Today we are delighted to bring the fantastically colourful music of Evis Sammoutis to Wiltons for the first time. We have been working very closely with this wonderfully imaginative Cypriot composer f or the past few years. This has…
Trockne Blumen ‘Variations on an Original Theme for Flute and Piano’y Und Lenz wird kommen, und Winter wird gehn Und Blümlein werden in Grase stehnn Und Blümlein liegen in meinen Grab, Die Blümlein alle, die sie mir gab. Wilhelm Müller…
Sunday’s concert offers a very rare opportunity to hear Mendelssohn’s early Sextet. This ebullient piece, written in 1824, was first performed at one of the Mendelssohn family Sunday morning concerts. These concerts had acquired an almost mythical status on the…
Felix Mendelssohn A Major String Quintet Op 18 Wilton’s Music Hall Sunday December 20th 6 pm On Sunday, the we will be returning to the wonder of Felix Mendelssohn’s early chamber music. The centrepiece of the concert will be…
(This article cited here-Auditorio Nacional) I have never forgotten the advice that Louis Krasner gave me about concerto playing. There is an astounding recording of a performance that he gave of ‘his’ piece, the Berg Violin Concerto. This was…
Nesi Hensu The Zagrebacka Mumija lies in a small dedicated room at the back of the Archeological museum in Zagreb. The museum is set back from the road, with a delightful garden in front where I love to sit…
Boucher and La Marseillaise Alexandre-Jean Boucher (1770-1861) was born and died in Paris. His father was a member of Louis XV’s Mousquetaires Gris A pupil or Navoigille ainé, and Gaviniés, he performed at court at the age of eight years…
On the way home after a day working with the inspired young composers at York University. In the middle of the day, a happy return to the rhapsodic revolution of the Polish avantgarde of the 1960’s-performing Penderecki 1 with Lutoslawski.…
I met the composer Paul Pellay when we were both students at the Royal Academy of Music. At that time, although I was involved in performances of some of his music, we did not develop a collaboration. That had to…
Last night, we played Luca Francesconi’s wonderful 1993 Quartet, ‘Mirrors’ at Wiltons. This is one of the most physically uplifting pieces that we play-a work literally teeming with ideas and energy.