Eric Lu plumbs the depths at Wigmore Hall

Von Alexander Hall, 11 März 2024

Laden, bitte warten...

“it was the venom he also found that was quite shocking”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Wigmore Hall, London, am 10 März 2024

Bach, Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo (Capriccio über die Abreise des sehr beliebten Bruders), BWV992

Schubert, Vier Impromptus in c-Moll, Es-Dur, Ges-Dur und As-Dur, D899

Händel, Suite de pièce in E major, Vol 1 no. 5 (aka "The Harmonious Blacksmith" or "Air and Variations in E major"), HWV 430

Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Song without words in E major, Op.19b no.1

Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Song without words in A major "Kinderstücke", Op.102 no.5

Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Song without words in C minor, Op.38 no.2

Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Song without words in D major, Op.85 no.4

Prokofjew, Klaviersonate Nr. 7 in B-Dur, Op.83

Chopin, Prélude in D flat major “Raindrop”, Op.28 no.15

Eric Lu, Klavier

Eric Lu brings scintillating Chopin to Singapore

Chang Tou Liang, 1st May

A world premiere by Wang Chenwei, familiar Chopin and a rare outing for Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta make for satisfying fare in Jahcun Wong’s Singapore Symphony programme.

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Chopin Competition winner Eric Lu lives up to the hype in Singapore

Chang Tou Liang, 3rd December

Chopin competition winner Eric Lu impresses and thrills in Singapore recital

*****

Sophia Liu, Eric Lu, Dang Thai Son : sacré brelan d'as à La Roque

Alain Lompech, 14th August

En solo ou avec ses confrères pianistes, la jeune Sophia Liu est la révélation du jour au festival rocassien. Retour sur une journée riche en émotions, avec une fabuleuse soirée mozartienne.

*****

Kerem Hasan conducts an exhilarating Tchaikovsky Fifth in Tokyo

Nahoko Gotoh, 18th June

Exciting Tchaikovsky from the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, while Leeds winner Eric Lu is the sensitive soloist in Chopin's Second Concerto.

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Eric Lu explores the darkness of the soul in Schubert at the QEH

Alexander Hall, 15th January

Once decried as “dangerously introspective”, Schubert's Piano Sonata D.959 is now seen as one of his masterpieces. Eric Lu shows how he is completely on the composer's wavelength in this compelling performance.

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Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and Eric Lu say “So long!” to winter in Stockholm

Linda Holt, 25th February

Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto is programmed with two works by composers esteemed in their era, but largely forgotten by concert goers over the past half-century.

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Alexander Hall

Alexander Hall divides his time between London and Hamburg, where he had a career in academic administration and teaching. He reviews for Bachtrack and Opera Today, and has also reviewed for Classical Source. A connoisseur of the great orchestras of the world, his musical memories stretch back to Karajan/Berlin Phil, Mravinsky/Leningrad Phil, Bernstein/Vienna Phil, and he has seen most of the great conductors from the past, including Böhm, Klemperer, Kubelik, Ormandy and Szell.