Warkworth Music anticipates better year
Warkworth Music will open its 2021 season with a concert by Trio Elan on April 17.
Warkworth Music is looking forward to a smoother season this year after Covid 19 disruptions forced the cancellation of five of its scheduled seven concerts last year.
Seven monthly concerts are scheduled again this year, starting in April with Trio Elan.
Warkworth Music president Lisa Outwin says last year was a challenging year for all, particularly performers and event organisers.
“Only the concerts by Stephen de Pledge and Vesa & Friends proceeded as planned,” Lisa says.
“Fortunately, we were able to arrange two replacement concerts at short notice, thanks to the NZ Trio and the New Zealand String Quartet. All 2020 concerts were outstanding and received very positive audience feedback.”
Last modified on Thu 10 Dec 2020 23.37 EST
Daniel Barenboim spent lockdown earlier this year practising the piano. One of the fruits of that intensive work has been his fifth complete recording of the Beethoven sonatas, together with the Diabelli Variations, which appeared in October. But Barenboim had already begun to revisit Beethoven for this yearâs anniversary 12 months ago, when he performed the piano trios in two concerts in Berlin, with his violinist son Michael and the cellist Kian Soltani, both former members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Whether these new discs are taken directly from those live performances isnât clear, but they were certainly recorded in the same venue, the Pierre Boulez Saal.