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VideoLawrence Power and Thomas Adès perform ‘3 Berceuses’
The violist performs with the composer at the piano in a film by Power’s video production company Âme
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Review
Live-streamed concert review: Nicola Benedetti (violin) Lawrence Power (viola) Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
Peter Quantrill tunes in to the performance from Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre on 23 May 2021
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Review
Concert review: Lawrence Power (viola/violin) Héloïse Werner (soprano) Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
Tim Homfray watches the recital at London’s Wigmore Hall on 22 June 2021
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Lockdown commissions 8: Lawrence Power and Héloïse Werner perform ‘Mixed Phrases’
The piece was composed by Werner, who performs it with Power in the eighth work of the Lockdown Commissions project
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Nicola Benedetti and Lawrence Power play Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante
The performance with the Oxford Philharmonic was streamed on 23 May, and also includes Benedetti performing Mozart’s Fifth Violin Concerto
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Lawrence Power plays Locked in C
The latest in the British violist’s series of commisions is by Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür
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News
Wigmore Hall to reopen with 25-concert anniversary festival
Tickets for all 25 concerts in the re-opening festival are available initially on a ballot basis to Friends of Wigmore Hall
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News
Lawrence Power sets up a new video production company
Âme is intended to produce films that explore the boundaries between music and other art forms
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Lockdown commissions 6: Lawrence Power plays William Marsey’s The Poor Room
In this, the sixth of ten videos, violist Lawrence Power plays William Marsery’s ‘The Poor Room’ at his house in London. The video was filmed by Jessie Rodger during the Christmas break, with sound by Brett Cox. Power says: ‘It’s interesting to reflect on the spaces and rooms that we ...
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Lockdown commissions 5: Lawrence Power plays Martyn Brabbins’s Matchless Space
In this, the fifth of ten videos filmed in and around empty iconic venues, violist Lawrence Power plays Martyn Brabbins’s ‘Matchless Space’ in the London Coliseum. Brabbins says: I was inspired to write ‘Matchless Space’ by the truly matchless viola playing of Lawrence Power, with whom I have enjoyed a ...
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West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival: closing concert
This is the last concert of Lawrence Power’s West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival, which, owing to the pandemic, the violist has broadcast online this year. He says: ‘For all my dear colleagues, friends and any freelance person on this planet whose beautiful work continues to be silenced by this current ...
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West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival: Masterclass with Lawrence Power
Owing to COVID-19, this year Lawrence Power has turned his West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival into a series of videos, released weekly online. In this second video from the festival, Lawrence Power works on the Bartók Viola Concerto with student Kinga Wojdalska. Watch: West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival: opening concert ...
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News
Shortlist announced for 2020 RPS awards
Among the string-playing nominees are Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Timothy Ridout and Lawrence Power
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West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival: opening concert
Owing to COVID-19, this year Lawrence Power has turned his West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival into a series of videos, released weekly online. Here is the first full concert, featuring Power alongside Pavel Kolesnikov, Vilde Frang, John Myerscough, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Annabelle Meare, Tim Crawford, Timothy Ridout and Sergio Bucheli. As ...
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Lockdown commissions 4: Lawrence Power plays Cassandra Miller’s ‘Daylonging, Slacktide’
In the fourth of his ten ‘lockdown commissions’ performances, filmed in and on top of iconic empty venues, violist Lawrence Power plays Cassandra Miller’s ’Daylonging, Slacktide’, filmed in and around Snape Maltings. This is what Miller says about the piece: ‘In March 2020, I found myself at Snape Maltings ...
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Lockdown commissions 3: Lawrence Power plays Esa-Pekka Salonen’s objets trouvés
In the third of his ten ‘lockdown commissions’ performances, filmed in and on top of iconic empty venues, violist Lawrence Power plays Esa-Pekka Salonen’s objets trouvés for solo viola and drone, filmed in an empty Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh.
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Review
Lawrence Power: MacMillan
Viola concerto is a 21st-century classic in the hands of a passionate advocate
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Lockdown commissions 2: Lawrence Power plays Garth Knox’s Quartet for One
In the second of his ‘lockdown commissions’ performances, filmed in and on top of iconic empty venues, violist Lawrence Power plays Garth Knox’s Quartet for One, filmed in an empty Southbank Centre.
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Lockdown commissions 1: Lawrence Power plays Huw Watkins’s ‘Power’ for solo viola
In the first of his ‘lockdown commissions’ performances, filmed in and on top of iconic empty venues, Lawrence Power plays Huw Watkins’s ‘Power’ for solo viola. Filmed by Jessie Rodger on the roof of St John’s, Smith Square. Stay tuned very soon for LC #2 - ‘Quartet for One’ by ...
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News
Lawrence Power commissions new music to perform in empty venues
The violist has commissioned ten composers to write pieces for him to premiere in and on top of empty venues
