The competition has reached its semi-final stage without controversy. Three contestants pulled out and a fourth, Magdalene Ho, was dubiously eliminated after a first round performance in which she showed more character than all the […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: … The contrast flows back and forth, almost to the point of incoherence. It takes a truly great composer to throw up his hands and say, I don’t […]
Back in 2022, I reported from a concert in Strasbourg’s Palais de la Musique et des Congrès that included the pieces here, plus on that occasion Shoskakovich’s First Violin Concerto with Simone Lamsma (stepping in […]