Jonathan Powell - Albeniz - Oxford

[Pianorak]

Jonathan Powell (piano) playing Albéniz: Iberia at Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College, Cowley Place, Oxford on Friday 11 May, 8pm.

[ahinton]

Jonathan Powell (piano) playing Albéniz: Iberia at Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College, Cowley Place, Oxford on Friday 11 May, 8pm.

Absolutely not to be missed!

[Bryn]

Jonathan Powell (piano) playing Albéniz: Iberia at Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College, Cowley Place, Oxford on Friday 11 May, 8pm.

The previous evening, starting 6.30pm, he plays it in the Schott Recital Room, Great Marlborough Street, London.

[ahinton]

The previous evening, starting 6.30pm, he plays it in the Schott Recital Room, Great Marlborough Street, London.

Indeed (can't make that one, sadly) and he also played it last Thursday at Queen's University, Belfast.

[Pianorak]

The previous evening, starting 6.30pm, he plays it in the Schott Recital Room, Great Marlborough Street, London.

Thanks for that, Bryn. Much more manageable!

[Pianorak]

Having lived happily with recordings of Albeniz's Iberia (Hamelin, Barenboim, De Larrocha a.o.) for quite a few years it was a pleasure to hear the work live this evening in the intimate setting of Schott's Music Room. Jonathan Powell, playing all Four Books without a score and without a break on a Steinway M was fully up to the enormous technical demands, including the impossible quintuple fortes in Corpus Christi en Sevilla. Jonathan fully deserved the long and rapterous applause from a capacity audience.
Jonathan will repeat the programme at St Hilda's College, Oxford tomorrow evening.

[gradus]

I'm envious, I'd love to hear it live but he has no perfs listed in Suffolk. Just what M. Aimard should be programming at Aldeburgh.

[ahinton]

Having lived happily with recordings of Albeniz's Iberia (Hamelin, Barenboim, De Larrocha a.o.) for quite a few years it was a pleasure to hear the work live this evening in the intimate setting of Schott's Music Room. Jonathan Powell, playing all Four Books without a score and without a break on a Steinway M was fully up to the enormous technical demands, including the impossible quintuple fortes in Corpus Christi en Sevilla. Jonathan fully deserved the long and rapterous applause from a capacity audience.
Jonathan will repeat the programme at St Hilda's College, Oxford tomorrow evening.

Indeed he will and I shall be there! Having heard him play Goyescas a couple of times over the last decade or so, my expectations are understandably high!

[ahinton]

An outstanding performance, without doubt. A few minor bloopers and accidents along the way (and what a perilous way replete with pitfalls it is!), but otherwise a deeply committed and convincing - nay, compelling - account of this major cycle of piano pieces; he should be booked to play it elsewhere, not least in Spain itself!