Visions of the beyond at the Ragged School Museum

By Benjamin Poore, 03 October 2020

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“which grew from something distant and ghostly to a ferocious emotional intensity.”

Reviewed at Ragged School Museum, London on 2 October 2020

Bach, Violin partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV1004

Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time)

Alina Ibragimova, Violin

Samson Tsoy, Piano

Andrei Ioniţă, Cello

Nicolas Baldeyrou, Clarinet

Full English: Sinfonia of London provides sustenance at Snape

Roy Westbrook, 18th June

Elgar's Second Symphony crowns an all -English programme by John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London at the Aldeburgh Festival.

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An unforgettable musical experience at the Ragged School Museum

Chris Garlick, 4th October

The final event of the Ragged School Museum Festival saw a programme of Brahms and Shostakovich in the wonderful Victorian museum, tucked away at the heart of the East End.

*****

Piano aux Jacobins célèbre en Leonskaja une reine du piano

Thibault d'Hauthuille, 30th September

Pour fêter son 80e anniversaire, la grande dame du piano a choisi de partager la scène avec trois jeunes pianistes (Pavel Kolesnikov, Samson Tsoy et Mihály Berecz) lors de deux belles soirées au festival toulousain.

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Kolesnikov-Tsoy, Geniušas-Geniushene : duos splendides à La Roque

Rémi Monti, 31st July

À quatre mains et à deux pianos, Pavel Kolesnikov, Samson Tsoy, Lukas Geniušas et Anna Geniushene ont fait honneur à Schubert, Rachmaninov et leur contemporain Desyatnikov.

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Kolesnikov et Tsoy, d'un seul esprit et d'un seul cœur

Alain Lompech, 14th October

À l'Espace Pierre-Cardin, les deux jeunes pianistes ont alterné pièces en solo et quatre mains, pour un concert admirable de maîtrise et d'émotion.

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An unforgettable musical experience at the Ragged School Museum

Chris Garlick, 4th October

The final event of the Ragged School Museum Festival saw a programme of Brahms and Shostakovich in the wonderful Victorian museum, tucked away at the heart of the East End.

*****

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Benjamin Poore

Benjamin Poore is a writer and critic. His book on psychoanalysis and literature is forthcoming in 2019. He has previously written about literature and culture for the Independent, the Times Literary Supplement, and Times Higher Education. In his spare time he tries to sing Schubert; he has a very patient teacher.