Callum Smart Featured Artist broadcast
Callum was Featured Artist on BBC Radio 3 last Sunday. Presenter Jonathan Swain talked about Callum and played Ravel’s Pièce en forme de Habanera and Poulenc’s Violin Sonata from our CD La Voix.
Category Archives: La Voix
La Voix review (BBC Music Magazine)
Review of La Voix from Christopher Dingle in BBC Music Magazine:
La Voix review (ARTAMAG)
La Voix was selected as ‘Le Disque du Jour’ in French arts magazine ARTAMAG, and reviewed by Jean-Charles Hoffelé: “Smart’s second recording is once again on a French theme which is executed with flair…It is an inspired idea to open the recording with Poulenc’s capricious Violin Sonata. He plays it darkly and mysteriously with fantasy, […]
La Voix review (The Strad)
The Strad magazine selected La Voix as a Recommended Recording in their June issue. It was reviewed by Julian Haylock: Accompanied by an illuminating booklet note that captures the essence of Fauré’s A major Sonata as being composed ‘against a backdrop of heartache’, Callum Smart and Richard Uttley gently caress the finest of his early […]
Tour with Callum Smart
Some photos from concerts with Callum Smart this March playing Mozart Sonata K378, James MacMillan After the Tryst, Poulenc Sonata and Richard Strauss Violin Sonata. We had several dates in the UK, culminating in Wigmore Hall, then went to Paris for the Auditorium du Louvre and to Berlin for the Konzerthaus.
La Voix review (Observer)
Review of La Voix by Stephen Pritchard from last Sunday’s Observer: “If you need any convincing that the choice of title for this album is an appropriate one, just listen to the dreamy intermezzo of Poulenc’s sonata for violin and piano, FP 119: in the hands of Callum Smart and Richard Uttley its vocal quality […]
La Voix released
La Voix, my new CD with violinist Callum Smart, is out now on Orchid Classics. Here’s our introduction to the repertoire: The starting point for the disc was French music for violin and piano, but a theme that emerged as we rehearsed and explored these works was that of the voice. As such, we decided […]