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2022-02-05 06:31:00
Five Premieres at Peoples' Symphony ConcertsPeople’s Symphony Concerts’ resident artist, pianist Shai Wosner, premieres works by Derek Bermel, Anthony Cheung, John Harbison, Vijay Iyer, and Wang Lu to be heard with Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations on February 19 recital.Peoples' Symphony Concerts' Resident Artist pianist Shai Wosner will premiere a suite of five short works--"Variations on a Theme of FDR"--President Roosevelt's declaration that "we are all immigrants."--commissioned for him by the venerable series, which offers world-class in-person and virtual concerts to New Yorkers on a limited budget for affordable prices.The new suite, composed by Derek Bermel, Anthony Cheung, John Harbison, Vijay Iyer, and Wang Luto, will be paired with perhaps the most famous and challenging set of variations, Beethoven's 33 Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120 on February 19 at 7:30 PM at Washington Irving High School.Single tickets are $ 17. A series ticket for as little as $ 48 […]
2021-10-19 21:43:04
Mozart’s Piano Quartet K493 is a far more mellow and melodious work with, in the first movement, a similar relaxed grandeur of his recently composed E flat Piano Concerto, K482. As in the Mozart piano concertos, the first movement has a profusion of lyrical themes, which expand and proliferate at leisure. Most pervasive and influential is the theme that establishes the dominant key, B flat, initiated by the piano and immediately echoed by the violin. The A flat Larghetto, is in full sonata form, and it has an impassioned development that begins with a dramatic re-interpretation of the opening phrase.
2017-06-10 00:14:01
[…] party scowled for a feed. Ironically, the lavish home was enlisted for a shoot in Alfred Hitchcock’s film, The Birds with Tippi Hedren, which added a hauntingly perfect cloaking of our ensemble. Immersed in eerie tremolos and diminished harmonies, we were at one, in an ebb and flow of undulating phrases. … such a musical encounter nicely flowed into a few more chamber music opportunities that interspersed my solo repertoire studies. I played the Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478 at the 92nd Street Y, coached by Yuval Waldman while my unreliable page turner snored through the Development section. Randomly occurring misfortunes such as these inspire pianists to draw on a repository of thorough preparation and increased Mindfulness. Singular focus and sensitive interplay among players also apply to performing a Mozart piano Concerto which is the epitome of a chamber music framing. I was […]
2017-03-05 17:23:00
Pierre Boulez Saal opening concert : Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen
The Opening Concert of the Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin's new hall for chamber recitals. Daniel Barenboim did the honours in the Mozart Piano Quartet KV 493, with his son, Michael, the violinist, beside him. No way would a concert as significant as this have been complete without a star like Barenboim. The invisible star, nonetheless was Pierre Boulez, for whom the hall is named. Fittingly, the concert began and ended with Boulez: Initiale initiating proceedings, with Sur Incises as the grand highlight. Both pieces also demonstrated the acoustic and flexibility of this new hall. It's more than a recital hall, since it can be adapted for larger ensembles and even, potentially, for chamber opera. Seating seems generous, so backstage facilities might also be of the same high standard. Coffin-shaped concert halls are dead. London, wake up! Barenboim will also be […]