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CANBERRA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL OPENING WEEKEND ROUNDUP
This year’s CIMF continues to build on its previous strengths and uniquely positioned character, writes our reviewer from Canberra.
by Vincent Plush on April 30, 2018
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Canberra International Music Festival Opening Weekend
Fitters’ Workshop, Canberra
April 27 – 29, 2018
A few hours later, a full-house greeted the first of two Debussy-Chopin programs by Roger Woodward. The once-notorious wunderkind of the avant garde is now revered elder statesman; at 75, he is as vital and essential as ever. Listening to his playing recalled Woodward’s formative lessons with Zbigniew Drzewiecki at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw a half-century ago. I could not recall such deliberative and magisterial pianism since Arthur Rubenstein’s recitals here in June 1964. Just put on a YouTube clip of Rubenstein and Woodward’s lineage and own legacy becomes immediately clear. After two encores and an ovation, his second recital on Tuesday evening will surely be a sell-out.