Lawrence Power Viola
Engagements
Friday, 19th October 2018 at 8.15pm
de Doelen Hall Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Macmillan: Viola Concerto
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Lahav Shani, conductor
Saturday, 20th October 2018 at 7.30pm
Wigmore Hall London UK
German Romanticism
- Bruch: String Octet in B flat
- Mendelssohn: String Quintet no.2 in B flat, op.87
- Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B min, op.115
Promoter: The Nash Ensemble of London
... Power is something more: a profound musical personality, his every phrase new and noteworthy
SUNDAY TIMES
... soloist Lawrence Power delivered the most poetic and compelling performance of this wayward piece that I've ever encountered. The young English violist brought a confiding intimacy and dizzying range of expression from the conversational playfulness of the opening theme to the hushed tranquillity of at the end of the second movement. Throughout ... Power conjured an array of unearthly colours from his remarkable instrument ...
LAWRENCE A JOHNSON, Chicago Classical Review
on Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder
performing Berlioz Harold in Italy, January 2012