Proms Chamber Music 6: A sensitive start that lost its way

Por Hazel Rowland, 26 agosto 2014

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Crítica hecha desde Cadogan Hall, Londres el 25 agosto 2014

Mozart, Sonata para piano núm. 9 en re mayor, K311 (K284c)

Mahler, Piano Quartet in A minor

Strauss R., Metamorfosis (arr. R Leopold for septet)

Louis Schwizgebel, Piano

Katarzyna Budnik-Gałązka, Viola

Marcin Zdunik, Violonchelo

Tomasz Januchta, Contrabajo

Royal String Quartet

Erfolg für den Einspringer: Louis Schwizgebel mit dem CBSO in Zürich

Thomas Schacher, 23rd October

Eklat bei der Schweizer Tournee des City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: Starpianist Fazıl Say wurde wegen einer Israel-kritischen Äusserungen kurzfristig ausgeladen. Eine Chance für den Einspringer.

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Aurora Orchestra and Louis Schwizgebel delight at Kings Place

Timothy Robson, 7th November

The streamed concert showed the Aurora players' prowess as chamber musicians, joined by the excellent Swiss pianist in music by Mozart, Ravel and a specially commissioned new work by Sasha Scott.

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Der Sound von Hollywood: John Wilson debütiert beim BRSO

David Renke, 12th December

Gleich zwei Debütanten stehen beim filmmusikalischen Programm auf der Bühne: Dirigent John Wilson und Pianist Louis Schwizgebel.

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Franck’s Aeolian winds usher in Saint-Säens and Elgar to Belfast

Leighton Jones, 5th April

Ulster Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor Jac van Steen returns to lead an outstanding evening, culminating in Elgar’s First Symphony. Louis Schwizgebel impresses in Saint-Saens’ Fifth Piano Concerto.

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Glittering showpieces from Gabel and the Milwaukee Symphony

Phillip Nones, 27th January

In Milwaukee, Fabien Gabel pairs a Classical concerto with brilliant orchestral showpieces by Bernstein, Ravel and Florent Schmitt.

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Gabel brings French Romance to Birmingham

Robert Gainer, 26th April

With a Francophile programme of Berlioz, Chopin and Franck, conductor Fabien Gabel had the constant challenge of exploring the orchestra for fresh insights into each of these Romantic works.

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Hazel Rowland

Hazel is in her final year reading music at Oxford University. As well being a classical music reviewer, she has written arts commentary for the Oxford Student and reviewed plays at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her particular interests lies in early German Romantic music and in how classical music functions within contemporary popular culture. Follow her blog here.