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2024-01-13 08:44:00
A shelter where people can be sure of quality and find so much to discover: founder Michael Adda on his record label, La Dolce Volta
[…] they have many things in the pipeline. Pianist Michel Dalberto has recorded clarinet and piano works with the jazz clarinettist Michel Portal. The Belgian pianist, Florian Noack has recorded a disc of transcriptions including a Bach harpsichord concerto and Rimsky Korsakov's Scheherezade, and I want to be like you from The Jungle Book! There are piano trios from Trio Sora, an all-female group who have already recorded Beethoven for Naive. And the Swiss pianist, Cédric Pescia is recording Bach. There will be two new discs with Olivier Latry in Liszt, Dupre and Durufle.The distinguished French pianist Jean-Philippe Collard, who is 75 years old, has recorded his first disc of Bach, transcriptions of organ works by Busoni and others. And Michael points out that Collard may not be making any more recordings. As a boy, Collard sang in the church choir where his father was an organist and was impressed by […]
2019-01-26 08:36:15
Beyond the Three Bs, Wigmore Hall's 2019/2020 season
[…] of Taivaanvalot), Kevin Volans (celebrating his 70th birthday, whilst jazz pianist and composer Vijay Iyer is composer in residence.The centrepiece of the programming is a series of complete cycles. For Beethoven there are cycles of the piano sonatas with Jonathan Biss, the violin sonatas with James Ehnes, the cello sonatas, the quartets with the Belcea Quartet, the piano trios and the string trios, plus a series on Beethoven's piano variations, and Philippa Cassard and Cedric Pescia will perform Liszt's two-piano arrangement of the Ninth Symphony, and Simon Keenlyside performs An die ferne Geliebte. For Brahms, there will be a cycle of his chamber music, with the Castalian String Quartet and friends, Michael Collins and Stephen Hough.The Wigmore Hall was the location for a number of premieres of Britten's works during his lifetime, and during 2019/2020 there will be nine concerts (plus learning events) focused on his music. Allan Clayton will […]
2012-07-05 23:27:01
Cédric Pescia (Aeon)Cédric Pescia's previous discs have ranged from Bach to Messiaen, but John Cage's most regularly heard piano work has also been part of his repertoire for a number of years now. That experience shows; this is a wonderfully fluid performance of one of the most beguiling keyboard works of the last 100 years. For all the careful organisation of Sonatas and Interludes – especially the rhythmic proportioning that determines the structure of each of the 16 sonatas, most of them binary forms like Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas – what matters in performance is their ever-changing palette of colour and texture. Pescia is wonderful at exploiting the resources created by his careful preparation of the piano with the screws, nuts and bolts, and pieces of rubber and plastic that Cage specifies; there's a hypnotic beauty to his playing that seems entirely unselfconscious, as if the prepared piano was just as […]
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