Lovely pianists
Garth Wilshere
Classical Expressions 2010, Expressions Upper Hutt, 27 April, Reviewed by Garth Wilshere
THE first of this imaginative series brought together two of our excellent pianists in piano duet and solos.
Their solos were Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in A flat major from Sayers; and Schubert’s impromptu for piano, Drei Klavierstücke D 946 (Three piano pieces), No. 2 Allegretto, from Mapp. I think the concert would have been better structured and more distinctive for audiences as just a piano duet recital.
The evening really came alive with both of them at the piano.
The quirky Satie, Pieces in the form of a Pear were intriguing fun.
Mozart’s sparkling Sonata in F for piano duet, K497 was lovely, quintessential Mozart – operatic, dramatic, witty – and beautifully done.
Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, last heard in this venue with Pascal Rogé and his partner Ami Hakumo was as delightful and charming as ever in a great, tonally colourful, performance from Mapp and Sayers, and so were The Three Brahms Hungarian Dances, Nos 5, 7 and 8.
The new commission for this tour from Kenneth Young – Variations on a Prayer – fitted well into a programme featuring French music, being reminiscent in style to the French School. It is a piece in the spirit of a prayer and composed in the spirit of variations, a good addition to the repertoire.
This was a very smart recital capped of by the pizzazz of the stylish encore of Vincent Youman’s Tea for Two. We could have had more of other such delightful arrangements.
THE first of this imaginative series brought together two of our excellent pianists in piano duet and solos.
Their solos were Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in A flat major from Sayers; and Schubert’s impromptu for piano, Drei Klavierstücke D 946 (Three piano pieces), No. 2 Allegretto, from Mapp. I think the concert would have been better structured and more distinctive for audiences as just a piano duet recital.
The evening really came alive with both of them at the piano.
The quirky Satie, Pieces in the form of a Pear were intriguing fun.
Mozart’s sparkling Sonata in F for piano duet, K497 was lovely, quintessential Mozart – operatic, dramatic, witty – and beautifully done.
Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, last heard in this venue with Pascal Rogé and his partner Ami Hakumo was as delightful and charming as ever in a great, tonally colourful, performance from Mapp and Sayers, and so were The Three Brahms Hungarian Dances, Nos 5, 7 and 8.
The new commission for this tour from Kenneth Young – Variations on a Prayer – fitted well into a programme featuring French music, being reminiscent in style to the French School. It is a piece in the spirit of a prayer and composed in the spirit of variations, a good addition to the repertoire.
This was a very smart recital capped of by the pizzazz of the stylish encore of Vincent Youman’s Tea for Two. We could have had more of other such delightful arrangements.
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