JOE CONWAY and LIZZIE BENNETT review this week’s classical gigs and tell you what’s coming up next.
Tab writers’ recommendations of books to read when travelling, camping or killing hours.
JOE CONWAY : ‘Throughout the concerto Arisa Fujita had held the audience spell-bound, especially in the two cadenzas, when you really could have heard the proverbial pin drop.’
JOE CONWAY: ‘The sonorities were rich and the energy levels high as all five players went full pelt for the final summation.’
JOE CONWAY: ‘after the interval Rachmaninov’s 2nd plunged the audience into a vortex of ultra-romanticism which constantly aspires towards the erotic’.