From an interview with Tarmo Peltokoski at the Granada Festival:
‘A personal passion of mine is the music of Vaughan Williams, the great English composer, which is not really played anywhere. So we shall be exploring that a little bit…’
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Messiaen Vingt régards de l’enfant Jésus (1944) Nicolas Hodges (piano). Wigmore Hall, 31.05.2024 The last time I heard Messiaen’s vast Jesus-oriented canvas was at Milton Court in 2016 (review), Pierre-Laurent Aimard was the pianist, a […]
The award winning pianist and Moscow Conservatoire professor Yuri Slepanov died today in Moscow. He was a finalist at Leeds (1969) and the Tchaikovsky (1970) before winning a UUSR-only competition in Talinn. The post Russian […]
Yesterday’s winners at the Met Opera’s Laffont Competition are: Sadie Cheslak, 30, mezzo-soprano (Duluth, Minnesota) Michelle Mariposa, 30, mezzo-soprano (Quezon City, Philippines) Luke Sutliff, 28, baritone (Denver, Colorado) Alissa Goretsky, 25, soprano (Los Angeles) Emma […]
