July 3, 2025 : Wondercab Mini (93A)
SAMSON TSOY & PAVEL KOLESNIKOV CHANNEL DAVID HOCKNEY IN PARIS
PART TWO
Continuing on from last week: As part of his expert curation of a gorgeous late-life-summing retrospective of the British/Californian master David Hockney at the Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris (currently up, through the end of August), Sir Norman Rosenthal invited his friends (and ours, here at the Cabinet) the young London-based Russian four-hand piano (and life) partners Samson Tsoy and Pavel Kolesnikov to fashion a two-day concert, featuring the sort of visual/musical thematic braiding for which they have been becoming increasingly renowned.
The results were videorecorded (exceptionally well) and here is the SECOND of those concerts, this time pitched in the key of pure joy: the Russian pair were joined by vocal soloists Nicky Spence & Elena Stikhina and percussionists Colin Currie & Owen Gunnell, in a program featuring the music of Mozart, Stravinsky, and Britten (both weaving braids around the lyrics of WH Auden) and then French composers Ravel and Satie, and finally Steve Reich’s improvisation for clapping hands. As everyone else’s presently did as well, in thunderous appreciation there at the end for two evenings well spent! Enjoy.
To view/listen click HERE, but do so soon since public access to the video may be taken down at the conclusion of Hockney’s Paris show at the end of August.
And meanwhile, as we mentioned last week, Samson and Pavel will be in Residence at the Marfa Ballroom in Texas in September. If you are in any way able to attend, don’t miss that either.
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See you next week!