Tag: Wigmore Hall
Anderszewski celebrates his fiftieth at the Wigmore in typically unorthodox style
Piotr Anderszewski, Wigmore Hall In the strait-laced world of concert pianism, Piotr Anderszewski has long been the joker in the pack. He’s capable of delivering a witty bar-by-bar analysis of his ... Read MoreGerstein, Ohlsson, Hewitt, and the magic of Arcadi Volodos
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 MoreThe great Garrick Ohlsson plays Brahms
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 MoreStile Antico’s Valentine
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 MoreSokolov, Kissin, Schiff at Verbier; Ming Xie and Babayan at the Wigmore; Rorberts at the Barbican
Verbier can still spring surprises, even at the venerable age of twenty-five. Marking that anniversary with a gala concert this summer, they corralled more musical celebrities on stage than had ever b... Read MoreFrederic Rzewski, Igor Levit, Annette Morreau – and the creation of a new work
Igor Levit, Wigmore Hall It isn’t often critics put their money where their mouth is and commission new works, but that’s what Annette Morreau has generously done – in tandem with the Wigmor... Read MoreIsserlis and Melnikov, the odd couple
Steven Isserlis/Alexander Melnikov, Wigmore Hall, 21.21.18 At first glance, Steven Isserlis and Alexander Melnikov might seem an odd couple – a mop-headed weirdo with a cello, and a priest-like pres... Read MoreDai Fujikura and his little box of tricks
Fujikura Portrait, Wigmore Hall, 17.2.18 A protégé of Pierre Boulez and George Benjamin, the Japanese-born composer Dai Fujikura has long been a favourite with British avant-garde musicians, thanks ... Read MoreSimon Trpceski on a new path
Simon Trpceski and friends, Wigmore Hall, 21.1.18 We are accustomed to thinking of Simon Trpceski as a superlative pianist with a hotline to Beethoven, Brahms and the most rebarbative music of ... Read More- 2 of 3
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