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Paul Lewis and The Nash Ensemble receive critical acclaim

Two nights of performances in a row this week at Wigmore Hall have received praise in the national press:

Paul Lewis

Pianist Paul Lewis has earned a 5 star review for his recital on Tuesday 22 March in The Telegraph. Ivan Hewitt said of the performance,

"Lewis used different colours not just to summon Romantic moonlit glades, but also to make the music’s architecture speak. It was his way of acknowledging the classical strain in Schubert, and it gave the whole recital a luminous clarity as well as poetic insight"

• Read the full review at telegraph.co.uk

The Nash Ensemble

The Paul Lewis concert was then followed the next evening by our Chamber Ensemble in Residence, The Nash Ensemble, who performed three premieres followed by a late night concert in celebration of Sir Richard Rodney-Bennett's 75th birthday.

Michael Church asks,

"Where would British music have been without the Nash? Artistically poorer, for since its foundation in 1964, this world-beating ensemble has commissioned 160 new works, including major ones by Elliot Carter, Harrison Birtwistle, Mark-Anthony Turnage, plus a catalogue of other now-prominent composers"

• Read the full review at independent.co.uk