Sudbin on sensational form at Wigmore Hall

Par Roy Westbrook, 10 juin 2017

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“Sudbin brought a purgatory fire of his own with tremolos flickering with burning intensity”

Critique faite à Wigmore Hall, Londres, le 9 juin 2017

Scriabine, Vers la flamme, Op.72

Tchaïkovski, Nocturne en fa majeur, Op.10 no. 1

Tchaïkovski, Les Saisons: Juin: Barcarolle

Tchaïkovski, Les Saisons: Novembre: Troika

Liszt, Étude d'exécution transcendante, S 139 no. 11 : Harmonies du soir

Scarlatti, Sonatas

Medtner, Mélodies oubliées: Sonate pour piano no. 11 en ut mineur "Sonata Tragica", Op.39 no.5

Yevgeny Sudbin, Piano

Awash with sentiment: Scriabin's Piano Concerto

Hedy Mühleck, 3rd December

The CBSO shines in a programme of big, energetic music and tender emotions.

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Kalmar debuts in Atlanta, paired with Yevgeny Sudbin

William E Ford, 19th November

Conductor Carlos Kalmar and pianist Yevgeny Sudbin collaborated to play a solid Beethoven First Piano Concerto. Kalmar finished the program with a loud performance of the Schoenburg arrangement of Brahms' Piano Quartet no. 1.

***11

These things of darkness: Yevgeny Sudbin

Frances Wilson, 13th May

A dark thread ran through Yevgeny Sudbin’s recital at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, from the sombre B minor sonata by Haydn to Scriabin’s infamous “Black Mass” sonata and Saint-Saens’ virtuosic Danse macabre.

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A feast of virtuosity: Yevgeny Sudbin at Wigmore Hall

Frances Wilson, 21st January

It is rare to be at a concert where one is utterly captivated from the first note until the very last has faded to silence, but such was the effect of Russian pianist Yevgeny Sudbin on a packed Wigmore Hall at his lunchtime recital of works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin and Saint-Saëns.

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Siegfried et l’art du chant au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Pierre Michel, 19th April

Pour ce troisième volet du Ring proposé en version de concert par Yannick Nézet-Séguin et l'Orchestre philharmonique de Rotterdam, c'est le plateau vocal qui brille avant tout, éclipsant l'orchestre et le chef.

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Les bons souvenirs de Julien Chauvin à Deauville

Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 18th April

Pour ouvrir la 30e édition de la manifestation deauvillaise, le violoniste et chef du Concert de la Loge a proposé un excellent triptyque Bach-Telemann-Pergolèse qui faisait allusion à des souvenirs normands.

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Roy Westbrook

Roy Westbrook gained a diploma in music history at London University (Morley College) and was for some years the head of music day schools at Oxford University, where he also led music summer schools. After some years leading the University's business school he has returned to music teaching and writing, and recently took part in the Arts in Residence courses on Bruckner, Mahler and Bach He is co-author (with Terry Barfoot) of a history of opera, and has taught day schools on Sibelius in Oxford and elsewhere.