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| Composer | Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) |
| Period | Romantic |
| Work type | Vocal |
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Conrad Tao’s glorious exercises in parody, persistence and technology
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Conrad Tao bookends his Zankel Hall recital, performed on a concert grand and a large electronic keyboard, with Debussy’s 12 Études.
Joby Burgess and Matthew Sharp in uncharted territory
It’s not every evening that you hear a composition played on two serrated Nigerian Fanta bottles. Nor is it every evening that you hear pieces by Schumann and David Byrne (formerly of Talking Heads) in the same concert. Nor, for that matter, do cellists often sing. As this concert’s title suggested, ‘Uncharted’ at Kings Place was very much a trip into the unknown.