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Verdi: Macbeth at Mid Wales Opera | Live Review

Monday, March 11, 2024

| Opera Now

'This is an opera that stands or falls more than most on the quality of the two main principals, and in Bouton and the Welsh soprano Mari Wyn Williams who sang Lady Macbeth, MWO struck gold'

Grieg: Piano Concerto, Op 16. Schumann: Piano Concerto, Op 54 (Elisabeth Leonskaja)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Leonskaja seems to hold the Grieg Concerto – which, despite many similarities to the Schumann, postdates it by 23 years – at something of an arm’s length

‘La Danse’ (Martin James Bartlett)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

One of the most playful sprints through Ravel’s La valse I’ve heard

Mozart: Piano Concertos – No 18, K456; No 21, K467 (Jonathan Fournel)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Fournel’s assured pianism belies the fact that this release marks his recorded concerto debut

Bartók: Bagatelles. Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book 2. Szymanowski: Mazurkas, Op 50 (Piotr Anderszewski)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

This is an extraordinary album; hardly for those of a nervous disposition or for late-night listening

‘Berlin 1923’ – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1, Op 15. Schulhoff: Piano Concerto No 2, Op 43 (Herbert Schuch)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

The finale is a total success, with good dynamic variety and a marvellously rowdy delivery of the central subordinate theme

Field: 18 Nocturnes (Tyler Hay)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Tyler Hay’s performance draws as much attention to Field’s similarity with Dussek, Hummel, late Clementi and even Beethoven as to his influence on Chopin

Saint-Saëns: Six études pour piano, Op 52 (Bärenreiter)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Bärenreiter has done Saint-Säens proud with this release

‘Natural Connection – Piano Music Inspired by the Natural World’ (Leon McCawley)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Obviously there’s room in the market for compilations like this, but Leon McCawley’s artistry surely deserves a better vehicle

N Boulanger: Fantaisie variée. Fauré: Après un rêve, etc. Hahn Piano Concerto (William Youn)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

I doubt if Youn’s more neutral performance will win new friends for music dismissed as difficult and obscure

Wagner: Famous Opera Scenes (Nikolai Lugansky)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Lugansky takes us on an eternal journey, metamorphosing his Steinway into a larger-than-life orchestra intricate in texture, colour and associative imagery

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2, Op 83. Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, D760 (Elly Ney)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Ney is a classic case of the divided self, the frequent division of an artist’s outer and inner nature

Brown: Baroquery, Op 105. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 99 (Nathan Williamson)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Taken as a whole, this is a remarkably assured set, one that in whole or in part deserves the widest currency

‘Schubert + Brahms’ – Schubert: Impromptus, D935. Drei Klavierstücke, D946. Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op 119 (Can Çakmur)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

It would be difficult to imagine a less evasive Schubertian, or one who turns such an ironic eye on the amicable and domestic world of the ‘Schubertiads’

The New Busoni: Exercises and Studies for the Piano, Volumes 1 and 2 (Edition Breitkopf)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

There is a wonderful holistic unity, an organic authenticity about the way the exercises are presented

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Verdi: Macbeth at Mid Wales Opera | Live Review

Grieg: Piano Concerto, Op 16. Schumann: Piano Concerto, Op 54 (Elisabeth Leonskaja)

‘La Danse’ (Martin James Bartlett)

Mozart: Piano Concertos – No 18, K456; No 21, K467 (Jonathan Fournel)

Bartók: Bagatelles. Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book 2. Szymanowski: Mazurkas, Op 50 (Piotr Anderszewski)

‘Berlin 1923’ – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1, Op 15. Schulhoff: Piano Concerto No 2, Op 43 (Herbert Schuch)

Field: 18 Nocturnes (Tyler Hay)

Saint-Saëns: Six études pour piano, Op 52 (Bärenreiter)

‘Natural Connection – Piano Music Inspired by the Natural World’ (Leon McCawley)

N Boulanger: Fantaisie variée. Fauré: Après un rêve, etc. Hahn Piano Concerto (William Youn)

Wagner: Famous Opera Scenes (Nikolai Lugansky)

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2, Op 83. Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, D760 (Elly Ney)

Brown: Baroquery, Op 105. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 99 (Nathan Williamson)

‘Schubert + Brahms’ – Schubert: Impromptus, D935. Drei Klavierstücke, D946. Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op 119 (Can Çakmur)

The New Busoni: Exercises and Studies for the Piano, Volumes 1 and 2 (Edition Breitkopf)

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