The German pianist Lars Vogt has been described by Simon Rattle as ‘one of the most extraordinary musicians of any age group that I have had the fortune to be associated with’. On Tuesday 15 May, 7.30pm at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall you can hear him perform a recital of music by Haydn, Brahms & [...]
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The ever popular British pianist Peter Donohoe first shot to fame in 1982 when he was a Silver Medal Winner at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and is noted for his performances of Liszt. He talks to us in advance of his return to Southbank centre on Tuesday 28 February. What do you fear the most and [...]
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard has had a busy start to the season at Southbank Centre, launching the International Piano Series in October as Artistic Advisor for our Pierre Boulez weekend festival, and then on 8th November performing a concert celebrating the Liszt bicentenary. Aimard returns on 7 December continuing on his celebration of Liszt, setting the composer [...]
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Liszt, Bartok, Berg et al – The Liszt Project Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Deutsche Grammophon 4779439 There’s intelligent method in this two-disc mega-recital. On the first disc, three of Liszt’s late experimental works each precede a single-movement sonata — by Wagner, Berg and Scriabin — before Aimard plays Liszt’s own single-movement B minor sonata. Disc two [...]
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Pianist Steven Osborne shares his diary of learning and recording Ravel’s fiendish Gaspard de la Nuit with The Guardian. Read the full article here. January 2009: Among pianists, Gaspard has a fearsome reputation, one of the contenders for the title of Most Difficult Piano Piece Ever Written, but… I’m quietly confident I can rise to the challenge. [...]
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This weekend we celebrate the music of Pierre Boulez. Boulez’s music fuses scientific precision with gorgeous, fluid sound. Boulez himself comments that ‘creation must express a certain transcendence’. He explains that ‘For me a musical idea is like a seed which you plant in compost, and suddenly it begins to proliferate like a weed.’ [...]
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There are two chances to catch Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt at Southbank Centre. Tomorrow’s International Piano Series recital includes a Bach Partita, Beethoven’s Eroica Variations and Brahms’ Handel Variations. Angela writes: “My programme pairs two suites of the Baroque period with two of the greatest masterpieces ever written in variation form. It is well known that Beethoven played a lot [...]
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard is a pianist who refuses to be pigeon-holed. He can be playing Beethoven one night and a world premiere the next and yet he brings the same clarity of vision to both performances. In his International Piano Series recital tonight he will be demonstrating this remarkable versatility in a programme including music by Beethoven, Chopin, [...]
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