I don’t think there can be many musical experiences as fine and English than we were lucky enough to witness at St Mary’s Church in Petworth, but in this case, not just English, but more specifically a magical celebration of The South Downs
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Facing the Music: Artistic Identity During Crisis
What does it mean to be an artist when the circumstances that allow us to practise and share our art are suddenly taken away?
Around the Globe with Stephen Hough
Sir Stephen Hough takes us on a world tour with his new album Postcards, a charming collection of piano miniatures, souvenirs, if you will, collected over his many years of touring and performing around the globe.
Grieving pianist receives a 200-year-old hug from Schubert
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…
‘Finale with no ending’ Burstein celebrates the diversity of music
In May of this year I attended the premier of Keith Burstein’s new work, Finale With No Ending, a sextet, which offers tango, Jewish folk music with sumptuous classical orchestration. On stage at the Royal College of Music, Burstein gave the audience some insights into its creation. An early memory of his father playing accordion…
Pianist Siqian Li: “Being well-behaved in music is not a compliment.”
Pianist Siqian Li: “Being well-behaved in music is not a compliment.”
Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony – music for war and resistance
This week it was off to the Philharmonie de Paris, a state-of-the-art concert hall in the north-eastern periphery of the French capital. Paris may be my second home, but this was my first visit to this musical institution designed by the architect Jean Nouvel. Opened in 2015, after a six year wait, there was a lot…
Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte in Coney Island
Cosi Fan Tutte premiered a year before Mozart’s death in 1791. It’s probably one of our most popular operas today, largely due, but not exclusively, to its exquisitely crafted arias, which Mozart produces one after another for his female singers. I attended opening night of Cosi at English National Opera with mixed feelings however. I…
Horton takes advice from the old Master and gets a standing ovation for his Chopin Scherzos
Tim Horton’s six-concert Chopin Cycle started back in 2024 and sadly the series is nearly at its end. I was thrilled to be able to catch Horton’s penultimate concert at the Wigmore on January 16th this year, where Ravel’s revolutionary waltzes were judiciously sandwiched between several late Chopin nocturnes and four Scherzos. Throughout his Chopin…
Thomas Luke: ‘See Me Now’ – a confident, imaginative debut
‘an impressive debut that leaves one wanting to hear more from this confident and imaginative musician’
ARTMUSELONDON 