Back at Kings Place tomorrow for a first recital with Vanessa Benelli Mosell, a gifted young Italian pianist I’m really looking forward to working with. The programme is a delight. After Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro (one of my all time favourite cello and piano pieces), the rest of the music is all classical compositions influenced by folk idioms from various countries: Schumann’s 5 Pieces in Folk Style reveals German folk melodies; the little known Tsintsadze from Georgia also wrote 5 Pieces in Folk Style (a commission from Danil Shafran) using fabulous Russian and Georgian folk tunes; Janacek’s Pohadka (Fairy Tale) mixes Czech and Russian styles, and Bartok’s whirling 6 Romanian Dances end the programme. Come along if you can – 3.30 in Hall One at Kings Place
Matthew Barley/Cellist
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
Victor Hugo