| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 24-Mar-2013 Institut Français (French Institute): Library | Traversing the globe: Ferenc Vizi at the Institut Français |
 In a quiet backstreet just a couple of minutes’ walk from South Kensington underground station stands the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni. It is one branch of a global network that exists to promote cross-cultural dialogue and to showcase the best of French culture, be that through food, media, or music. The Art Deco building boasts a ciné lumière and a wood-panelled library, and it was the latter that formed the venue for an intimate piano recital given by the pianist Ferenc Vizi as part of the Institut’s recent festival It’s all about Piano!
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| 8-Feb-2013 Kapelle Gstaad | Some memorable moments in a mixed cello concert |
 Reviewing concerts by young performers can be a tricky business, particularly when the material is highly varied and the way it is played even more so. Whenever I formed an opinion about the cello playing of Pablo Ferrández in today’s concert in Gstaad Chapel, I found myself contradicting it in the following piece. So here are some of the highlights of a concert by a young performer who has great promise but is some way off the finished article.
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| 22-Nov-2012 Oslo Concert Hall (Konserthus) | A somewhat Spanish evening with the Oslo Philharmonic |
 Last Thursday’s concert with the Oslo Philharmonic featured four pieces with little or no connection to each other, other than three of the pieces being either written by Spanish-speaking composers or actually being about Spain. Yet, apart from one piece, it all came together into a rather coherent whole.
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| 9-Nov-2012 St James's Church, Piccadilly | El Nuevo Mundo: Orlando Chamber Choir perform works from 16th-century Spain and its South American colonies |
 When we look back to the disease and mistreatment that arrived with the European colonisation of South America, the role of music in the whole affair is not often the first issue that comes to mind. In actual fact, when Christopher Columbus and other early Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores landed in the Bahamas in the late 15th century, music was used both to affirm cultural identities and to improve interaction with the natives. One of the main missions for settlers in the New World was evangelism.Read full review... | |
