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2022-08-03 15:45:37
VC Young Artist Kevin Zhu recently released an album of chamber music works by Antonin Dvořák, titled The Dvořák Album. Alongside colleagues Matthew Lipman (viola), Jan Vogler (cello), and Juho Pohjonen (piano), Zhu performs Dvořák's dramatic and vibrant Piano Quartet No. 2. Zhu and Vogler are then joined by violinist Chad Hoopes for the […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2019-11-04 18:10:00
[…] that the soloist could do the melodies and the virtuoso well, but failed to string the passages into a coherent story. Tonight’s was a completely different experience, instead of moving from highlight to highlight, the performance took the audience on a compelling journey from start to finish. I do need to analyze the concerto more to catch the Schumann influence, though. Puhjonen acknowledging the orchestra after Grieg's Piano Concerto. The name Pohjonen sounded familiar. He also looked familiar when he came on stage. I was therefore surprised that I had heard him only once, in 2011, at a Mostly Mozart concert. He certainly made a lot of improvement in the intervening eight years. The MM Program Notes described him as “one of the brightest young instrumental talents to emerge from Finland;” today he is “one of today’s most exciting and vibrant instrumentalist.” I have no quarrel […]
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
2019-10-11 19:42:38
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society - Your Choice for Classical Music in Philadelphia Juho Pohjonen is the first artist to offer a debut recital with the Society this season. His October 27 program features repertoire that is rarely heard on our series—music by Rameau and Scriabin. We talked with him recently about these works, his influences as a pianist, and the app he is helping to develop in. The post appeared first on Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.
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Faces of classical music
2019-09-23 19:56:00
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No.7 in F major, Op.59 No.1 – Danish String Quartet
[…] include returns to the Mostly Mozart Festival, UW World Series at Meany Hall in Seattle, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Philadelphia and Buffalo Chamber Music Societies. This season, the Quartet features a richly satisfying array of diverse repertoire which includes both giants of the string quartet canon – Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, and Mozart – with lesser-performed works by Sibelius, Schnittke, and Jörg Widmann. Additionally, the ensemble joins the outstanding Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen to perform the Shostakovich Piano Quintet at Ravinia and the Brahms Piano Quintet at CMS Lincoln Center's residency at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, where they also collaborate with cellist Jakob Koranyi for the Schubert Cello Quintet. Overseas, they tour extensively throughout Europe in their native Denmark, Norway, Germany, Luxembourg, and Holland as well as Australia and the Far East. The Danish String Quartet continues to expand upon their deep affinity for Scandinavian folk music […]
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