Author: jeremy chan
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Seong-Jin Cho’s Electrifying Beethoven 4 with the LPO
Seong-Jin Cho gave a supreme performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto with Ed Gardner leading the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall. Regrettably I was sat high up in the balcony, in the last row to be exact. Tickets for concerts with star Korean pianists are often hard to come by, and I didn’t…
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Ana-Carmen Balestra’s Guildhall Wigmore Prize Recital
“Not your average Wigmore recital” is how I would describe Ana-Carmen Balestra’s concert last night to those who weren’t there. An opera singer by nature (even her name bears traces of an operatic destiny), Ana brought her compelling personality and charm from the theatre stage to the intimate Wigmore Hall and enlarged the space with…
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Charles Owen’s magical recital at Westminster Cathedral Hall
Programme: Chopin Polonaise-Fantasie, op. 61 Schumann Carnaval, op. 9 Chopin Berceuse, op. 57 Chopin Barcarolle, op. 60 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, op. 14 Encore: Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte On Sunday afternoon pianist Charles Owen delivered a magical recital for the Chopin Society UK. It was a concert where Charles…
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Exciting debut for Willow Orchestra and Bogdan Skrypka
Programme: Franz von Suppé Overture to the Queen of Spades Sergei Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 Encore: Shostakovich Waltz from Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 On Thursday evening Willow Orchestra gave its auspicious debut concert at Holy Sepulchre Church under the direction of founder and conductor Bogdan…
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Review: Classical Piano meets…comedy show?
It is the creation of someone who wants to communicate her love for classical music in a much more relatable and contemporary context, who sees classical music as a way of interacting with modern life rather than being insulated from it.
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Two weeks of making music in the mountains of Québec: Part 2
My second week at Orford Musique was a lot more intense than the first. The “studio” cultures of Jean Saulnier and André Laplante were totally different.
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Two weeks of making music in the mountains of Québec: Part 1
A recount of my first week at Orford Musique, the insight I got from Jean Saulnier and the people I met.
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LPO and Kirill Gerstein: “My Homeland”
The beauty of his cantabile tone was utterly arresting.
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Beethoven 4 by Eric Lu, Marin Alsop and the LSO
Right from the very beginning of the concerto, Eric had firmly placed his signature mark on it with the unique, exquisite sound only he could evince from this grand ivory instrument.