The Parkhouse Award Final Concert

It's an honour for being invited to listen to the final concert from The Parkhouse Award at Wigmore Hall, London yesterday. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my friend, an Italy pianist: Mariangela Vacatello.

Beautiful performances

The whole concert was given by three groups of musicians. Paul Monkemeyer (Viola) and Nicholas Rimmer (Piano), Rautio Piano Trio, and Giovanni Gnocchi (Cello) and Mariangella Vacatello (Piano).

I intentionally chose the seat more close to the back but in the middle of the whole Wigmore Hall, as normally I would prefer to sit where I can watch the pianist's miraculous playing.

The sound is absolutely beautiful I must admit, and guess that only classical music can reach such glorious and brilliant sound atmosphere.

When closing your eyes, probably you would even enjoy more to identify which sound is coming from the piano, or the viola, or the cello, or the violin.

And you will just imagine what these little notes are murmuring? What fairytale they're trying to tell to their dear audiences.

It's good fun to practise your ears and trace all the different levels and types of sound, especially listening chamber music concert.

Rautio Piano Trio

I enjoyed all three performances. However, personally I really like the second one, the three perfomers are collabarating extremely well.

I particularly enjoy the melody of their chosen piece. Trio No 3 in C minor, from Johannes Brahms.

The Rautio Piano Trio formed in 2004, and has now drew together three outstanding young musicians from Russia, Britian, and Israel.

Three musicians are the prize-winning graduates from RAM, RCM, and RNCM.

Mariangela and her cellist Giovanni Gnocchi

Italian people's enthusiastic and passionate personality even more explosed when making music. The two distinguished music figures dedicated to audience very different and exotic music.

You can easily felt the passion and enthusiasm from their performances, they're playing with pure heart. And this is what I really like from Mariangela and Giovanni.

I just guess musicians from Mediterranean region tend to express themselves more freely and exaggeratedly. Though some of them I have heard still like the English ones, a bit more conservative.

But particular culture does strongly fertilise its music or other types of art.

Mariangela and Giovanni won the public prize and the two German Musicians, the first perfomance won The Parkhouse Award.