Archive for July, 2011
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“An impressive Wigmore Hall debut”
Posted in Music by Robert Henry
I’m just back from my Wigmore recital, which was a lot of fun.
Read the Review — “AN IMPRESSIVE WIGMORE HALL DEBUT”
This was Robert Henry’s first Wigmore Hall recital and it seems to have come on the back of his debut CD recording ‘Twelve Nocturnes and a Waltz’. Mr Henry has won various international piano competitions so I was interested to see how he would fare in this mixed programme of 18th, 19th and 20th century masterpieces.
He began well with Siloti’s famous transcription of Bach’s prelude in E minor (transposed by Siloti to B minor). The transcription allows the pianist to demonstrate the full tonal and expressive range of the piano and Henry used it to show he could produce a gorgeous tone, and his immense control of voicing, texture and dynamics.
Henry’s performance of the first 12 preludes and fugues from Book 1 of the ‘48’ was very romantic, using the full tonal and expressive… SEEN AND HEARD INTERNATIONAL
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Solo recital Highlands, NC
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CD now on iTunes
Posted in Music by Robert Henry
Hi, y’all. My debut CD, Twelve Nocturnes and a Waltz, is now on iTunes.
$9.99 for the album, or $.99 per track
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