Lección pianística: Almirón inaugura el Festival de Sabadell

By Albert Ferrer Flamarich, 23 June 2025

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“una orfebrería tímbrica sutil en el uso de ornamentos, notas dobles y arpegios”

Reviewed at Teatre Principal, Sabadell on 19 June 2025

Brahms, Intermezzo in A flat major, Op.76 no.3

Brahms, Capriccio en sol mineur, Op.116 no. 3

Brahms, 6 Pieces for Piano: Intermezzo in A major, Op.118 no.2

Strauss R., Sonata in B minor for piano, Op.5

Liszt, 2 Légendes, for orchestra, S 175

Josep Maria Almirón, Piano

Dazzling Prokofiev from Alim Beisembayev and the RLPO

Peter Connors, 26th April

In an all-Russian programme in Liverpool, Alim Beisembayev gives a breathtaking performance of Prokofiev's fiendishly difficult Second Piano Concerto.

****1

A Evgeny Kissin tour de force in Boston

Kevin Wells, 25th April

Andrey Boreyko makes an impressive debut with the Boston Symphony, where Evgeny Kissin performs in not one, but two piano concertos.

****1

Patriotic angst with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Thomas Zehetmair

Nick Butters, 24th April

Patriotic Sibelius and early Mendelssohn are served up at the Glasshouse in Gateshead.

***11

Yunchan Lim at Carnegie Hall: unmooring musical time

Edward Sava-Segal, 24th April

Schubert and Scriabin are shaped by expansion and suspension in the Korean pianist’s Carnegie Hall recital.

****1

Stephen Hough makes a convincing case for Rachmaninov 1 with the RSNO

Simon Thompson, 24th April

On a return visit to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, John Wilson shapes A London Symphony with melancholy sweep.

****1

Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Roy Westbrook, 23rd April

Serious music ill-matched by filmic limitations as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Messiaen’s epic “symphony” as part of the Southbank’s cross-genre festival.

**111

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Albert Ferrer Flamarich

Albert Ferrer Flamarich (Barcelona, 1983). Historiador del arte y musicógrafo (Universitat Barcelona) que desde el año 2000 ha participado en numerosos de medios de comunicación escrita y de radio, editando un modesto boletín sobre zarzuela (2002-06). Trabajó para la discográfica Columna Música (2008-2013) y desde 2009 ofrece regularmente conferencias. Ha sido profesor en Universidad Catalana d’Estiu en Prada de Conflent (2015), Conservatorio de Sant Cugat del Vallès (2019) y Campus de la Experiència de la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (2019-2021). Es revisor y asesor de editoriales musicales, ha impulsado la publicación de títulos en español y actualmente coordina la serie sobre Eduard Toldrà para Dinsic Publicaciones Musicales.

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