Tag: Wigmore Hall
The heroism of Angela Hewitt
Angela Hewitt, Wigmore Hall, 26.1.18 There’s something heroic about Angela Hewitt’s Bach. This Canadian pianist has made Bach’s keyboard music the core of her performing life, twice taking it on... Read MoreFerschtman and Rabinovich… Schiff…Perenyi…
Liza Ferschtman/Roman Rabinovich, Wigmore Hall, 30.12.17 Roman Rabinovich – credit Balazs Borocz When a work is described as ‘uncommonly difficult for all concerned’, as Gerald Larner... Read MoreEn passant: Celebrating Charpentier…Daniil Trifonov’s Achilles heel… the wonderful Arts Florissants…
Early Opera Company,Wigmore Hall, 8.12.17 Everyone knows the overture to Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Te Deum, though few have heard of that seventeenth-century French composer. After being pre... Read MoreSavall at the Wigmore
Jordi Savall and Hesperion Ensemble, Wigmore Hall, 29.10.17 Who said the Wigmore Hall, the world’s temple of chamber music, was stuffy? Disregard for a moment the devoted crowd who routinely ... Read MoreEn passant: a woeful ENO Aida, but a triumphant Barber… Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s first recital… Faust and Melnikov play Mozart…and Covent Garden revives its Vepres siciliennes…
Aida, Coliseum An opera house needs a story to launch the season, and ENO had three. First, their chief executive had suddenly announced her premature departure. Second, Aida would be the first chance... Read MoreEn passant: Yuja Wang… Jean-Guihen Queyras… La nuova musica…War of the Granges…Yardbird
Yuja Wang, Royal Festival Hall The elfin Yuja Wang has now reached thirty, so must be judged by grown-up standards. A shame that she ducked out of the ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata originally billed for ... Read MoreIPM critical round-ups 40 and 41
IPM roundup 40 Wigmore Hall: Sunwook Kim Oct 25; Alexei Volodin Nov 2; Martha Argerich and Alberto Portugheis December 12; Beatrice Rana Jan 16; Luca Buratto 23 Jan; Barbican: Daniil Trifonov Jan 21; ... Read MoreIs ‘late style’ a meaningful critical concept?
Out, brief candle! As life nears its end, thoughts can acquire urgent clarity. This truth may not be particularly perceptible in literature, because novelists find endless ways of disguising it. But i... Read MoreNick van Bloss – and how he harnessed his Tourette’s syndrome
In 2011 I published the profile below of the pianist Nick van Bloss in ‘The Independent on Sunday’, at a time when he was taking tentative steps towards a renewed concert and recording ca... Read More- 3 of 3
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