for music has ensured that he won every prize going in Japan before reaching his... Read More

Alan Walker’s magisterial Chopin biography

Posted on December 11, 2018December 16, 2018 by Michael Church
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times By Alan Walker Faber £30.00 727 pp Farrar Strauss & Giroux $40.00 There have been many biographies of Chopin, and countless studies of his works, but this is the... Read More
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