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Perfectly executed: Piers Lane at Wigmore Hall
Monday 24th January, Wigmore Hall Schubert – German Dances, Ländler, Valses Sentimentales; Brahms – 4 Klavierstücke, Op 119; Beethoven – Piano Sonata Opus 110; Chopin – Four Ballades Encores: Chopin –...
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On the road with Paul Lewis
Matthew Stadlen spends the day with concert pianist Paul Lewis as he gives a Schubert recital at the Wigmore Hall. Watch the programme here Tagged: concert pianist, Paul Lewis, Schubert
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Playing Schubert in the shadow of Brendel
To the Wigmore Hall last night for an evening of late Schubert piano music, performed by Paul Lewis. A few years ago, Lewis stamped his mark emphatically upon the international piano world with his...
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Review: Elisabeth Leonskaja at Wigmore Hall
The mercurial and fiercely independent Russian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja, friend and protégé of the late great Sviatoslav Richter, stamped her mark emphatically upon some of Schubert’s most...
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Reblogged: Why Schubert?
Music journalist and author Jessica Duchen makes a passionate case for the music of Franz Schubert in a recent article on her blog. I’ve had a lifelong fascination with Schubert’s music, from an LP...
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Diploma programme
Going back over old territory here, but by chance I found a film I made when I was rehearsing for my ATCL Diploma recital last winter with my page turner (who also happens to be a very good friend of...
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I ♥ SCHUBERT!
Today BBC Radio Three began a week-long Schubert-fest, called ‘The Spirit of Schubert’, to mark the 215th anniversary of Franz Peter Schubert’s birth. The season will attempt to get inside the music...
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What the great composers teach us
When I was learning the piano as a child, it wasn’t obvious to me why my teacher insisted that I learnt certain repertoire, for example, by Bach, Beethoven or Chopin (my Grade 8 programme featured...
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Concert review: Alexandre Tharaud at Wigmore Hall
Despite the bad weather, the gales, and the cancelled trains, I managed to get into central London yesterday (thanks to the District Line which was fully operational from Richmond) to view the ‘Honoré...
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Concert review: Yoon Chung at 1901 Arts Club
The delightful 1901 Arts Club, tucked away down a side street close to Waterloo Station, seems just about ideal for intimate chamber recitals, and the perfect retreat on a cold November evening to...
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Paul Badura-Skoda at St John’s, Smith Square
Saturday 10th May, 2014 – St John’s, Smith Square, London Chopin Waltzes – A minor, Op.34/2, C sharp minor, Op.64/2, D flat, Op.64/1; Nocturne, op. posth., Four Mazurkas, op. 30, Barcarolle, op. 60...
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The Roskell Piano Trio at Sutton House
Heather Tuach (cello), Penelope Roskell (piano) and Colin Scobie (violin) Following their previous sell-out concerts, the popular Roskell Piano Trio returns to Sutton House, a fine Tudor house in east...
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Fidelity
Over the past weeks and months I have been working, amongst other things, on pieces by two great composers of music for the piano – Beethoven and Schubert (the Piano Sonata in A flat, Opus 26, and the...
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Meet the Artist…… Barry Douglas
Who or what inspired you to take up the piano, and make it your career? I was fortunate to be playing many instruments as a child and conducting choirs and chamber orchestras. Then suddenly I met a...
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Alexandre Tharaud at Queen Elizabeth Hall
I first heard French pianist Alexandre Tharaud at the Wigmore Hall in October 2013, and his performance of Bach, Schubert and Chopin left me somewhat underwhelmed. In his concert at London’s Queen...
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“Driving across Canada”– Schubert’s late piano music
Recently, I had the privilege of hearing the legendary Romanian pianist, Radu Lupu. The concert took place in Reading, the place of my birth, and it felt strange to be returning, for the first time, to...
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Concert review: Maria Joao Pires & Pavel Kolesnikov at Wigmore Hall
Teacher and pupil took the stage at London’s Wigmore Hall on Friday 20th February in a joint concert by Maria João Pires and Pavel Kolesnikov featuring late works by Schubert and Beethoven, and...
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Meet the Artist……Shai Wosner, pianist
Who or what inspired you to take up the piano and make it your career? My family owned a piano but no one was playing it. I was somehow intrigued by it and began to pick out all kinds of cheesy radio...
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What the great composers teach us
When I was learning the piano as a child, it wasn’t obvious to me why my teacher insisted that I learnt certain repertoire, for example, by Bach, Beethoven or Chopin (my Grade 8 programme featured...
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Nostalgia
Guest post by Dr Michael Low Nostalgia has a two-fold meaning: firstly, it is a longing for the past, and secondly, within such longing, an attempt to recreate and glorify the values of a bygone age....
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