Listen with your eyes: Etienne Abelin and the Music Animation Machine

By Sanne Thierens, 14 July 2014

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Reviewed at Concertgebouw: Recital Hall, Amsterdam on 12 July 2014

Etienne Abelin, Violin

Tamar Halperin, Piano

Tomek Kolczynski, Electronics

Early English masters from Andreas Scholl

Jacob Slattery, 22nd May

Inhibited by a cold and unable to give a full 100%, Andreas Scholl pulled off a solid 99 in a recital of early English music with harpsichordist Tamar Halperin.

****1

An Italian feast from Andreas Scholl

Katy Wright, 7th April

A tantalising selection of Italian Baroque music from Andreas Scholl, Avi Avital and friends at Wigmore Hall.

***11

English songs of love and melancholy - Andreas Scholl in Norway

Travis Mason, 30th May

If one had idly wondered how a programme of English love songs, sung by a German, would be received by a Norwegian audience, in a wet and windy Bergen, the answer came loud and clear at this week's International Festival.

Andreas Scholl charme la Salle Gaveau

Anne-Laure Faubert, 10th April

La voix d'Andreas Scholl et le joueur de mandoline Avi Avital ont charmé la Salle Gaveau par la virtuosité d'un programme baroque.

****1

Frank Dupree's Liverpool debut has the audience crying out for more

Glyn Mon Hughes, 14th May

A concert celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USA saw Liverpool audiences treated to a sumptuous Copland as well as a symphony as well as a barn-storming performance of Gershwin and Duke Ellington, performed by Frank Dupree who was making his debut with the RLPO.

*****

Hilary Hahn’s French odyssey of refinement and fire in Dublin

Andrew Larkin, 14th May

Two technical mishaps punctuate the evening, but Hilary Hahn maintains poise throughout a French programme crowned by a finely judged, deeply expressive performance of Fauré.

****1

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Sanne Thierens

Sanne is passionate about music and theatre and interested in what happens when the two are combined. She studied Liberal Arts and Sciences with majors in Musicology, Theatre & Media Studies and Piano Performance. After completing her degree at University College Roosevelt (Middelburg, The Netherlands), Sanne moved to London where she obtained an MA degree in Musicology from King’s College, University of London.