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Emerson String Quartet finishes concert with a brilliant Debussy

5068 days ago
Detroit Free PressClaude Debussy String Quartet, which closed the celebrated Emerson String Quartet's concert Saturday in a rush of feverish intensity, was written 118 years ago in 1893. But the music sounded so fresh and timelessly modern that it brought to mind... more info

James Rhodes: Bullets and Lullabies | review

5083 days ago
Guardian Music(Warner)With a TV series on Sky Arts, a recent BBC4 Chopin documentary and a high-profile social networking identity, pianist James Rhodes is forging his own way in the classical world and breaking rules like the most stylish, gifted and daredevil bo... more info

Schumann: Humoreske; Studies for Pedal Piano; Gesänge der Frühe – review

5085 days ago
Guardian MusicPiotr AnderszewskiNew discs from Anderszewski appear approximately annually, each after a long gestation. It's almost three years since the pianist revealed his intention to build a Schumann CD around the Op 20 Humoreske and, it seems, he has fina... more info

Northern Sinfonia/Elder – review

5088 days ago
Guardian MusicSage, GatesheadTwo years ago, Mark Elder conducted Elgar's Violin Concerto, with Thomas Zehetmair as soloist. The partnership was a huge success – the performance appeared on the Hallé's CD label – and seems to have persuaded the two to collabor... more info

Piotr Anderszewski – review

5095 days ago
Guardian MusicTown Hall, BirminghamBirmingham's refurbished Town Hall is perfectly scaled for a solo piano, but it was less than half full for Piotr Anderszewski's recital. Those who stayed away missed something special: Anderszewski's Bach playing has always been... more info

LPO/Jurowski – review

5102 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonIn the latest instalment of the orchestra's ongoing Mahler cycle, the LPO's principal conductor Vladimir Jurowski slotted the discarded movement entitled Blumine (Flora) into a performance of Mahler's First Symphony that ot... more info

Risør chamber music festival – review

5107 days ago
Guardian MusicWigmore Hall, LondonEvery summer for 20 years, the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and violinist Lars Anders Tomter have invited musician friends to join them in a small harbour town in Norway for a busman's holiday. Now, with Andsnes about to step down as ... more info

London Sinfonietta/Collon – review

5129 days ago
Guardian MusicRoundhouse, LondonIt was halfway through Mémoriale, Pierre Boulez's brief and luminescent chamber concerto for flute, that I noticed the rubber chicken hanging from a microphone next to Oliver Coates's cello.The chicken, it turned out, did not belon... more info

Debussy: Fantaisie; Ravel: Piano Concertos; Massenet: Piano Pieces, CD review

5134 days ago
The TelegraphJean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond Yan Pascal Tortelier. Rating: * * * * more info

Ravel: The Piano Concertos; Debussy: Fantaisie; etc | CD review

5141 days ago
Guardian MusicBavouzet/BBC SO/Tortelier(Chandos)Though Boulez and Aimard both have reputations for efficient, no-nonsense approaches, their performances of both the Ravel concertos (reviewed above) are consistently slower than Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's with the BBC... more info

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