Comments on: Winter in Australia https://albangerhardt.com/winter-in-australia/ Just another WordPress site Sat, 03 Jun 2017 09:20:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Alban Gerhardt https://albangerhardt.com/winter-in-australia/#comment-809 Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:11:13 +0000 http://albangerhardt.com/?p=1865#comment-809 Thank you very much for your flattering review, it is always a pleasure playing with Steven and in that amazing hall – glad you liked the program, wasn’t my idea 🙂

]]> By: David Nice https://albangerhardt.com/winter-in-australia/#comment-808 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 17:09:18 +0000 http://albangerhardt.com/?p=1865#comment-808 I only arrived in Edinburgh after the Quatuor but, as I think you know, I thought the recital with Steven Osborne was one in a thousand. Not just the programming, but just the sheer fluidity of the Britten Cello Suite (never heard it that way before), the revelation of the first late Beethoven sonata (I know the second much better) and just the absolute genius of the Britten Cello Sonata. My partner hadn’t heard it before and exclaimed, ‘original in every bar’. And couldn’t be anyone else.

But it’s such a great idea to have consecutive solo contributions in the first half, too. Not Steven’s fault if I didn’t take to Tippett’s last sonata (I love the two before it), but still the breadth of it made the whole concert feel epic. And then the Schumann encore…sorry I didn’t come to see you afterwards but didn’t feel it quite ethical when I had yet to write about it. Komm bald zurueck!

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