When George Fu lost his father, he turned to Schubert for solace. Fu likened the experience of playing Schubert’s Sonata No 19 in C minor to receiving “a hug from 200 years ago”. Out of this difficult time came a recording, Solitude with Schubert. Impressed with the Schubert project, Karine Hetherington from ArtmuseLondon, went to find…
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Kosuge’s Electrifying Chopin Wraps up ‘Elements’ Project’
For the past 5 years, pianist Yu Kosuge has created a series of four recordings inspired by the Greek concept of the four elements: Fire, Water, Wind and Earth. Last year her ‘Wind’ album really impressed me with its bird-inspired 18th century music by Daquin,Couperin and Rameau. With her Beethoven, the Tempest Sonata No 2, she really took off. ‘Wind’…
Soprano Katharina Konradi sings Schubert, Strauss and Mozart
You may be forgiven for not having heard of soprano, Katharina Konradi. Brought up in the mountainous republic of Kyrgyzstan, Konradi left her homeland in Central Asia in her teens, to go and live in Germany. Since then her star has been steadily rising, in Europe mostly. Her successes in singing competitions has earned her…
Navarra Quartet take on ‘Love and Death’
On the 17th July the Navarra Quartet release ‘Love and Death’ on Orchid Classics, profound themes that power artistic creation. Joaquín Turina’s exotic and passionate La oración del torero (The bullfighter’s prayer) is an invigorating start to the album. Originally a work composed for four lutes in the 1920s, the arrangement for violin, viola…
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