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2022-02-22 12:00:00
Gerald Fenech listens to orchestral music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. '... this re-issue still sounds fresh and lively, credit to Adrian Leaper's advocacy for this fine music ...'
2021-11-28 12:00:00
Gerald Fenech listens to music by Eric Coates. 'Adrian Leaper is an avid devotee of this genre, and he delivers performances that sparkle with a rhythmic immediacy that magnifies the flow of each piece.'
2021-03-15 00:00:00
Adrian Leaper conducts Sibelius Symphonies and Violin Concerto
[…] and whither they shall go The dew upon their feet shall manifest. Wallace Stevens - Sunday Morning, VII I couldn't find a better description of the music of Sibelius than this beautiful poem by Wallace Stevens. The connection with elemental nature and man is visible in Sibelius music from the beginning; and if we think about their great performers, Karajan, Berglund, Collins, Davis, Vanska and a myriad more come to mind ... and Leaper, who played the horn as soloist in the Philharmonia for many years. From the post-romantic contractions of the first symphonies to the almost scriabinesque 7th, Leaper leads us along shady yet limpid paths, relying on a dramatic but not condescending rhetoric to forge each of the works into a living block of incandescent stone. With the plus of a clear recording and a precise orquestal performance, this integral is one to keep. […]
2020-09-05 12:27:45
The sheer joy of music making: the Maggini Quartet emerges from hibernation to celebrate the delight of playing together
The Maggini Quartet in Battersea Park - Bandstand Chamber Festival (Photo William Marsey) Beethoven String Quartet in G, Op.18 No. 2, Dvorak String Quartet in F, Op. 96 'American'; Maggini Quartet; Bandstand Chamber Festival in Battersea Park Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 28 August 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) The Maggini Quartet emerges from hibernation for an out-door programme full of the sheer delight in music-makingThe bandstand in Battersea Park is not quite the place where you would expect to find one of Britain's finest string quartets playing but thanks to the Bandstand Chamber Festival, artistic director Anthony Friend, and with the support of Wandsworth Council's Love Parks Wandsworth campaign, on Friday 4 September 2020 the Maggini Quartet (Julian Leaper, Ciaran McCabe, Martin Outram, Michal Kaznowski) performed Beethoven's Quartet in G, Op. 18, no. 2 and Dvorak's Quartet in F, Op. 96, 'American'. It was the quartet's […]
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