Showing posts with label Wigmore Hall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wigmore Hall. Show all posts
Monday, December 21, 2020

Welcome to (what remains of) the JDCMB Chocolate Silver Awards 2020

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It's 21 December! Welcome back to our cyberposhplace, with a difference. Nowadays we are all living permanently in cyberplaces. Paradoxi...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

'Immortal' is out, and so is its Wigmore digital launch

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It's publication day for Immortal.  I am overjoyed to say that we are sending it out into the world with a digital launch presentation f...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Not quite normal

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Back in the Royal Festival Hall: Chineke! takes the stage I'm astonished to realise that my schedule this past week has been a closish m...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Just a little encore by Hamelin...

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We're possibly entering a new golden age of the composer-pianist, methinks. Stupendous recital by one of the very finest, Marc-André...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Happy birthday, Dame Emma Kirkby - here's a podcast

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I was very lucky to record this podcast interview with Dame Emma Kirkby at the Wigmore. The much-loved British soprano, doyenne of "ear...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Happy big birthday, Steven Isserlis!

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Steven Isserlis is 60 today! I have flipping' well missed his big birthday concert on Monday at the Wigmore Hall - which included appe...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

Live stream tonight: Armistice recital from the Wigmore Hall

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I hope this works. If it doesn't, please go here instead:  https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/wigmore-hall-live/live-stream The French pian...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Observing Pauline Viardot

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Last week I had a call from The Observer to ask me to stand in for their absent critics Fiona Maddocks and Stephen Pritchard, which was both...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch to address the Wigmore Hall

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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch It's rare for any concert in hall in London, except the eclectic Southbank Centre, to present anything with o...
Monday, September 25, 2017

What makes a good duo?

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Violinist Tasmin Little and pianist Piers Lane have been working together not just for years, but for decades. Doesn't time fly when y...
Friday, March 31, 2017

Soulmates?

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Hamelin & Andsnes Image: www.goldstar.com The morning after, my head is still the worse for wear after encountering the juggernaut...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

They are going to measure artistic quality. Seriously.

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Most perturbed by the revelation that Arts Council England is planning "to impose quantitative measures of artistic quality" upon ...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Live-stream for Schiff masterclass today!

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Sir András Schiff is giving a masterclass at the Royal College of Music at 3pm this afternoon and if you can't get along  to hear it, y...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

So what's it really like to perform at the Wigmore Hall?

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Viv and muggins, delivering What's it like to perform at the Wigmore Hall? I doubt I'd ever have found out if I'd kept on wi...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Dates for the diary...

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It's a busy little patch, this, so here's what's coming up. • On Saturday afternoon, 20 Feb, V iv and I are performing ALICIA&...