Michael will begin the New Year by performing alonside Liya Petrova at the New Year's Day concert in Sofia which will be broadcast live on TV.
John's Smith Square for a centenary celebration of the cellist Kenneth Heath. He also gives the first performance of JR Heath's Cello Concerto since 1962 at St. This season, he returns to the Leicester International Music Festival for performances of chamber works with other world renowned musicians. Most recent orchestral highlights have included Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Barber Concerto with the New Symphony Orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Haydn's Concerto in D with Sinfonia Cymru. In 2013 he performed Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante at the Barbican conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Further afield he has given recitals at Carnegie’s Weill Hall and Los Angeles Cello Festival, and toured throughout China and Argentina.Īs a soloist Michael has appeared with the Philharmonia, Bournemouth Symphony and CBSO Youth Orchestras, as well as the Munich Chamber and English Chamber Orchestras, and has worked with conductor such as Edward Gardner and Rory MacDonald. In a reminder of another of Dutilleux’s predecessors, Batiashvili and Braley also delivered a reading of Debussy’s late Violin Sonata that maintained a constant sense of improvisation while emphasising its extraversion and brilliance.The award-winning cellist Michael Petrov has impressed audiences and critics with his “captivating musical temperament and a direct eloquence, as if speaking through his instrument” (Die Welt).Īn ECHO Rising Star in the 2015/16 season, Michael has performed at major concert halls including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Cité de la Musique Paris, Musikverein Vienna, Budapest Palace of Arts, Kölner Philharmonie and the Laeiszhalle Hamburg.
DUTILLEUX STROPHES PLUS
This performance by Capuçon – together with violinists Lisa Batiashvili and Valeriy Sokolov plus viola player Gérard Caussé – showed total mastery of its tight structure and dynamic range.Įarlier, Batiashvili, Capuçon and Braley came together for a performance of Ravel’s Piano Trio that demonstrated its vibrant passion and surprising grandeur. Premiered in 1977, this intense and unsettling 20-minute nocturnal has established itself as a classic of the medium, its seven movements exploring an exceptional variety of instrumental colour and texture, often drawing on special effects to do so. Their relationship to Debussy’s works in the genre is obvious, though Dutilleux’s harmony and textures are far denser and his technical demands much greater Braley nevertheless brought to them an easy sense of command combined with absolute expressive conviction.ĭutilleux’s sole string quartet, Ainsi La Nuit – surely one of his works most likely to survive – brought the programme to a close. Pianist Frank Braley followed with an equally striking interpretation of Dutilleux’s Three Preludes, written over a period of 15 years and eventually published in 1988.
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