Author: jeremy chan
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CD Review: KaJeng Wong’s “God Pray Love”
“KaJeng brings to it a deep and personal idea of what programming should be like, a skilled honed through years of experimenting and performing, and takes his listeners on a journey that is simultaneously personal and universal.”
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Paul Lewis at the Wigmore Hall
A very different kind of performance from a very different kind of pianist. Schubert Sonatas at the Wigmore Hall.
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William Bracken: Taming the Turangalîla
An interview with pianist William Bracken in which he talks about Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony and his experience of learning it.
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Matthew Johnson: More than a Musician’s Photographer
I talked to Matthew Johnson about being a musician’s photographer and his own creative journey which crosses paths with classical music.
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Olli Mustonen plays Prokofiev at Wigmore Hall
A rather disappointing Prokofiev sonata cycle and sadly not one for the books.
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Clare Hammond on “Ghosts and Whispers”
Clare Hammond talks about teaming up with composer John Woolrich and filmmakers the Quay Brothers in their grand multimedia project with sinister undertones, “Ghosts and Whispers”.
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London Piano Festival 2022: Paul Roberts and Charles Owen exploring Liszt
I was really touched by the fragile beauty that he achieved through this inspiration, an inspiration which came from words as much as sound.
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Noriko Ogawa and Katya Apekisheva at the London Piano Festival 2022
Played together as sets, the preludes give the audience short and sweet musical vignettes to bring home in their memories as inspirational souvenirs.
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London Piano Festival 2022: Schubertiade
There were a lot of crossing and joining of hands tonight, and even some crossing of feet, at the Schubertiade of the London Piano Festival
Literally Left-handed 