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2024-02-06 07:24:00
Late romantic at Wigmore Hall: Timothy Ridout & Frank Dupree in York Bowen and Rebecca Clarke
York Bowen by Elliott & Fry, bromide print (NPG x86430, © National Portrait Gallery, London)Enescu, Fauré, Kreisler, Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata, York Bowen: Viola Sonata No. 1; Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree; Wigmore Hall3 February 2024Youthful muscularity, engaging manner and sweetly singing tone in Timothy Ridout's exploration of early 20th century music for viola with a focus on those inspired by Lionel TertisFollowing on from Simon Callaghan's lunchtime concert performing Cyril Scott [see my review], the evening concert at Wigmore Hall on 3 February 2024 featured viola player Timothy Ridout and pianist Frank Dupree in a programme inspired by viola player Lionel Tertis that featured York Bowen's Viola Sonata no. 1 and Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata along with music by Enescu, Fauré and Fritz Kreisler.Born the same year as Pablo Casals (1876), Lionel Tertis devoted his life to opening composers' and performers' eyes to the viola as a solo instrument. A wide range of […]
2024-01-06 09:54:00
At Kings Place this month, Turkish pianist Can Çakmur celebrates the Hamamatsu Competition which he won in 2018, not to mention embarking on his 12-disc Schubert with BIS
[…] who have become friends and he continues to return to Japan each year for some project or other. This year he will be playing two-piano repertoire with Noriko Ogawa in Hamamatsu.Following his prize-winners disc with BIS (which includes music by Schubert, Haydn, Bartok, Fazil Say, Fuyuhiko Sasaki and Beethoven, transcribed Liszt), Can followed this up with a recording of Liszt's transcription of Schubert's Schwanengesang, and then Without Borders with music by Bartok, Mitropoulos, Saygun and Enescu, and he has now embarked on his Schubert+ series, the second volume of which will be released in February 2024 and contains Schubert's Three Piano Pieces D.946 and Four Impromptus D.935 juxtaposed with Brahms' Four Piano Pieces Op.119. The first volume, which paired Schubert's early A minor sonata D537 and A major sonata D959 with Schoenberg's Three Pieces, Op. 11, was the Editor's Choice in the August 2023 edition of Gramophone magazine.The Schubert+ series […]
2023-12-18 15:57:45
Three Pianists, December 2023
This Week in Classical Music: December 18, 2023. Three Pianists. During the last month, we were preoccupied with composers and completely ignored the performers, who bring their music to the public. So today we bring you three wonderful pianists: Radu Lupu, a Romanian, Mitsuko Uchida, born in Japan, and András Schiff, a British-Hungarian. All three belong to the same generation: Lupu was born in 1945 (on November 30th), Uchida in 1948 (on December 20th), and Schiff – in 1953, on December 21st. Uchida and Schiff are still performing, Lupu died on April 17th of last year. Radu Lupu is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of his time. He studied in Moscow with Heinrich Neuhaus, who also taught Richter and Gilels. In the three years from 1966 to 1969, he won three major piano competitions, the Cliburn, the Enescu, and the Leeds, and embarked on an international career with successful […]
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