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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Clélia Iruzun Plays Camille Saint-Saëns and Henrique Oswald
Piano concertos are dramatic affairs performed live, with virtuoso pianist, conductor and orchestra all adding to the visual spectacle taking place on stage. Concertos are rarely run of the mill – too costly for that. Only the best performers will do. And at the moment, mid-pandemic, deprived of live performances of this nature, we have…