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Live piano round-up December 25

Posted on March 8, 2026March 20, 2026 by Michael Church
Wigmore Hall: Richard Goode 30 Sept; Andras Schiff 5 Oct; Mitsuko Uchida 12 Oct; Stephen Kovacevich and Martha Argerich 22 Oct Royal Festival Hall: Vikingur Olafsson 25 Sept Queen Elizabeth Hall: Benj... Read More

London – Live piano round-up September 2025

Posted on March 8, 2026March 20, 2026 by Michael Church
Wigmore Hall: Andras Schiff 7 June; Nicolas Namoradze 23 June; Kirill Gerstein 16 July Barbican: Evgeny Kissin 25 June; Ragged School Festival: Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy 20 June   Nicolas Namo... Read More

Review round-up for piano recitals in Spring 2025

Posted on February 25, 2025July 26, 2025 by Michael Church
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

Ragged Music Festival – a new use for an old and venerable school

Posted on September 18, 2019September 18, 2019 by Michael Church
Ragged Music Festival, Copperfield Road, East London Beating a path through the back streets of Tower Hamlets, I find myself at a stunningly good chamber concert. It begins with Tamsin Waley-Cohen an... 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

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

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

Proms 67 and 68: Bolivars and Semiramide – 2016

Posted on September 5, 2016September 9, 2016 by Michael Church
Every time Gustavo Dudamel brings his Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra to London, they get a bit better: once a spirited youth orchestra, they are now grown up, and in technical terms approaching inte... Read More

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