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16 November 2022
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Royal

Concert Hall, Nottingham. 16 November 2022.

5*****. William Ruff

Nottingham

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham

November 16 2022

5*****

Review: William Ruff

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High octane, colourful performances from the RLPO and Isata Kanneh-Mason

Star pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason was back home in Nottingham on Wednesday

evening to give an immaculate performance of an elegant, sophisticated musical

joke: the Variations on a Nursery Song by Hungarian composer Ernó Dohnányi.

Of course, you have to be in the know to find it funny because it’s packed with

musical digs at his fellow composers. Even if you don’t spot the fun he has at the

expense of people like Brahms, Mahler and Johann Strauss, you’ll probably spot
his good-natured teasing of Paul Dukas and his Sorcerer’s Apprentice. But no

one ever misses the musical ambush of the opening: the gloomy, Wagnerian