Category: Music
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London Piano Festival 2022: A Conversation with co-founder Charles Owen
200 years on, the Schubertian idea of camaraderie and friendship among artists has travelled across Europe and come to rest at the heart of England’s bustling capital, London, in the form of the London Piano Festival, brainchild of acclaimed pianists Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva.
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Tamara Stefanovich at the London Piano Festival 2022
Watching one of Tamara’s recital is like watching an entire series of Breaking Bad; it all makes sense but the ending is the furthest thing you can imagine happening from the first note she plays.
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My Final Recital Programme Notes
I often find programme notes at concerts to be dreadfully dull with their objective, third-person description of instrumentations and key changes, so I am going to offer you perfectly biased opinions of the pieces I am going to play / am playing / have just played
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Igor Levit’s Masterclass at the Royal Academy of Music
It’s only April but I have decided that one of my greatest musical regrets in 2022 will certainly be missing Igor Levit’s Wigmore recital
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Observations of a Celestial in an Orchestra
Who knew banging out F-sharp crotchet beats would be so difficult?
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Yoav Levanon’s UK Debut Recital
Serious déjà vu last night when Franz Liszt took leave of his grave to perform a stunning recital for us in the form of a young Israeli pianist called Yoav Levanon.
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Pollini at 80
There was great narrative drive in his playing–never did he once compromise the voicing of the melodies, even at technically treacherous bits–and I thought the last movement of the Fantasie was beautiful played at the rather brisker-than-normal tempo and devoid of sloppy sentimentality.
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Tamara Stefanovich’s 20 Sonatas at Southbank Centre
Went to see Tamara Stefanovich play her marathon of 20 sonatas today, what an incredible experience. She played 20 sonatas from across the history of the sonata form, mixing Scarlatti with Hindemith, Soler with Ustvolskaya to create the most amazing cocktail of classical music I have ever tasted! She divided the sonatas into three recitals…
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Ballet for the first time!
Went to my first ballet in a long while, and when I say long I mean at least fifteen years! In fact, to my conscious memory, I have never seen a ballet before! And boy did I enjoy the Royal Ballet’s production of Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” at the Royal Opera House tonight (I know,…
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