Rave reviews for Pierre Laurent Aimard: Catch him this December

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Liz White

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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Pierre-Laurent Aimard CD review

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Liz White

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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‘Boulez enthrals South Bank audience in London’

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Liz White

‘He is the most influential composer of the second half of the 20th Century and at 86 Pierre Boulez is still writing new works.’ Last weekend we celebrated the miraculous beauty of Pierre Boulez’s music with Resident Orchestra London Sinfonietta, Artistic Advisor pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Royal Academy of Music and the man himself with his Ensemble [...]

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Come down to Southbank Centre this weekend and try some Boulez

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Liz White

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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Check out our online classical music guide

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Liz White

Welcome to Southbank Centre’s 2011/12 classical music season packed with musical greats, firsts and concerts from our four world-class Resident Orchestras. Visit our online guide to take you through our packed programme! We kicked off the season in full swing with a sold out performance from Apartment House of John Cage Night as part of [...]

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Ravel

Posted on October 19, 2010 by katievickers

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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Get to know oboist Nicholas Daniel

Posted on October 5, 2010 by katievickers

Oboist Nicholas Daniel talks about his career, loves and memories ahead of his concert with Britten Sinfonia on 18 October, when he will premiere James MacMillan’s Oboe Concerto. You’ve been with Britten Sinfonia since its formation, what is your favourite memory from the concert platform? It has to be premiering John Tavener’s Kaleidoscopes. That piece has something [...]

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