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Extractions: Main Page See live article Alphabetical index A pianist is a person who plays the piano A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an orchestra or smaller ensemble , or accompany one or more singers or solo instrumentalists. A performing classical pianist usually starts playing piano at a very young age, some as early as three years old. Many well-known classical composers were able pianists themselves; for example, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Liszt Frederic Chopin ... Robert Schumann , and Sergei Rachmaninov were all virtuoso pianists. Some pianists have special preferences as to which composer's music they play. Most western forms of music can make use of the piano. Consequently, pianists have a wide variety of forms and styles to choose from, including jazz classical music , and all sorts of popular music Well-known or influential classical pianists: Martha Argerich Claudio Arrau Vladimir Ashkenazy Gina Bachauer Wilhelm Backhaus Daniel Barenboim Simon Barere Bart Berman Boris Berman Idil Biret Jorge Bolet Alfred Brendel Bruno Canino Robert Casadesus Shura Cherkassky Dino Ciani Aldo Ciccolini Van Cliburn Harriet Cohen Jean-Philippe Collard Alfred Cortot Clifford Curzon Bella Davidovich Alicia de Larrocha Vasso Devetsi Peter Donohoe Barry Douglas Hans Eijsackers Vladimir Feltsmann Annie Fischer Edwin Fischer Leon Fleischer Walter Gieseking Emil Gilels Jacob Gimpel Katrine Gislinge Misha Goldstein Richard Goode Glenn Gould Lola Graham Gary Graffman
Extractions: He's been described as " one of those artists who changes, for those who listen to [him], the course of their lives." Since his astounding debut at Wigmore Hall in the early 1960s, pianist Stephen Kovacevich's poetic playing has had a transformative effect on thousands of listeners. Particularly renowned for his radical interpretations of classical repertoire and his award-winning recordings, this distinguished artist is featured prominently in Philips' "Great Pianists of the 20th Century" series. "There was a moment of emotion so intense that the hall was plunged into an almost palpable state of trance." - Le Monde Beethoven Sonata in D minor ("Tempest"), Op.31, no.2 Sonata in A major, Op.101
Extractions: Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas stand as one of the great testaments in western art. Composed in Vienna over a thirty-year period between 1793 and 1822, these works represent the composer's spiritual journey as well as an ever-developing craft. They transform the genre from the Classical realm of the beautiful (represented by Haydn and Mozart) to the new Romantic realm of the sublime. When in 1792, as a twenty-one-year-old, Beethoven arrived in Vienna from Bonn, he quickly made his mark as a pianist of remarkable expressive range. Witness the following report of his improvising in the early 1790s: Beethoven did not deny his tendency towards the mysterious and the gloomy. What once he began to revel in the infinite world of tones, he was transported above all earthly things; his spirit had burst all restricting bonds, shaken off the yoke of servitude, and soared trumphantly and jubilantly into the luminous spaces of the higher ether. Beethoven's will to triumph over fate and ultimately to transcend suffering represents a human achievement of the highest order. He accomplished this in music without words - instrumental music of increased complexity and intensified expression - "a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy" (in words attributed to him in 1810). It is music unafraid of finding connection in extremes - "the moral law within us and the starry sky above us" (in the famous misquotation of Kant in Beethoven's Conversation Book of 1820).
Extractions: A large audience was privileged to eavesdrop upon Stephen Kovacevich , renowned Beethoven specialist, taking well equipped students through passages in Beethoven sonatas. His manner was gentle and kindly, but searching and demanding. He put his 'victims' at ease by establishing whether each felt nervous or confident, and made them think and articulate their aims in dialogue with him - "tell me what you might not have liked in how you played that?" - before suggesting his own preferred solutions and persuading them to try it differently, but leaving final choices to them. In an absorbing one and a half hour session without pause he explored the Appassionata with an Israeli student from the Royal Academy of Music in London (Inon Barnatan) and Op. 109 with a Japanese graduate of the capital's Royal College of Music (Mami Shikimori). Both were technically assured and knew the music so well that they could take up at will at any point as required - "we can work on a certain level" he assured them, and both responded well, changing articulation and tone easily (it is essential for master class candidates not to over-learn their pieces, so that they retain flexibility and are not so wedded to their settled way with the music as to be unable to experiment with new ideas). He wanted 'more sound' in the Appassionata's ff , finding the player at first 'too considerate, too musical'! The student explained that he was worried about being 'too aggressive'. There was detailed discussion of tempi.
Extractions: Amazon recommendations I am old enough to remember this first being issued back thirty years ago. Always a premium priced LP it has taken many years for this classic, clean and unglitzy coupling to come my way. Its memorability is tied up not only in a refusal to glamourise but also in its rare use of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra show themselves in a highly desirable light aided by an ADD recording that clarifies and lays clear and clean all the instrumental lines. The piano sound is simply wonderful, pellucid runs presented just so and triple fortes gripping. Kovacevich's timing and tension building and release are something to behold or behear! The urgency that trims and scatters the sparks in the Allegro moderato finale and the quiet horn growls at 0.22 are simply isolated examples of detail registering deliciously and being pointed with style. The Schumann's virtues are similar and certainly makes for memorable listening. Listen to the Mozartian balletic delicacy of the 1.21 of the
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Extractions: Stephen Kovacevich Stephen Kovacevich is a classical pianist with a radical style and rare humor that make his recordings of Beethoven's Bagatelles better and truer to the spirit of the works than any other performer's I have heard. His sensitivity and timing can also be felt and appreciated in listening to his recordings of works by Schubert. I am no expert on classical music, but I know when I hear a great artist, and Kovacevich is one of the best ever, in any genre. Kovacevich now records exclusively for EMI, but the Bagatelles were recorded for Phillips, in 1975. They are very much worth the time it might take to locate the disc. To learn more about Stephen Kovacevich, visit his official online biography at EMI.
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Extractions: I Stephen Kovacevich Kovacevich Kovacevich Kovacevich Hans tolkninger av klassikerne bygger seg opp mot det som er det virkelig pianistiske sjokket: Bela Bartoks Out of Doors Avec tambours et fifres Om du ikke blir rystet, blir du i hver fall fjetret over denne pianistiske galskapen hos Bartok som Kovacevich Kovacevich Kovacevich Kovacevich Summary in English Go also to: Our article about the first release of Stephen Kovacevich in this series. Pianists_Kovacevich.html#English On his second album we meet an artist living in the centre of today's musical life. The performance of Rodney Bennett's Piano Concerto - dedicated to and first performed by Kovacevich - is the main attraction on these two CD's, a work full of Bartok'ian vividness. It leads directly into an interpretation of Bartok's second concerto - and you can easily see the connections between the two composers. On the same CD we hear a version of Stravinsky's Concerto for Winds and Piano. Here we have Kovacevich, right in the centre of today'd musical life. Even if he also performs Beethoven, Chopin and Brahms on this compilation, it is his playing of Bartok's Out of Doors that makes the most powerful impressions: wild, direct, provocing and no 'taste-of-salon'. Here we see the connections between his Beethoven - the composer the occupies Kovacevich more than anyone else - and this century's Bartok and Bennett.
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Extractions: Martha Argerich I Martha Argerich II ... Van Cliburn Stephen Kovacevich Lev Schorr Stephen Kovacevich 1959 London og ble en av de "utvalgte" stipendiater hos pianistinnen Dame Myra Hess . Her kunne Stephen Kovacevich tilegne seg alt fra en som han senere har kalt "a virtuoso in sound" I 1961 - ved sin sensasjonelle debut i Wigmore Hall i London - skapte Stephen Kovacevich furore da han spilte A. Bergs sonate, tre Bach-preludier og fuger samt Beethovens " Diabelli Stephen Kovacevich Dette var ikke noe lettvekterprogram, og Stephen Kovacevich viste tydelig at han var heller ingen lettvekterpianist. Senere gjentok Stephen Kovacevich suksessen med " Diabelli "-variasjonene i Royal Festival Hall, og atter en gang etterlot han et uutslettelig inntrykk som kunstner. Stephen Kovacevich Los Angeles Philharmonic i Hollywood Bowl, da han dirigerte to Mozart-programmer fra klaveret.
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Extractions: STEPHEN MONTAGUE Stephen Montague was born in 1943. He studied at Florida and Ohio State Universities, won a Fulbright Scholarship to work in Warsaw and since 1975 he has worked as a freelance composer based in London and touring world-wide. As a pianist he has performed at numerous international festivals and his duo Montague/Mead Piano Plus (formed 1985 with pianist Philip Mead) has toured and recorded throughout Europe, Scandinavia and North America. He also collaborates with sculptor Maurice Agis, creating electronic sound environments for Agis's giant inflatable sculptures Colourspace and Dreamspace. He has a busy schedule of composing, touring and teaching. He was Associate Composer with the Orchestra of St John's Smith Square, London, for the 1995-96 and 1996-97 seasons and was recently a featured composer at the Time of Music Festival (Vitasaari, Finland). For the 1997 BT Celebration Series Montague wrote a large piece for narrator and orchestra, which was premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre and went on to receive 14 further performances throughout the UK by other leading British orchestras. The work, entitled
Extractions: Pianist Kovacevich returns after 33-year absence By Robert Jordan When Stephen Kovacevich walks onstage at the Playhouse on Sunday (Feb. 18), audience members with a better memory for faces than names may feel a sense of déjà vu. Understandably, their memories might be a tad hazy because its been more than 30 years since the American pianists last Vancouver appearance. Even then, the man who played Ludwig van Beethovens "Piano Concerto No. 4" with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in March 1968 was named Stephen Bishop. "My mother married for a second time a doctor named Bishop though I wasnt adopted," Kovacevich explains over the phone from his home in London, England. "Then, much later, I decided, via the cumbersome Bishop-Kovacevich, to go back to my own name." Born in San Pedro, California in 1940, Kovacevich grew up in Berkeley, where, at the age of eight, he began studies with Lev Shorr. This Russian pianists great virtues were his sense of drive and rhythm, meticulousness and expansive command of Russian virtuoso piano literature. Kovacevich thrived under Shorrs tutelage, making his debut with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra six years later. But he still did not feel complete as a pianist. So, in 1959, he moved to London to study with the leading English pianist and pedagogue Dame Myra Hess. "Aside from the totally different repertoire, she awoke the whole drama and passion of the classical repertoire for me," says Kovacevich. "It was a combination of variety of sound and character of the music. She was profound and stimulating and, in terms of pianism, opened up in me a variety of sound that I hadnt had before." It was also the time that Kovacevich became seriously interested in the music of Beethoven, repertoire in which Hess was renowned.
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