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Kate Price - 'cellist

Wigmore Hall Review

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The Strad - April 1999

"This substantial Wigmore Hall recital by Welsh cellist Kate Price proved to be a late highlight of 1998, a demonstration of musical range, drama passion and technical precision.

Shostakovich's gargantuan Sonata in D minor op.40 is an intimidating opener, but Price's assured performance was well paced and supremely accurate. The elegiac quality of the first movement was captured perfectly, while the sardonic moderato con moto second movement had truly savage bite. The Largo, by contrast, was heart-rendingly profound."

Carl Vine's Inner World, was written for cello and tape in 1994 "this driving, dramatic piece is proving increasingly popular. Price's rendition was nothing short of mesmeric utterly convincing both as music and as theatre thanks to atmospheric lighting effects. Price's involvement in the score and her variegated tone and timbre made this the strongest rendition of the piece I have heard - as spiritually intense an experience as one could hope for from the concert platform.

Kurt Schwertsik's Drei späte Liebeslieder...für Christa are attractive modern miniatures which Price portrayed with élan. And if Franck's Sonata in A major was a well-known work with which to end, she never once allowed familiarity to breed ennui; it was always fresh, focused and full of feeling. On the strength of this recital, Price seems destined for greatness."


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