Oslo Chamber Music Festival off to a lukewarm start

Par Aksel Tollåli, 18 août 2014

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Critique faite à Oslo University: Aula, Oslo, le 16 août 2014

Brahms, Sonate F-A-E: Scherzo en ut mineur

Beethoven, Sonate pour piano no. 32 en ut mineur, Op.111

Bach, La Passion selon Saint Matthieu, BWV244 : Erbarme dich mein Gott

Bartók, Quatuor à cordes no. 6, Sz. 114

Christian Hundsnes Grøvlen, Piano

Sonoko Miriam Welde, Violon

Paul Lewis, Piano

Vertavo Quartet

Bjørg Lewis, Violoncelle

Joyful Haydn from the Vertavo Quartet

Sebastian Scotney, 25th April

Violist Berit Cardas' smiles seemed to sum up the lightness, the exuberance of the Vertavo quartet as they tripped with grace and astonishing technical assurance through four Haydn quartets.

****1

Émouvant hommage rendu à Lars Vogt par l'Orchestre de chambre de Paris

Alain Lompech, 4th October

Entourée de Daniel Harding, Ian Bostridge, Christian Tetzlaff, Alban Gerhardt et Paul Lewis, la phalange parisienne a livré un concert exceptionnel, fidèle à la façon qu'avait Lars Vogt de faire la musique.

*****

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

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Aksel Tollåli

Aksel is currently studying towards a degree in musicology at the University of Oslo. At the moment he is an exchange student at Goldsmiths College in London. He is also a choral singer and a trombonist. His musical interests include 20th-cenury French music, Baroque opera and the music of Richard Strauss.

Oslo Chamber Music Festival gets off to a lukewarm start