{"id":97747,"date":"2026-11-05T19:36:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97747"},"modified":"2026-11-05T19:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:36:58","slug":"review-string-duo-sol-gabetta-and-patricia-kopatchinskaja-impress-in-theatrical-hong-kong-recital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97747","title":{"rendered":"Review | String duo Sol Gabetta and Patricia Kopatchinskaja impress in theatrical Hong Kong recital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/11\/05\/d508f560-87b3-481a-b010-c57f47e4ed55_b203a196.jpg?itok=xOBYkvC0&amp;v=1793864531\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Seldom is the idiom to show up \u201cwith bells on toes\u201d taken literally, but that is exactly what Moldavian-Austrian-Swiss violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta did at their recital at <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Hong Kong City Hall<\/span> on November 2.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Classical music boundaries have no place in the pair\u2019s playbook, and their theatrical entrance for the last leg of their Asian tour \u2013 each from opposite sides of the stage, dressed in bold colours and wearing slip-ons with bell-lined toes \u2013 was a clear sign that formality was well off the table.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The bells also made for a neat enhancement of their jaunty arrangement of French baroque virtuoso violinist Jean-Marie Leclair\u2019s \u201cTambourin in C\u201d, adding a tambourine effect to a dance movement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3373372\/string-duo-sol-gabetta-and-patricia-kopatchinskaja-impress-theatrical-hong-kong-recital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seldom is the idiom to show up \u201cwith bells on toes\u201d taken literally, but that is exactly what Moldavian-Austrian-Swiss violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Argentine cellist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2762,32451,3569,9639,5231,32453,32452,32454,28,11732,26860,10369],"class_list":["post-97747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-duo","tag-gabetta","tag-hong","tag-impress","tag-kong","tag-kopatchinskaja","tag-patricia","tag-recital","tag-review","tag-sol","tag-string","tag-theatrical","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}