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2005年03月20日
London debut
Suddenly England seems to have started summer! Whereas a few days ago it was freezing with many threats of snow it is suddenly over 20 Celcius, crystal blue sky and beautiful sunshine. I'm in a great mood and thought I'd write something for the blog.
I've been terribly busy since New Year and just haven't really had time to write anything. I played Bruch Double concerto in Moscow for their New Year's Prom season and then played a recital program of ONLY Beethoven sonatas.
I returned to England in the middle of January and have since played almost 20 concerts. It's been a hectic but lovely tour of mainly England going to many towns all over the place and playing in all sorts of concert halls. I think the smallest hall was a hall in the Welsh National Museum in Cardiff played on a beautiful, new, interesting piano made by Wayne Stuart. Check out their web-site http://www.stuartandsons.com/pages/home.html .
The biggest venues were the Birmingham Symphony Hall which is similar to the Yokohama Minato Mirari hall and tonight will be at the Barbican Centre, the home of the LSO. I never played a solo recital there: well, sort of - about 13 years ago I played 12 Etudes Opus 10 by Chopin in the hall "lobby" for a charity event. Today I will play 12 Etudes Opus 25 by Chopin in the Main Hall! So that is at least some sort of progress!
I better go now actually - there is no subway trains working today where I live so I have to drive...