Impossible Brilliance: An Ambitious Celebration of Conlon Nancarrow

By Arthur Keegan-Bole, 24 April 2012

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Reviewed at Purcell Room, London on 21 April 2012

Nancarrow, Player Piano Study no. 13

Nancarrow, Player Piano Study no. 14

Nancarrow, Player Piano Study no. 15

Nancarrow, Player Piano Study no. 16

Nancarrow, Player Piano Study no. 17

Nancarrow, Player Piano Study no. 18

Nancarrow, Player Piano Study no. 19

Nancarrow, Player Piano Study no. 24

Nancarrow, Player Piano Study no. 31

Nancarrow, Player Piano Study no. 34

Rex Lawson, Pianola

Wolfgang Heisig, Pianola

Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the Hallé in Mahler and Vaughan Williams

Leighton Jones, 16th April

Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder provide an apt, if somewhat unexpected, partner to Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.

****1

Cummings and the AAM win ‘Leipzig's Got Talent’

Nick Boston, 16th April

The Academy of Ancient Music poses the question what might have been in Leipzig with stunning performances of Bach and his competitors to be the new Thomaskantor.

*****

A special relationship renewed: Leonard Slatkin returns to Prague

Frank Kuznik, 16th April

Leonard Slatkin returns to the Prague Symphony Orchestra with one of his own pieces, a Schubert tribute that steals the show.

****1

Carlo Rizzi brings Respighi’s Rome to Birmingham

Robert Gainer, 15th April

Carlos Rizzi believes that Puccini’s orchestrations are good enough to stand alone, without their vocal lines, but can the drama compete with the romance of Respighi?

****1

Kinan Azmeh offers a sampling of delights with St Luke’s

No’a L. bat Miri, 15th April

As part of St Luke’s ‘Visionary Sounds’ series, Kinan Azmeh joined the chamber ensemble to play a variety of his own compositions.

****1

Tharaud and Queyras celebrate 30 years together in Paris

David Karlin, 14th April

Crisp and elegant cello and piano playing is more successful in French and early repertoire than in Brahms.

****1

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Arthur Keegan-Bole

Arthur is a composer currently focusing on opera. His desire to promote contemporary music led him to set up and co-edit The Octogenarian, a light-hearted classical music review pamphlet distributed in Bristol and to curate the annual CMV series of concerts.