COE and Piotr Anderszewski in Frankfurt

By Peter Connors, 22 May 2017

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“Anderszewski is a thoughtful, contemplative pianist who shaped each phrase”

Reviewed at Alte Oper: Großer Saal, Frankfurt am Main on 21 May 2017

Bartók, Divertimento for Strings, Sz 113

Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 25 in C major, K503

Janáček, Mládí (Youth), for wind sextet

Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 1 in C major, Op.15

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Piotr Anderszewski, Piano

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Cameron Kelsall, 10th December

Conducted by honorary member Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the COE’s all-Brahms concert features the composer's First Symphony and final major work, the Double Concerto for Violin and Cello.

****1

Beauty from Iestyn Davies, energy from Robin Ticciati in Gstaad

David Karlin, 2nd February

Iestyn Davies shows how to make every word count in a fairly standard sampler of Baroque arias; Ticciati is a fireball on the podium with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

***11

Robin Ticciati shuffles incidental music with the COE

Alexander Hall, 19th April

Beethoven was the spiritus rector of Ticciati's COE concert at the Elbphilharmonie, with Lisa Batiashvili in commanding form for that composer's fiddle concerto.

****1

Jansen dazzles Antwerp in fine Prokofiev with Pappano and the COE

Clare Varney, 3rd December

Janine Jansen’s exquisite reading of Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto leaves the Belgian audience on a high.

****1

Yannick Nézet-Séguin's Beethoven cycle concludes

Alexander Hall, 10th July

Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe bring to a triumphant end their Beethoven cycle in Baden-Baden with coruscating performances of the Second and Third Symphonies.

*****

Nézet-Séguin and the COE bring Beethoven to Baden-Baden

Cameron Kelsall, 4th July

The elegance of the First Symphony served as a perfect curtain raiser for the mammoth, exultant Ninth.

*****

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Peter Connors

Peter has been attending concerts and operas enthusiastically since his parents took him to see The Mikado in Liverpool when he was a boy of ten and to a “family concert” given by the RLPO a year or so later. Peter studied Modern Languages at Worcester College, Oxford and Law in Manchester. After spending twenty years as a pensions lawyer in Manchester, he retrained as a teacher of English as a foreign language, which took him to Germany and to Serbia. With the onset of the pandemic he returned to the UK and now works online and frequents concert halls and theatres in the North West of England.

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