Artsopolis - Events Acclaimed for his poetic lyricism and brilliant technique, pianist and fourtimeGrammy-winner emanuel ax is one of today s most highly regarded musicians. http://www.artsopolis.com/index.php?app=eventDetail&id=3869
Extractions: (Posted: 03/21/03 Wisconsin Week: March 26, 2003 Esty Dinur Virtuosi Emanuel Ax, piano, and Richard Stoltzman, clarinet, will close the Wisconsin Union Theater's 83rd Concert Series season with a performance of pieces by Schumann, Brahms, and contemporary composers William Thomas McKinley and Yehudi Wyner. This season's grand finale is at 8 p.m., Thursday, April 10. Renowned for his poetic temperament, virtuosity and the exceptional breadth of his performing activity, Ax is a long-time favorite of Madison audiences. He won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition at age 25, as well as numerous other international competitions and awards since then. Having performed at the Union Theater more than a half-dozen times, Ax has consistently been received with accolades, enthusiasm and affection. Says the Los Angeles Times, "Even the coughing stopped during Emanuel Ax's transcendent performance...a quality of attention rare in any concert at any time seemed to take over the audience...and that mood of deep listening prevailed throughout...this kind of rapport marked every part of this extraordinary performance." Performing with Ax is clarinetist Stoltzman, who the Washington Post describes as "an artist of indescribable genius," the Boston Globe terms "the world's most phenomenal clarinetist" and the San Francisco Chronicle claims is "a national treasure and should be so declared."
WNED Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Aug 4 '02 pianist emanuel ax and Pittsburgh Music Director Mariss Jansons were the two musicalleaders in Brahms most successful attempt at intertwining the solo http://www.jamesweggreview.org/Reviews_Classical/WNED_Pittsburgh_Symphony_Aug_4_
Extractions: Organ Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien Photo: Lois Greenfield PSO Music Director: Mariss Jansons Pianist: Emanuel Ax ELECTRONIC HOMECOMING The unlikely combination of WQED, National Public Radio and a four foot length of wire brought me back to Heinz Hall for Sundays Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. When I took my MFA at Carnegie Mellon University some twenty years back, I was a frequent visitor and great admirer of one of North Americas finest orchestras. Since then, life has taken to me to hundreds of destinations but not, yet, back to the city of Three Rivers (I have also noted that neither the Steelers nor the Pirates have won a championship since my departure!). Also, until Sunday, Id only managed to pick up Buffalos WNED-FM on my car radio, but detailed reading of my receivers manual and then attaching a metre of aerial to the prescribed fastener remedied that. So it was with great anticipation that I flicked on the tuner at eight. In sum it was an enjoyable experience despite the surfacing of a few non-musical distractions. But music first: the natters to follow.
CD REVIEW Brahms Handel Emanuel Ax Click to hear the Theme emanuel ax seems as eager as the I last heard ax some fifteenyears ago where he This recording reveals a pianist who has all the tools http://www.jamesweggreview.org/Reviews_Classical/Brahms_Handel.htm
Extractions: Whatever drew Brahms to Handels eight bars of stately, constrained melody, whose range is limited to an octave and whose notes never stray outside the eight notes of their Bb major home scale, will remain a musicological mystery! But compositionally their very simplicity is ideal for the incredible journey penned by the master variationist of his time. I last heard Ax some fifteen years ago where he tossed off the fiendishly difficult Khachaturian concerto at an American Symphony Conductor (now defunct) under the direction of my mentor Kazuyoshi Akiyama. His mastery of the keyboard was dazzling but at the time he wouldnt have been my first choice for the subtleties and breadth of another piano master. How wrong I can be!
EMANUEL AX AND FRIENDS GO BEHIND THE MUSIC - Briefme.com emanuel ax AND FRIENDS GO BEHIND THE MUSIC. of the Titanic soundtrack but not theSchoenberg Piano Concerto?In a recent panel discussion, pianist Emmanuel ax http://www.briefme.com/archive.php/article/25915
Extractions: Suggest a new site in this Category Site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/najp/or2.htm Is it OK to cough between movements? Is the classical music community an inherently elitist one? And how come everyone has a copy of the "Titanic" soundtrack but not the Schoenberg Piano Concerto?In a recent panel discussion, pianist Emmanuel Ax joined the presidents of several recording labelsincluding Sony Classical, Decca, and Nonesuchto discuss these and other questions in a spirited exchange on the art and commerce of classical music. This Columbia University site provides an elegant transcript of the chat, offering classical music consumers a rare glimpse of insider perspectives on the process of creating, performing, and selling classical music. The unassuming presentation of this site belies the nature of its content, which is often funny and consistently provocative.In short, you'll be a better-informed listener after you read itand hey, it's a lot less demanding than the Schoenberg Piano Concerto. Now if Leo were on a Schoenberg CD cover, well, that might be different. Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:36:38 -0400
Berkshires Week collaboration By Andrew L. Pincus emanuel ax finds teaching protege Orion Weiss rewarding It must have been destiny in 1996 when pianist emanuel ax, who was http://www.berkshiresweek.com/090403/default.asp?id=article03
Extractions: Photo by Clive Barda The Beethoven Broadwood fortepiano grand piano EMI Classics Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor Emanuel Ax, pianist (1851 Erard grand ) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Charles Mackerras, cond. Sony Classics Chopin: Piano Concerto no. 2 in F Minor, Emanuel Ax, pianist (1851 Erard grand ) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Charles Mackerras, cond. Sony Classics The Early Clarinet misc pieces, Malcom Martineau, pianist, with various artists (1825 Broadwood grand piano Clarinet Classics The English Muse Timothy Roberts, pianist with various artists (1816 Broadwood grand piano) Hyperion Glinka:Trio Pathetique, Violin Sonata Olga Tverskaya, pianist, with various artists (Brodmann fortepiano copy by David Winston).
BBC - Radio 3 - John Adams - Rolling Out The Century Its released as the pianist punches out a funky jazz walking bass line. Unusuallyfor a new work, emanuel ax has taken the piece into his repertoire and http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/adams/rolling.shtml
Extractions: Slonimskys Earbox is a splashy orchestral shout that ricochets off the opening bars of Stravinskys symphonic poem The Song of the Nightingale and pays tribute to the larger-than-life Russian musicologist and conductor Nicolas Slonimsky. Adams came to know Slonimsky in the last decade of his long life (he died in 1995 at the age of 101) and was bowled over by the old mans wit, wisdom and charisma. Slonimsky was born in Tsarist Russia and later acted as assistant to the legendary conductor Serge Koussevitzky. He conducted the first performance of Varèses Ionisation in 1933 and also premiered works by Charles Ives and Henry Cowell. His seminal book Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns is an encyclopedic reference work and has had a major impact on Adamss harmonic thinking since the composition of his Chamber Symphony in 1992.
November 12, 1997 November 12, 1997. pianist emanuel ax to Appear at the Middlebury CollegeCenter for the Arts. Praise for pianist emanuel ax. exhilarating http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/pubaff/news_releases/news_1997/ax.htm
Extractions: Ax's career has encompassed many prestigious prizes, performances with every major symphony orchestra from the Boston Symphony to the London Philharmonic Orchestra, countless recitals in the greatest concert halls, and a catalogue of recordings. He also appears regularly at the festivals of Aspen, the BBC Proms, Blossom, Edinburgh, the Hollywood Bowl, Mostly Mozart, Ravinia and Tanglewood. Ax captured public attention in 1974 when, at age 25, he won the First Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975 he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists and four years later, took the coveted Avery Fisher Prize. An RCA recording contract followed, and many of his more than 20 albums became best-sellers and won top honors. In 1987 he became an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist, making his debut on that label with a collection of Chopin scherzos and mazurkas.
News pianist emanuel ax is guest artistic director and soloist for six days of orchestraland chamber music June 26July 2; Peter Oundjian conducts, soprano http://www.philorch.org/styles/poa02e/www/news_20030225a.html
Extractions: Mozart's music has inspired and enriched the lives of scientists, writers, artists, composers, and general listeners the world over. Albert Einstein regarded Mozart as "the greatest composer of all." "The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely 'found' it," Einstein said, "that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed." With its classical balance of both colorful lightness and profound depth, Mozart's music, to many people, conveys a sense of well-being. "Mozart is happiness before it has gotten defined," said playwright Arthur Miller. The Philadelphia Orchestra's 2003 Absolutely Mozart Festival features five evening performances and one afternoon matinee, June 26-July 2, in Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. The three programs feature a range of Mozart's work, from intimate chamber music to symphonic masterpieces. Absolutely Mozart 2003 opens with the Quintet in E-flat major, K. 452, for piano and winds, considered by Mozart himself to be "the best thing" he'd ever written. The first evening's program also features Emanuel Ax performing the Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453, and closes with the Symphony No. 40.
Instrumentalists: Catalog 42 click on to view image. 036. ax, emanuel SP 4 x 6 color shot of the smilingAmerican pianist ..$35 037. http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/instrument42.html
Music: Emanuel Ax Acclaimed for his poetic lyricism and brilliant technique, pianist emanuel ax hasforged a distinguished career filled with prestigious prizes, performances http://ae.bayarea.com/entertainment/ui/bayarea/music.html?id=1350
Small Encomia By Jay Nordlinger emanuel ax is very much like Uchida a solid pianist, largely unobjectionable,but often frustrating, missing the mark of greatness. http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/jan00/nordling.htm
Extractions: by Jay Nordlinger O Impoverished as we are in pianists, there are some interesting and creditable ones on the scene. At Carnegie Hall recently, three of them appeared within two weeks: Mitsuko Uchida, a Japanese pianist, long resident in Europe, who is known particularly for her Mozart; Emanuel Ax, an American, born in Poland, who is admired for his Chopin and chamber playing; and Evgeny Kissin, a former child prodigy, now twenty-nine, from Russia, who is the object of rapture and delirium everywhere. Mitsuko Uchida, decidedly, is not of this tradition; she is a clean, careful, and modest pianist. Uchida offered an unusual program in New York, or rather, she presented it in an unusual order: a Chopin sonata, Webern, Mozart, and, to conclude, a late Schubert sonata. Her Chopin was the B Uchida, however, has a severely limited technique, meaning that she can barely handle much of the mainstream repertory. The Chopin sonata was all but beyond her. She is exceptionally tight in the arms, which restricts her movement and deprives her of fluidity. She appears to sit too close to the keyboard, and her shoulders are hunched. Her entire piano-playing apparatus seems cramped. To be sure, she usually manages to get through difficult passages, but not without awkwardness and strain. H er main problem in the first movement of the Chopin lay in the octaves: she could not coax a singing line out of them. It is easier, of course, to produce such a line with single notes, but Chopin demands that it be done with octaves as well. Uchida did not play those octaves
New York Chronicle By Jay Nordlinger Then came the pianist emanuel ax, for a piece by Debussy his Pagodes. axplayed it decently, but the hero of this performance was Zankel Hall, as it http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/22/nov03/jay.htm
Extractions: by Jay Nordlinger T Bachiana brasileira No. 5, with eight young cellos (players of the cello, that is). Living Toys Babes in Toyland ! But it is not exactly a little charmer. Living Toys has a playful element, to be sure, but it is almost relentlessly cacophonous. It also suffers from some monotony. Still, the Zankel Band played enthusiastically, and the audience showered them with approval. Esa-Pekka Salonen is best known as the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, but he is a determined composer, and this concert offered his Mania T A major. This is one of the most delightsome pieces in the entire chamber repertory, and the Emerson plus Ax did creditably by it. The Finale, however, was a bit heavy, a bit sluggish, and a bit thick-fingered. This movement ought to take flight; these players rather kept it on the ground. D The Creation , for example). The Largo features striking, ghostly modulations; Haydn, as is his wont, finds magic within orderliness. K. 498. This gave Levine a chance to show off his great clarinetist Ricardo Morales, who played with his usual marvelous sound and silky-smooth, ever-flexible technique. Next came a song-cycle by Elliott Carter called In Sleep, in Thunder
Unterschiedliche Ansätze - Emanuel Ax Als Kammermusiker In Der Translate this page emanuel ax als Kammermusiker in der Zürcher Tonhalle. Ein gewaltiges Pensum hatder pianist emanuel ax innerhalb der letzten zehn Tage in Zürich absolviert. http://www.nzz.ch/2002/04/16/fe/page-article83N4D.html
Get Passionate With The Austin Symphony the Austin Symphony Orchestra opens it s new season, 93 Seasons Under One Flag with one of classical music s most revered talents pianist emanuel ax. http://austin.about.com/b/a/020188.htm
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