Virtuosity of Gesture: Anthony Marwood and Aleksandar Madzar

By Bachtrack reviewer, 23 April 2012

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Reviewed at Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas on 20 April 2012

Paganini, Caprice no. 1 for solo violin in E major, Op.1 no.1

Sciarrino, Caprice no. 1, Vivace

Debussy, Étude no. 8 pour les agréments

Debussy, Etude No. 9, pour les notes répétées

Debussy, Études no. 10: Pour les sonorités opposées

Sciarrino, Caprice no. 4: Volubile

Berio, Six Encores for piano (Luftklavier and Wasserklavier)

Schubert, Fantasy for violin and piano in C major, D.934

Schnittke, A Paganini

Bartók, Violin Sonata no. 1, Sz. 75

Anthony Marwood, Violin

Aleksandar Madžar, Piano

Beethoven or bust: anniversary series launched at Wigmore Hall

Mark Pullinger, 15th September

Early and late Beethoven in the closing two recitals of Wigmore Hall's Beethoven Festival Weekend.

****1

A splendid night of 20th-century cello music with Nicolas Altstaedt and Aleksandar Madžar

Zoltán Szabó, 11th September

The first programme of Nicolas Altstaedt and Aleksandar Madžar for their tour around Australia offered an insightful selection of 20th-century chamber music masterpieces.

****1

Wild oscillations in Cardiff unite Beethoven, Schumann and Ligeti

Simon Cummings, 9th December

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Ryan Bancroft and violinist Anthony Marwood deliver an evening of rapid gear-shifting, punchy momentum, dancing lyricism and mischief at Hoddinott Hall.

****1

Anthony Marwood leads the Scottish Chamber Orchestra forwards in time

Simon Thompson, 3rd November

A concept album of a programme which might not quite have cohered, but whose components were never less than lovely.

****1

Manze turns his attention to Vaughan Williams' Job

Chris Garlick, 7th December

A performance Vaughan Williams' Job to truly cherish, with Manze using all his experience to produce a mature and thrilling account of this masterpiece.

*****

Tunes for the Moon at Vermont's Yellow Barn

Kurt Gottschalk, 20th July

On the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing, the musicians of Yellow Barn played a wide-ranging program of works inspired by the night sky.

****1

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