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Hill, Boyle: Piano Concertos CD review – Australia takes centre stage

Edit The Guardian 23 Oct 2016
Hyperion continue their exploration of the Romantic piano concerto with an intriguing disc of Australian examples, Piers Lane making a convincing case for his countrymen’s music....

Music review: Beethoven meets Russian Romantics with SLSO

Edit St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Oct 2016
Orli Shaham offers an intelligently played concerto ... ....

Tempesta di Mare celebrates autumn with 'The Four Seasons'

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 23 Oct 2016
By taking it apart and showing how it's put together ... They're spreading the four concertos over four concerts (this one featured "Autumn"), with lesser-known music from the era filling out each program ... ....

Demidenko, Symphony Silicon Valley give Scriabin his overdue place in the musical pantheon

Edit The Mercury News 23 Oct 2016
In 1986, before his final concert in Moscow, legendary virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz was asked his opinion of two composers whose music he had played all his life. He lavished his highest praise on Rachmaninoff. Hard to believe, but little has changed in the order of things ... It was a hit ... With Latvian conductor Edvard Tchivzhel at the helm and virtuoso Nikolai Demidenko at the piano, Scriabin’s Piano Concerto Op ... 2 Op ...   ... WHEN. 2.30 p.m....

Arts, theater and film notes Oct. 23

Edit The Oklahoman 23 Oct 2016
Sculptor returns to state. Oklahoma Contemporary, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., welcomes internationally recognized sculptor Melvin Edwards back to Oklahoma. His exhibit is running through Dec. 27. Edwards is known for his abstract sculptures made from common materials, including scrap iron and barbed wire ... 3 ... Nov ... 26 ... Tuesday with timeless classics on ancient instruments performed by Brad Bennight, harpsichord, and Henning Vater, violin ... Oct....

Jonathan Biss: ‘Performing can be inspiring, or the thing that eats you’

Edit The Guardian 23 Oct 2016
The American pianist on composers and mortality, having two violinist parents, and his lack of coordination in all things not piano-related. @FionaMaddocks ... Life can be short or long, death lingering or sudden ... In contrast, Mozart, who was almost as young, brought an almost naive but profound simplicity to his late works – think of the Clarinet Concerto, or the Clarinet Quintet ... You haven’t stuck to piano music then? ... It was a revelation....

CSO on fire with pianist Emanuel Ax, conductor David Afkham

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 22 Oct 2016
To begin with, there is the sheer glory and impossible beauty of Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No ... The Beethoven concerto is a thing of extraordinary beauty, but the fluidity of Ax’s playing, like his astonishing articulation, is phenomenal ... And the melodic threads of the concerto unspool with impeccable clarity, but also a sense of surprise....

Van Cliburn Competition Finalist Fei-Fei Dong Joins Pacific Symphony (Soka University of America)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Oct 2016
(Source. Soka University of America). Van Cliburn Competition Finalist Fei-Fei Dong Joins Pacific Symphony at Soka Performing Arts Center ... at Soka Performing Arts Center ... Tickets for groups of 10 or more are $39 each ... The program will include Beethoven's Piano Concerto Nos. 1 and 4 ... This season's Sundays at Soka with Pacific Symphony Series will feature Beethoven's five piano concertos, as well as the Triple Concerto ... (noodl. 35940268) ....

Adelphi Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Grammy-Nominated Christopher Lyndon-Gee on November 3 (Adelphi University)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Oct 2016
Pulitzer Prize winner and Adelphi Professor Paul Moravec, who recently celebrated success of his opera The Shining, based on the Stephen King novel at Minnesota Opera, is represented by his lyrical and thoughtful cello concerto Montserrat (inspired by the mountaintop retreat of legendary cellist Pablo Casals), with famed New York cellist Daniel Barrett as soloist....

Young guests Rach the house at Abravanel

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 22 Oct 2016
Music of two decidedly different Russian composers makes up the menu this weekend at Abravanel Hall, where two young guest artists are collaborating with the Utah Symphony in Prokofiev’s relatively little-known Symphony No. 3 and Rachmaninoff’s extremely well-known Piano Concerto No. 3 ... Juraj Valcuha, an up-and-coming 40-year-o... ....

A new 'Scheherazade'

Edit The Buffalo News 22 Oct 2016
CLASSICAL. John Adams, 'Scheherazade 2' performed by violinist Leila Josefowicz and the St. Louis Symphony conducted by David Robertson (Nonesuch). The basic idea of this seems irresistible ... But forget it, John Adams tells us ... So it's an interesting and dramatic postmodern violin concerto but completely without the qualities that made Rimsky-Korsakov as endlessly captivating as Scheherazade's tales ...  .   ....

‘O Mikros, O Megas’ shows SPCO’s ability to leap centuries

Edit Pioneer Press 22 Oct 2016
Last week’s East Coast swing by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra wasn’t just to enlighten audiences about the ensemble’s masterful musicianship ... Related Articles ... violinist Steven Copes, cellist Julie Albers, oboist Kathryn Greenbank and bassoonist Charles Ullery ... It’s a paradoxical blend of orchestral and chamber music that eventually became something like a miniature Haydn violin concerto, with Copes as a both playful and stormy soloist....

Pizarro: Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival celebrates 25 years

Edit The Mercury News 22 Oct 2016
The Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival has come a long way since Fagie Rosen and Burt Epstein started the cultural event with four movies in 1992. The 25th annual edition, which kicks off Thursday, will feature 39 movies and special events taking place over three weeks ... Overture to the Cold War” on Nov ... 30, the San Jose Chamber Orchestra will perform the Krommer Concerto for Two Clarinets with father-son clarinetists ... 29 ... 9....
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