Erica Jeal

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Erica Jeal

JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations is a work many pianists put on the back burner for years, waiting until they feel their interpretation has matured before showing it to the world. Not so for Yunchan Lim, who turned 21 a couple of weeks ago in between giving concerts of the Goldbergs in the US. Maturity and youth collided intriguingly in this hot-ticket performance, his first of the work in the UK.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Erica Jeal

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4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Erica Jeal

This release can only scratch the surface of the output of Errollyn Wallen, appointed Master of the King’s Music last summer, but it does demonstrate the eclecticism of her work. The pieces date from 2000 to 2023; all share a strong sense of momentum in these performances by the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor John Andrews.

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Erica Jeal

Florence Price’s Piano Quintet in A minor, composed in the mid-1930s, is yet another gem from the treasure trove of forgotten Price manuscripts discovered in 2009. The premiere recording was released by the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective only four years ago, but this new one, by the chamber-music dream team of the Takács Quartet and pianist Marc-André Hamelin, offers a different slant, placing the work more firmly in the classical tradition of the Dvořák with which it is paired.

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Erica Jeal

String players wielding baroque bows don’t often share the stage with a pianist sat at a modern Steinway grand, but that was the setup for this immersion in JS Bach’s keyboard concertos – six of them, performed by the pianist Alexandros Kapelis and the Berliner Barock Solisten. Formed of players moonlighting from the Berlin Philharmonic, the Solisten play on modern instruments but in historically informed style – hence those bows.