Anthony Goldstone

Anthony Goldstone was a flexible pianist whose all-encompassing technique, interpretive acumen, and wide repertory, including many functions for piano duo, placed him within a category nearly by himself among British pianists of his generation. Practically all his two-piano shows were along with his wife, Caroline Clemmow. Goldstone also frequently performed chamber music, frequently using the ensemble he founded, Music artists from the Royal Exchange. He also performed within a trio with violinist Ralph Holmes and cellist Moray Welsh. While Goldstone sometimes preferred music by United kingdom composers, including functions by Parry, Elgar, Bridge, Holst, Ireland, Britten, Berkeley, Ronald Stevenson, and Colin Matthews, his repertory required in a number of composers: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Arensky, Glière, Dohnányi, Gershwin, and many more. Goldstone concertized across European countries, Asia, Australia, Africa, as well as the Americas. He was prolific in the documenting studio, showing up on a lot more than 80 CDs for such brands as Chandos, Naxos, Toccata Classics, Meridian, Amphion, and Olympia. Anthony Goldstone was created in Liverpool, Britain, on July 25, 1944. He analyzed music in the Royal Manchester University of Music, where his most significant piano instructor was Derrick Wyndham. He previously later research with Maria Curcio. Goldstone debuted in Manchester in 1965 using the RMCM Orchestra under John Barbirolli. 2 yrs later Goldstone received prizes at worldwide piano contests in Munich and Vienna. Goldstone’s London debut was at Wigmore Hall in 1969. In 1973 Goldstone was produced a fellow in the RMCM, and by this time around he was occupied touring both like a soloist and duo pianist. In the 1976 London Promenade Concerts, he made an appearance at the favorite YESTERDAY EVENING concert inside a overall performance of Britten’s Diversions for piano, remaining hand, that was broadcast on the BBC. In 1978 Goldstone founded the Music artists from the Royal Exchange and offered as its movie director and pianist. Through the entire latter 20th hundred years and in to the 21st Goldstone was energetic on all fronts. From about the 1990s he started making several recordings for the Olympia label, a lot of which were reissued around the Divine Artwork label. Among Goldstone’s later on recordings may be the 2010 Compact disc The Piano in the Carnival, on Divine Artwork, which includes a variety of functions by Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, as well as others. Goldstone passed on on January 2, 2017, having been identified as having cancer in past due 2016. His last solo documenting, Pianist on the Ballet, Vol. 2, premiered posthumously.