Torleif Thedéen guests in Sydney

By Zoltán Szabó, 18 September 2014

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Reviewed at City Recital Hall, Sydney on 16 September 2014

Debussy, Cello Sonata in D minor

Beethoven, Cello Sonata no. 2 in G minor, Op.5 no.2

Dean, Three Intimate Interludes (World première)

Grieg, Cello Sonata in A minor, Op.36

Torleif Thedéen, Cello

Kathryn Selby, Piano

Czech mates: Selby & Friends delight

Simon Hukin, 1st June

Kathryn Selby, Andrew Haveron, and Timo-Veikko Valve enchanted with a largely Czech programme of chamber music.

****1

Tabita Berglund renews the RSNO's love affair with Jean Sibelius

Simon Thompson, 13th May

Music by (and inspired by) Sibelius sounds great in this Scottish performance, but Dvořák’s Cello Concerto fails to cohere.

***11

Unbelievable harmony at Carnegie Hall

Edward Sava-Segal, 7th December

Starting her Perspectives series, Janine Jansen invited three outstanding musicians to join her in 20th century repertoire.

*****

Supergroup Messiaen at Wigmore Hall

Roy Westbrook, 2nd June

If not the ideal first half to precede the Quartet for the End of Time, there could be no quarrel with the execution thoroughout.

****1

Pushing musical boundaries in Auckland

Simon Holden, 11th May

This was a most impressive showing from the orchestra and conductor in which the works of three influential composers given emotionally engrossing treatment.

****1

Janine Jansen and friends ticking all the boxes in a Viennese programme at Wigmore Hall

Chris Garlick, 8th February

This was an ingenious and memorable concert of rarities and hybrids from early 20th-century Vienna, curated and performed by the ever imaginative Janine Jansen.

*****

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Zoltán Szabó

Zoltán Szabó is a cellist and musicologist. Having migrated from his native Hungary to Australia in 1985, he worked with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Sydney until 1991, when he became Principal Cello with Opera Australia. In 2017, he was awarded with a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD). Currently, he is teaching music history and musicology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

A most valuable friend: Torleif Thedéen guests for the Selby & Friends concert series