Welcome to Worldwide Artists
Viv McLean performs with
The Hallé at the Bridgewater Hall
Bernstein:
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
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Worldwide Artistsabout us
Established in 2009, Worldwide Artists represents a select roster of international concert and recording artists.
Worldwide Artists provides expert consulting services to classical music festivals and organisations. WA is the music contractor for the London Soundtrack Orchestra and London Ensemble; and is a leading name in international private and corporate event music management and special project development.
New
Marianne Thorsen
Recording
with Trondheim Symphony Orchestra / Nick Davies
2L-173-SABD
Marianne Thorsen spiller herlig, med god og feit tone, og overlegent overskudd der hun virkelig lener seg inn i musikken.
Marianne Thorsen plays beautifully, with a good and bold tone, and superior energy where she really leans into the music.
Ballade.no
New Martin Owen Recording
RICHARD STRAUSS
Concerto No.1, Op.11 in E-Flat Major
Concerto No.2 in E-Flat Major
CARL MARIA VON WEBER
Concertino, Op.45 In E Minor
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Concertstück, Op.86 in F Major for Four Horns and Large Orchestra
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / John Wilson
…this is a recording of distinction.
Recording of the Month - Recommended (Oct '23)
Peter J Rabinowitz Gramophone magazine
…there’s no greater tonic that the Schumann, and no better sonorities could be imagined; the recording captures them beautifully … It’s a sheer joy, with only superficial melancholy adding more colours. I’ll be playing that over and over again.
David Nice BBC Music magazine

MARIANNE THORSEN violin
The IndependentConcert Review, Nielsen Concerto Performance, London
The glory of the evening, however, was the Norwegian violinist Marianne Thorsen's performance of Nielsen's Violin Concerto - technically first-rate and full of love for this very lovable music.
International Record ReviewMozart: Concertos 3-5 CD (2L)Trondheim Soloists Norwegian Spellemann Prize: Best Classical Album
This was masterly playing, impeccably phrased and articulated. Rarely has Mozart come dancing off the page so enticingly. Thorsen's deeply committed playing succeeds in making the music both expressively cogent and structurally compelling.
MARTIN OWEN horn
The Sunday Times Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings CD (Linn) Scottish Ensemble, Toby Spence
Owen's playing is a luxury for the ear.
The Times Elliot Carter Concerto at the composer's 100th birthday at the Barbican. BBCSO / Oliver Knussen
Martin Owen dazzled us in the recent Horn Concerto, a jubilant celebration of this "peculiar instrument" (Carter's phrase), with the solo gymnastics magically tinctured by a rainbow of wonders, from tutti shrieks and a percussion salsa to whispers of vibraphone and muted brass.
VIV MCLEAN piano
Le Monde, ParisRecital performance at Festival de Melle, France
Extraordinary originality, superb simplicity, and fingers of steel hidden behind muscles of velvet. He is an otherworldly young man - he plays with the genius one finds in those who know how to forget themselves, naturally placing themselves at the right point to meet the music, this mystery of the moment.
The TimesRecital performance at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London.
The pianist Viv McLean never faltered, spewing molten lava.
RUI PINHEIROconductor
Hardmusica, PortugalConcert with Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa including Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto with Artur Pizarro
Pinheiro is a sober conductor, with restrained but firm gestures, always keeping the musicians attentive to his baton. Rui Pinheiro is a conductor which, by the simplicity of his conducting, achieves exactly what he wants: a brilliant and perfect execution of the works he interprets.
Bournemouth Echo Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Pinheiro's immaculate orchestral balancing delighted our ears...finely gauged attention to the music's character…under the direction of Rui Pinheiro it was clear that the Pavilion soundstage had been transformed…with Rui Pinheiro on the podium we were assured well-focused reading.
