IMS Prussia Cove Livens Up the Chamber Music Crowd in Cornwall

By Lucy Armstrong, 24 April 2012

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Reviewed at Truro School: Chapel, Truro on 20 April 2012

Haydn, Piano Sonata in F major, Hob XVI:23

Ligeti, Sonata for solo viola

Schumann, Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.129

Clarke, Sonata for viola and piano

Shostakovich, Piano Trio no. 1 in C minor, Op.8

Berg, Violin Concerto "To the Memory of an Angel"

Mendelssohn, Cello Sonata no. 2 in D Major, Op 58

Dina Duisen, Piano

Chaim Steller, Viola

Joris van den Berg, Cello

Simon Parkin, Piano

Grégoire Vecchioni, Viola

Gretel Dowdeswell, Piano

Hepplewhite Piano Trio

Amy Littlewood, Violin

Hetti Price, Cello

Fan Yu, Piano

Lisa Romain, Violin

Emese Mali, Piano

Bingxia Lu, Cello

Rencontres au sommet à Nîmes avec Kantorow, Petrova et Pascal

Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 28th August

Le trio a invité une belle équipe de copains (Théo Fouchenneret, Edgar Moreau, Grégoire Vecchioni, Paul Zientara, Shuichi Okada) lors d'un programme « 1842 » parfois alambiqué mais formidablement défendu.

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Un « cinq majeur » pour Edward Elgar à la Musikfest parisienne

Tristan Labouret, 23rd May

Liya Petrova, Aurélien Pascal et Alexandre Kantorow étaient accompagnés de Charlotte Juillard et Grégoire Vecchioni pour livrer une version de référence du Quintette d'Elgar salle Cortot.

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Embrahmsez-vous ! La Musikfest Parisienne vit sa deuxième édition

Tristan Labouret, 25th May

Lancé par Liya Petrova pendant le premier confinement, le festival donnait son premier concert avec public Salle Cortot, premier événement d'un triptyque entièrement consacré à Johannes Brahms.

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Emotion und Wagemut: Das Quatuor Van Kuijk in Lugano

Rolf Kyburz, 22nd April

Das Quatuor Van Kuijk bot in Lugano ein anspruchsvolles Programm mi Debussy, Weberns Fünf Sätzen und Mendelssohn.

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Andris Nelsons and the BSO arrive in New York, with baggage in tow

Cameron Kelsall, 9th April

In his first New York appearance since the termination of his contract as BSO Music Director, Nelsons courts public sympathy and makes some thrilling music.

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Nelson Goerner shines with the CBSO and Rachmaninov's Rhapsody

Robert Gainer, 9th April

The CBSO present the work of three European émigré composers of the 1930s and 40s, who reimagined their musical influences with contrasting approaches and results.

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Lucy Armstrong

After growing up in Canada studying music, literature and philosophy in the exuberant festival city of Montreal, Lucy A. Armstrong has returned to the U.K. to explore the adventurous arts scene and integrate herself into the wonderful world of classical music and theatre.