Power/Crawford-Phillips | Classical review

Wigmore Hall, LondonIf Lawrence Power were a violinist or cellist with the same world-class combination of searingly intense tone, fabulous technique and consummate musicianship that he lavishes on his chosen instrument, he would be a household name in this country, and the Wigmore Hall would have been packed to the rafters for his appearance with the pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips. But because Power plays the viola, butt of generations of orchestral jokes, then his peerless virtuosity is far l...

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