The 2024 London Piano Festival opened with fanfare at King’s Place, London, as renowned pianists, Charles Owen, Katya Apekisheva and Lara Melda, performed Mozart’s Piano Concertos with the Carducci String Quartet* Apekisheva brought her intense concentration and intelligence to Mozart’s exquisite Concerto in A, K414, the Andante movement being particularly delicious! Charles Owen’s beaming countenance…
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Debussy’s and Shostakovich’s Preludes performed at King’s Place
For the London Piano Festival at King’s Place, Katya Apekisheva and Noriko Ogawa presented a programme of 20th century preludes. Preludes are mostly associated with J.S. Bach and his masterly eighteenth-century Well Tempered Clavier, where the prelude and the accompanying fugue represented two short movements written in the same key. Chopin rebranded the prelude and made it a…