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Mike Wheeler is impressed by Grieg and Chopin from British pianist Alexander Ullman
2024-01-28 09:14:00
From Classical to Romantic: I chat to Michael Sanderling about the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra & Le Piano Symphonique festival
Wagner: Götterdämmerung suite - Michael Sanderling, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra - Le Piano Symphonique, Lucerne 2024 (Photo: Philipp Schmidli)Michael Sanderling is the current chief conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, responsible not only for the orchestra's regular season at KKL Lucerne but for conducting the orchestra in concerts at the orchestra's Le Piano Symphonique festival. [see my interview with the festival's intendant, Numa Bischof Ullman]. This year, the orchestra was accompanying the Liszt cycle (the two piano concertos and Totentanz with pianist Yoav Levanon) and Grieg's Piano Concerto (with pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja), but alongside the performance of Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 the orchestra was also playing Michael Sanderling's suite from Wagner's Gotterdammerung.My chat with Michael Sanderling too place at a busy time, fitted in amongst his conducting and rehearsal commitments during the festival, as well as the planning for the recording sessions the following week.Michael comments that if you have an […]
2022-07-04 04:44:09
Review: Liszt – Piano Concertos, Sonata – Alexander Ullman, BBC Symphony, Litton
2017 Liszt Competition winner Alexander Ullman delivers an ambitious all-Liszt program featuring the B minor Sonata and piano concertos with the BBC symphony under Andrew Litton. The post first appeared on The Classic Review.
2022-04-26 00:49:06
The San Diego Union-Tribune: Review: A refreshing La Jolla Symphony & Chorus program featuring Florence Price and Jennifer Higdon
[…] by two American women: Florence Price (dead but African American) and Jennifer Higdon (White but very much alive). As recently as 14 years ago, Price’s music was neglected by everyone except scholars and performers specializing in African American music. The 2009 discovery of dozens of her unpublished manuscripts in a ramshackle Illinois house led to the most extraordinary revival of a composer’s music since the 1990s re-examination of Viktor Ullman, Pavel Haas or Erwin Schulhoff. Price’s Symphony No. 1 in E minor was her first orchestral work. It won a composition contest, which led to a performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. Her accomplishment cannot be denied: it was the first symphony by an African American woman to be performed by a major orchestra. The pentatonic melodies and syncopated rhythms found within are […]
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