| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 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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| 13-Jan-2013 Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: Fifth floor | Bach, Schumann and Scharwenka at Le Salon de Musiques |
 An entire century. Actually, it’s been 101 years and some months if we want to be specific. That’s how long it took for US audiences to hear the magisterial Piano Quintet in B minor, Op. 118 by German composer Philipp Scharwenka. Through no fault of the music, I should add.
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| 24-Jul-2012 Shirehall | Clarinet contrasts with Emma Johnson at the Three Choirs Festival |
 This was a fine demonstration of the fact that the Three Choirs Festival is not just about singing. Nor is it confined to the cathedral, as this morning’s recital took place in the elegance of Hereford’s Shirehall. There was a capacity audience of around 400 in the bright and airy room, restful in pale blue and white, with few adornments apart from a frieze of gilded instruments in the corners above the stage.Read full review... | |
| 7-May-2012 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | The Evolution of Musical Melodrama with Nagano and the Bavarian State Opera Soloists |
 Kent Nagano has a long history of inventive programming, particularly in the chamber music repertoire. His first real break came in 1982 when he was personally chosen by Frank Zappa to record some of his orchestral music with the London Symphony. In 2008 he collaborated with Zebedee Nungak, an Inuit writer, taking a translated version of Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat on tour in Nunavik, the Inuit homeland in Quebec.Read full review... | |
