A trip down memory lane for Martin Fröst at Wigmore Hall

By Mark Pullinger, 17 December 2019

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“Slinky hips and lightning pivots are part of his performance choreography – Nijinsky’s faun reborn”

Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 16 December 2019

Debussy, Première Rhapsodie

Poulenc, Clarinet Sonata in B flat major, FP 184

Hillborg, Tampere Raw

Ravel, Miroirs: Une barque sur l'océan

Ravel, Miroirs: Alborada del gracioso

Pöntinen, Mercury Dream

Chausson, Andante and Allegro

Brahms, Hungarian Dance no. 1 in G minor

Fröst, Klezmer Dances

Martin Fröst, Clarinet

Roland Pöntinen, Piano

Chamber music gets physical at the Schubertiade

Sarah Batschelet, 13th July

As part of the annual Schubertiade festival, clarinettist Martin Fröst and pianist Roland Pöntinin recently gave an unforgettable recital.

*****

Lisa Larsson: Song of Norway... and Sweden

Jenny Camilleri, 1st December

Soprano Lisa Larsson and pianist Roland Pöntinen dispelled the midwinter gloom with a heavy dose of Scandinavian Romanticism and the Dutch première of Rolf Martinsson's Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson.

***11

La fièvre du samedi soir avec Zum Roten Igel à Rosendal

Tristan Labouret, 12th August

Le quintette de joyeux trublions a conclu la journée du samedi en revisitant le Quintette pour clarinette et cordes de Johannes Brahms, sans toutefois parvenir à électriser les foules.

***11

De l’ombre à la lumière : miracle au Festival de Rosendal

Tristan Labouret, 11th August

Malgré l'annulation de dernière minute d'un musicien souffrant, les artistes du Rosendal Chamber Music Festival ont livré un programme bouleversant de bout en bout.

*****

Brahms total à Kvinnherad, avec Julia Hagen et Roland Pöntinen

Tristan Labouret, 11th August

Au Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, le duo a proposé une interprétation de référence de la Première Sonate pour violoncelle et piano de Brahms.

****1

Une équipe de stars donne le coup d'envoi du Festival de Rosendal

Tristan Labouret, 10th August

James Ehnes, Yeol Eum Son, Leif Ove Andsnes, le Dover Quartet, Håkan Hardenberger et Roland Pöntinen ont ouvert cette septième édition consacrée à Johannes Brahms.

***11

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.