Posted in A Country in the Moon, Alisa Weilerstein, Ballades, Cello Sonata, Chopin Currency, Gabriela Montero, Giuseppe Albanese, Inon Barnatan, Literature, Michael Moran, Poland, Ventura Music Festival, books on May 8th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
A Country In The Moon is a poetic exploration
Metro – London,UK
Echoes of Chopin abound in a new travelogue through post-Communist Poland by an Australian author ‘”honoring a deathbed pledge to his uncle– an eccentric concert pianist…
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Posted in Alex Kobrin, Ballades, Chopin Currency, Dang Thai Son, Fantaisie-Impromptu, Gilmore Festival, Impromptu (movie), Impromptus, Ingrid Fliter, Nocturnes, Richard Goode on Apr 22nd, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
Pianist Born to the Colors of Chopin
New York Times – United States
Veteran New York Times critic Bernard Holland isn’t thrilled about Ingrid Fliter’s Beethoven and Schubert, but is charmed by her Chopin:
The Ingrid Fliter who appeared…
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Posted in Ballades, Chopin Currency, Enrique Granados, George Sand, Jorge Luis Prats, Konstancja Gladowska, Love Life, Marie Wodzinski, Neal Sedaka, Suite101, Waltzes on Apr 21st, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
The master songwriter turns maestro
Sydney Morning Herald – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Legendary (and remarkably durable) hitman Neil Sedaka is poised to “return to his classical roots” Down Under…
Sedaka was an acclaimed junior pianist studying at the Juilliard School…
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Rachmaninoff fails to fill the hall
Arizona Daily Star – Tucson,AZ,USA
Not “news,” but an interesting time capsule from February 1925:
Maybe folks went to the literature club’s discussion of “Modern English Novels” or possibly the talk at the…
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Posted in Ballades, Kay Zavislak on Mar 30th, 2008
The third of Chopin’s four Ballades for the piano has been called “probably the only 19th century ballade with a happy ending (as well as being the only ballade of Chopin’s that ends on a major chord).”
But there’s quite a journey…
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Posted in Ballades, Chopin Currency, Dixie State College, George Sand, Introduction and Polonaise Brillante, Lang Lang, Lowri Blake, Nancy Allred, WordStage Vermont, Yundi Li on Mar 22nd, 2008
Chopin & George Sand
Barre Montpelier Times Argus – Barre,VT,USA
A preview of a WordStage Vermont production of “Frédéric & George,” — “an evening of letters, diaries, and memoirs penned by these two paradoxically matched lovers and some of their intimate circle.”
“Mme. Sand, beware of…
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Posted in Ballades, Cecile Licad, Chopin Currency, Evgenia Rubinova, Fantaisie-Impromptu, Heroic Polonaise, Kurikinton Fox, Lang Lang, Mazurkas, Piano Concertos, Yundi Li, arrangements, fiction on Mar 15th, 2008
Posted in Alexander Kanchaveli, Artur Rubinstein, Ballades, Chopin Currency, Cédric Tiberghien, Markus Groh, Nocturnes, Piano Concertos, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, pattison piano on Feb 20th, 2008
Chopin Reviews & Previews:
Ivan Hewett reviews Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Cédric Tiberghien at …
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
French pianist Cedric Tiberghein receives rave reviews for his Chopin Ballades at his recital at London’s Wigmore Hall; critic is less enamored of his Beethoven…
He glided…
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Posted in Ballades, Chopin Currency, Flavio Varani, Ken Russell, Marc-André Hamelin, Martha Argerich, Piano Sonata No. 2, Piano Sonata No. 3, Richard Goode, dogs on Jan 29th, 2008
Chopin In the News:
Chopin, With Progenitors and Progeny
New York Times – United States
In a brief program note Mr. Goode called the concert “a kind of homage to Chopin.” In practice, this meant surrounding Chopin’s works with music by German …
See…
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Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews
Stark-Iochmans: No flash, but a workmanlike effort
Providence Journal – Providence,RI,USA
Stark-Iochmans turned to Chopin to close out the afternoon, the composer’s Fourth Ballade in F Minor. Again this contained some beautiful playing, …
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In the previous post we discussed an all-time Chopin favorite, the Nocturne in E-flat, Op. 9, No. 2. What then, is left to say about another Chopin classic – this Ballade in G minor?Plenty, it would appear. There’s an extremely technical description…
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