Nikolai Lugansky Wigmore Hall, London Nikolai Lugansky was a typical Soviet prodigy, able at five to learn a Beethoven sonata by ear, before he could even read music. As one of the last survivors of t...Read More
Michael Church – live roundup March 2025 Wigmore Hall: Roman Rabinovich 17 Nov; Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, 27 Nov; Nikolai Lugansky 8 Dec; Kit Armstrong 22 Dec; Danny Driver 2 Jan 2025; Alim Beise...Read More
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
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
Mitridate, re di Ponto, Royal Opera house, London Nobody ever talks about Graham Vick’s 26-year-old production of Mitridate, re di Ponto – it seemed to have sunk without trace – but Coven...Read More