Our May issue is devoted to that versatile, under-appreciated instrument: the viola. Tabea Zimmermann is one of its leading champions today, with her teaching, performing and commissioning, and here she performs one of the highlights of the repertoire, Schumann's Märchenbilder.
To tie in with our review of her Berlioz CD, Tabea Zimmermann shares her wisdom on getting the most out of your practice
Meditative and majestic forays into Berlioz’s Byronic world
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 ...
In this video from this year’s Bravo! Vail festival, the Dover Quartet reflects on how the global pandemic has impacted them as individuals and as an ensemble and perform the 2nd and 3rd movements of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 74, ‘Harp’. The players ...
In the second of their performances matching chamber music with paintings from the National Gallery, members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra bring together Joseph Haydn’s ‘String trio in C major’ of 1766 and a painting by François-Hubert Drouais. Created only a couple of years apart in the 1760s, they demonstrate ...
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 ...
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