Perfectly weighted conversation: Szeps-Znaider, Capuçon and Buchbinder

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Rudolf Buchbinder and Gautier Capuçon

By Charlotte Gardner, 13 November 2024

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“kaleidoscopic tonal colouring which hit mark, after mark, after mark”

Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 11 November 2024

Schubert, Piano Trio no. 1 in B flat major D.898

Schubert, Piano Trio no. 2 in E flat major, D.929

Mendelssohn, Piano Trio no. 1 in D minor, Op.49 (Scherzo)

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Violin

Gautier Capuçon, Cello

Rudolf Buchbinder, Piano

Rudolf Buchbinder completes Singapore Beethoven concerto cycle

Chang Tou Liang, 23rd October

Love fills the air as two Carl Nielsen cantatas are premiered in Singapore under Michał Nesterowicz.

****1

Dances of reinvention: Măcelaru and the ONF at the Enescu Festival

Edward Sava-Segal, 19th September

Venturing into Gershwin, Rudolf Buchbinder joins an Orchestre National de France programme at the George Enescu International Festival marked by surprises.

****1

Buchbinder glows in New York Beethoven

Susan Stempleski, 4th January

The Austrian pianist’s expressive and elegant interpretation of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto is the highlight in a New York Philharmonic program of classics of the German Romantic repertoire.

***11

Rudolf Buchbinder casts a Beethoven spell in Singapore

Chang Tou Liang, 9th December

Echt-Viennese Beethoven interpreter Rudolf Buchbinder enthrals the Singapore audience.

*****

Blistering Buchbinder, trenchant Järvi at the Elbphilharmonie

Alexander Hall, 16th August

Sometimes artists surprise, but in a wholly positive way: nothing remotely bland about Buchbinder's approach to Beethoven's C minor concerto and a Tchaikovsky 1 streets ahead of Järvi's recent recording.

*****

In at the deep end for harpsichordist Jean Rondeau in Lucerne

Stephen Pritchard, 7th February

Lucerne’s new festival “Le Piano Symphonique” showcases the orchestral qualities of the piano... and the harpsichord, with a recital in what was once a swimming pool!

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Charlotte Gardner

Charlotte Gardner is a music critic and journalist regularly to be found in specialist music publications including Gramophone (where she specialises in strings and Baroque), The Strad and Classical Music magazine, and writing concert programme notes for organisations including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Before turning to writing she spent eight years at the BBC, the final years of which were in News, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. She holds a Music MA from the University of Cambridge.

Perfectly weighted conversation: Szeps-Znaider, Capuçon and Buchbinder play Schubert