| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 2-Nov-2012 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | Restraint pays off for Murray Perahia in New York |
 A broken crane dangles precariously over 57th Street near Carnegie Hall at the moment. Thankfully for the hall it seems the danger has passed, but rather than cancel this concert along with so many others in New York over the past week, Carnegie delayed the recital from Friday to Sunday and moved it to Avery Fisher Hall. It’s a less satisfactory space for solo work, but it’s a space nonetheless, and I’m sure this Bronx native was pleased to perform as the city gets back on its feet.
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| 24-Oct-2012 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | Murray Perahia in concert at the Maison Symphonique |
 Murray Perahia is nothing short of a legend in the piano world. Though his programming is markedly less broad than someone like, say, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, he makes up for it with absolute dedication to the music he loves and believes has the most artistic merit. This was a rather strange program – not because of the composers selected (this was pretty much standard Perahia stock), but because of the abundance of small character pieces and lack of standard “concert works” such as sonatas.Read full review... | |
| 13-Jan-2012 St Paul's School: The Wathen Hall | John Lill makes magic at the Wathen Hall |
 When one thinks of the ‘X factor’, it’s fairly certain that the first image that comes to mind is not that of a quiet, unassuming man in his mid-sixties, clad in evening dress. But Simon Cowell is missing a trick: even without the sparkling trappings of show-biz, pianist John Lill is steeped in the ‘X factor’, that indefinable ingredient which separates the very good performers from the magical ones.Read full review... | |
