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Reger Cello Suites, Richard Harwood, Malling Abbey review - Bach with a dash of acidSaturday, 23 September 2017
Three “little greats,” as Opera North might put it, proved just the thing to cleanse the palate in a quiet place the afternoon after the LSO/Rattle Stravinsky trilogy. Composed following a breakdown in 1914, the year after the premiere of The Rite... Read more... |
Classical CDs Weekly: Mompou, Schubert, Martinů, ShostakovichSaturday, 05 August 2017
Mompou: Fêtes Lointaines Steffen Schleiermacher (piano) (MDG)“I am not a composer and don't want to be regarded as one… somehow, I always have the feeling that it comes to me from outside.” There is indeed something otherworldly about Federico... Read more... |
Chineke! Orchestra, Brighton Festival / Saleem Ashkar, Wigmore HallMonday, 08 May 2017
Anyone who missed the opening Southbank concerts of the Chinike! Orchestra, figurehead of a foundation which aims to give much-needed help to young Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) classical musicians, could and now can (on YouTube) catch snippets of... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Tallinn: From Dusk to Black at Estonian Music DaysSaturday, 29 April 2017
Many other top Estonian musicians, performing among other works 30 premieres of music by their compatriots in just over a week, might have been equally deserving candidates for the lead image. But perhaps an even more appropriate image might have... Read more... |
Classical CDs Weekly: Telemann, Alban Gerhardt, Wiener SymphonikerSaturday, 11 March 2017
Telemann Fantasias for solo violin Aisha Orazbayeva (violin) (Prah Recordings)Telemann, too readily dismissed as a plodding hack, gets a radical makeover here; the tracklisting makes it seem as if Aisha Orazbayeva is giving us six of the... Read more... |
Apocalyptica, RFHThursday, 02 March 2017
Apocalyptica are a band that became famous for playing Metallica on cellos. And tonight they’re playing only Metallica covers because it's 20 years since they released Plays Metallica by Four Cellos, their debut album. The quartet formed at Finland’... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Rome: Bartoli and Pappano on home turfMonday, 06 February 2017
Wherever you are in the world, opportunities to see Cecilia Bartoli perform are hard to come by. A one-off chance to see her sing Mozart in Rome was not to be missed. This was a rare homecoming for Bartoli. Born in Rome, she studied at the city’s... Read more... |
Gerhardt, Aurora Orchestra, Collon, Kings PlaceMonday, 09 January 2017
What's not to like, or love, would have to be the sensible response to both the opening programme of Kings Place's year-long Cello Unwrapped festival at Kings Place and its life-enhancing execution. Symmetries abounded – between Alban Gerhardt's... Read more... |
Natalie Clein: 'The cello is part of my being'Friday, 06 January 2017
The cello is so deeply engrained in my fingers, my imagination, it’s part of my being – my life would feel amputated without it. You fall in love with the instrument, the music, and then you embark on the life-long task of trying to get closer to... Read more... |
Kanneh-Mason, Fantasia Orchestra, Fetherstonhaugh, St Gabriel's PimlicoWednesday, 21 December 2016
Sheku Kanneh-Mason isn't just BBC Young Musician 2016 - he's the year's top player in my books, a master at any level. Despite a contract with Decca, starting with the Shostakovich First Cello Concerto he played in the competition finale, he looks... Read more... |
Young, Gifted and Classical: The Making of a Maestro, BBC FourMonday, 21 November 2016
This is a documentary about a minority in a minority, a riff on young, gifted and black. And how better to attract both practitioners and audiences to classical music than by encouraging diversity? The totally startling statistic was that in the UK... Read more... |
Isserlis, Mustonen, Wigmore HallWednesday, 05 October 2016
For a BBC Radio 3 lunchtime's hour of music, cellist Steven Isserlis's latest collaboration with that most individual of pianists Olli Mustonen went astonishingly deep. The surprises were equal in its two halves - the first a through-conceived... Read more... |
