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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

Anderszewski celebrates his fiftieth at the Wigmore in typically unorthodox style

Posted on May 4, 2019May 21, 2019 by Michael Church
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 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

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

Sokolov, Kissin, Schiff at Verbier; Ming Xie and Babayan at the Wigmore; Rorberts at the Barbican

Posted on September 20, 2018September 23, 2018 by Michael Church
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 More

Frederic Rzewski, Igor Levit, Annette Morreau – and the creation of a new work

Posted on April 14, 2018June 7, 2018 by Michael Church
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 More

Isserlis and Melnikov, the odd couple

Posted on February 22, 2018February 22, 2018 by Michael Church
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 More

Dai Fujikura and his little box of tricks

Posted on February 18, 2018February 18, 2018 by Michael Church
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 More

Simon Trpceski on a new path

Posted on February 2, 2018February 4, 2018 by Michael Church
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
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