June 2020

Rochberg – Caprice Variations. Style and Character: Playlist of my recordings of the 50 Caprice Variations, Violin Sonata, Concerto and Quartet – by track for ease of reference My collaboration and friendship with the great George Rochberg began in 1998,…

    Eugène Ysaÿe – Sonate No. 4 Op 27 (dedicated to Fritz Kreisler) 4. Stricture and freedoms. Ysaÿe – 4th Sonata/ Charles de Bériot – Caprice ‘in imitation of the old masters’: The apparent contradiction between the freedom of…

It was Meirion Bowen who encouraged me to play Gerhard, in my 20s, which resulted in recordings of the Quartets with my quartet, the Kreutzers. I first played the Chaconne on the South Bank in 1996, and have loved it…