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2024-03-25 18:25:45
SCRUTINY | TSO Under Conductor Ryan Bancroft Sounds Superb In Program Of Shostakovich, Prokofiev & Clyne
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Ryan Bancroft and soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason, deliver superb Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Clyne.
2024-03-23 15:27:00
R.I.P. Maurizio Pollini (1942-2024)
[…] lack of depth or some other such nonsense. I read review after review in which the musical equivalent of the nouveaux riches would lament his technical ability, failing to realise that, like that of any great musician, it was in the service of a musical performance that would have been nothing without it. By now, of course, I knew among other recorded performances that simply astounding DG Originals CD, bringing together two original recordings, of Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Webern, and Boulez. Prokofiev and Stravinsky were no longer in his repertory by the time I heard him, but both the Webern (Variations, op.27) and Boulez (Piano Sonata no.2) I would hear live more than once. One of those occasions combined the two, in a 2006 recital at the Salzburg Festival. It had been advertised, somewhat surprisingly, as an all-Mozart recital, but then it was the composer’s 250th anniversary year. I had longed […]
2024-03-19 07:43:00
Evgeny Kissin to give Wigmore Hall recital in aid of the Jeremy Singer Charitable Trust established in memory of his cousin
[…] and has fond memories of Jeremy.Jeremy Singer read History at Brasenose College and the Trust intends to fund bursaries at the college, the recipients will be known as ‘Jeremy Singer Scholars’ and an annual dinner will be given by the College for the present and past scholars. Evgeny Kissin's recital on 29 June at Wigmore Hall will feature Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 27, Chopin's Nocturne, Op 48 No 2 and Fantaisie, Op 49, Brahms' Four Ballades, Op 10 and Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 2. Evgeny Kissin is generously donating his performance and afterwards he will be joining everyone for a post-performance champagne reception and light supper.Further information from the Trust's website.
2024-03-12 12:40:00
Aimard/RSB/Popelka - Schoenberg and Mahler, 9 March 2024
[…] should not be unduly reductive about such matters, but the deceptions of too-ready communication and the fanaticism it breeds stand with us now almost as strongly as they did in 1942. When the orchestra sang what came across as a great song of protest, it was difficult not to think of current predicaments, all the more so as Mahlerian echoes issued from a twilight zone. All the while, Aimard had a pianistic work-out to give Prokofiev a run for his money. The Adagio section emerged as consequent, then, as its counterpart in the First Chamber Symphony, reminding us of the deep roots of many of Schoenberg’s formal preoccupations. It was just as songful and soulful too, though seemingly still under assault from all around, Bachian string figures weaponised with terror. They spoke from Hell, and they spread. Aimard’s piano part seemed nonetheless to bind everything together, enabling a turn around. […]
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