Wigmore Hall, London
James Baillieu’s playing needed a touch more personality in the Mozart but the Elgar was convincingly shaped
Pianist James Baillieu is a featured artist at the Wigmore Hall this season, mostly in duo with a series of similarly young singers. Not much chance on such a small stage, one would think, of hearing him in play in the spotlight as a concerto soloist – but that would be to reckon without Mozart’s own arrangement for piano and string quartet of his Concerto in A, K414.
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