Many happy returns! Steven Osborne’s 50th birthday concert

Von Zoltán Szabó, 15 März 2021

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Wigmore Hall, London, am 12 März 2021

Schubert, Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, (W. Müller u. H. v. Chézy), D. 965

Schubert, Fantasie für Klavier zu 4 Händen f-Moll, D.940 Op.103

Ravel, Miroirs: La Vallée des cloches

Ravel, Klaviertrio a-Moll

Ailish Tynan, Sopran

Jean Johnson, Klarinette

Alina Ibragimova, Violine

Bjørg Lewis, Cello

Paul Lewis, Klavier

Steven Osborne, Klavier

Ein kongeniales Konzert von Bernard Haitink in Berlin

Sebastian Urmoneit, 10th May

Bernard Haitink zeigt einmal mehr, warum er als einer der größten Bruckner-Dirigenten gilt.

*****

Paul Lewis balances delicacy with power in understated RLPO Beethoven

Glyn Mon Hughes, 12th March

Understatement is key in Paul Lewis' interpretation of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Adam Hickox.

***11

Sprechstimme and yodelling: Schubert’s birthday bash at Wigmore Hall

Mark Pullinger, 31st January

A double-header celebrates Schubert featuring Allan Clayton and Paul Lewis in Winterreise and the Austrian folk/rock band The Erllkings.

****1

Denève, Lewis and the Netherlands Radio Phil in Utrecht

Laurence Vittes, 23rd January

At TivoliVredenburg’s Grote Zaal: a program of Beethoven, Liszt, and Schumann that, intentionally or not, invited reflection on long-range musical continuity.

***11

Concerto Budapest delivers Beethoven with high-octane fire in Dublin

Andrew Larkin, 29th November

András Keller’s orchestra offers intensity, finesse and sheer dramatic sweep, from Tchaikovsky’s infernal tragedy to a Beethoven Fifth Symphony driven with exhilarating momentum.

****1

Magnificent Beethoven and Sibelius, intriguing Nørgård in Manchester

Peter Connors, 22nd March

Per Nørgård’s Eighth Symphony is the unusual opener in a programme of magnificent Beethoven and Sibelius from the BBC Philharmonic, Paul Lewis and John Storgårds at the Bridgewater Hall.

****1

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Zoltán Szabó

Zoltán Szabó is a cellist and musicologist. Having migrated from his native Hungary to Australia in 1985, he worked with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Sydney until 1991, when he became Principal Cello with Opera Australia. In 2017, he was awarded with a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD). Currently, he is teaching music history and musicology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Many happy returns! Steven Osborne’s 50th birthday concert at Wigmore Hall