A significant week

What a week - Classic FM podcast (see earlier blog), BBC Music Magazine Chamber Choice CD of the month with a double 5***** review and chosen for download, tomorrow live on Radio 3 at 5.15pm (14th January) and news of a Wigmore Hall appearance on March 9th and a King's Place recital on May 9th. Thrilled with the reception of the new CD, the radio support and now that I've completed the Anglo-Russian trilogy, the Walton and Shostakovich (1st) concertos with the Philharmonia under Alexander Briger is to be released later in the year. Meanwhile, Daniel Grimwood and I shall be following up on the recent CD with a recording of Chopin and Saint-Saens (2nd) sonatas in March for a release later in the year too. It always seems to snow when I record so hoping this latest onslaught of arctic weather will be over soon - we nearly got snowed in at the Wyastone Estate last year for the recording... ! Thank you for listening and supporting. If you can brave the elements this weekend on the 16th January and live in London, Daniel and I are giving a recital for the Hendon Music Society in a programme of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin and, appropriately in this weather, Shostakovich...

BBC Music Magazine Chamber Choice CD of the month double 5***** review

BBC Music Magazine BBC Choice CD of the month - double 5***** review

Classic FM interview podcast

Listen to the podcast Here.

BBC Music Magazine CD of the month

Just received the very exciting and encouraging news that the latest Grieg/Rachmaninov sonatas CD is to receive a double 5***** review in January's BBC Music Magazine which is then automatically nominated for an award. Fingers crossed . . .

I shall be completing the Anglo-Russian trilogy just before Christmas with the Philharmonia/Alexander Briger in the Walton concerto and Shostakovich 1st concerto. Then next year I can focus on recording the Dvorak and Schumann concertos . . ..watch this space!

After the success of the first North York Moors Chamber Music Festival I'm pleased to confirm the dates for next year - the festival will run from 16th to 28th August and details will be forthcoming on the festival page very soon.

I shall also be following up on the Grieg/Rachmaninov sonatas CD with my pianist Daniel Grimwood, on a disc to include the Poulenc, Debussy and Saint-Saens (2nd) sonatas sometime next year.

Having just returned from a tour of America (New York, Boston, San Francisco and Palo Alto) I'm trying to shift the jet lag especially at this busy time.

I'm pleased to announce a debut at London's King's Place on May 9th 2010 in a programme to include sonatas by Beethoven, Britten, Brahms and Prokofiev - as well as a performance of Chopin's sonata at Wigmore Hall on March 19th 2010 as part of the Jacqueline du Pre memorial concert.

Thanks for listening!

Interview on ABC Radio (Australia)

Interview on ABC Radio
australian_interview.mp3

The Melbourne Recital Centre

My concert for ABC radio was the first cello recital they'd had - a beautiful hall in every way; acoustically superb and particularly atmospheric. I also had the most fantastic publicist who made my debut in Melbourne unforgettable - the rather wonderful Di Rolle (www.dirolle.com)

Live with the Auckland Philharmonia

Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations for New Zealand radio