Albéric Magnard steals the show in all-French recital at Wigmore Hall

By Nick Boston, 16 November 2022

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“Magnard exploits to the full the sheer power of the four combined wind instruments”

Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 15 November 2022

Debussy, Syrinx

Debussy, Première Rhapsodie

Sancan, Sonatine

Poulenc, Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon, FP 43

Magnard, Quintet in D minor for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet and basson, Op.8

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano

Orsino Ensemble

Adam Walker, Flute

Nicholas Daniel, Oboe

Matthew Hunt, Clarinet

Amy Harman, Bassoon

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Ravel’s complete piano works

Edward Sava-Segal, 18th November

A coherent, finely balanced traversal in Alice Tully Hall is shaped by clarity, restraint and expressive poise.

*****

Mixed results from Dalia Stasevska's trio of 20th-century works

David Truslove, 12th March

Seldom heard and standard repertoire bring mixed results from Dalia Stasevska, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Chorus.

***11

Bavouzet’s Manchester Mozart cycle reaches its epic peak

Leighton Jones, 20th September

All good things must come to end, but Manchester Camerata's Mozart piano concerto cycle did so in exceptional style in Stoller Hall.

*****

More Mozart, made in Manchester from the Camerata

Rohan Shotton, 25th March

Gábor Takács-Nagy and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet tackle Mozart's Piano Concertos nos. 24 and 25 with the Manchester Camerata with their usual panache.

****1

Domingo Hindoyan’s RLPO soirée française

Leighton Jones, 20th January

Two unusual French orchestral works bring a unity to a Philharmonic Hall programme mixing the familiar and the unfamiliar.

****1

Five star Franck from Bavouzet and the Quatuor Danel at Wigmore Hall

Chris Garlick, 23rd October

A truly committed performance of César Franck's Piano Quintet, a work that is played too rarely and is often misunderstood by performers and audience alike.

*****

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Nick Boston

Nick has an MA in Music, specialising in performance and repertoire. His particular passions are choral music, chamber music and opera, with a particular interest in early music. He sings in a number of choirs in the south east of England, plays the piano and occasionally dusts off the violin. He writes about music here.