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Musicians On The Corporate Scrapheap THERE is a new Rachmaninov recording out this month by the Russian pianist nikolai lugansky, a protege of the unforgettable Tatyana Nikolayeva. http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/011003-NL-scrapheap.html
Extractions: Web Search The Lebrecht Weekly Visit every week to read Norman Lebrecht's latest column. [Index] Musicians on the corporate scrapheap By Norman Lebrecht / October 3, 2001 THERE is a new Rachmaninov recording out this month by the Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky, a protege of the unforgettable Tatyana Nikolayeva. It is his second recital disc, the first having met with high praise. It may also be his last, since Lugansky, 27, is among the many artists who are losing their contracts in the latest spasmodic contraction of a dying record industry. Lugansky had the misfortune of being signed to Warner, which lashed out vast sums a decade ago to acquire the Erato and Teldec labels in France and Germany. It is now ruthlessly shutting them down. The only comfort for the young Russian is that he is in great company. Joining him on the scrapheap of corporate folly are, I hear, the lustrous American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, the rising Italian soprano Barbara Frittoli, the effulgent Argentine tenor Jose Cura and the conductor Daniel Barenboim, whose contract with Warner has ended and will not be renewed. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which Barenboim leads, is left without a record outlet for the first time in memory. Last weekend it also lost its nationally syndicated radio broadcast, apparently for want of sponsorship. Where Solti once ruled, silence now reigns.
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Extractions: John Ogdon (1937 - 1989) featured as " Artist of the Week " February 2nd 2004 The John Ogdon Prize Winner Announced 27th April 2004 Application Form and Notes Press Release 2004 Annual Piano Prize - Winner Martin Sturfalt.... Martin Sturfalt - 2004 Prize Winner "To win the John Ogdon Prize is first of all a great honour to me as a pianist. The award will mean a lot to me as it will enable me to stay in London for another year and have the opportunity to continue studying at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama at the same time as keeping up my contacts in Sweden and elsewhere." Martin Sturfalt, congratulated by Jury Panel Chairman, Sir Ernest Hall, OBE DL [Biography] [Piano Prize Finalists 2004 Photographs] The Winning Repertoire Overture from French Overture BWV831 J S Bach Impromptu in G-flat Major op.90 F Schubert (D.899) no. 3, Andante Etudes-tableaux op. 39 no. 2 in A Minor S Rachmaninov Lento assai and no. 9 in D Major Allegro moderato, tempo di marcia
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Extractions: Rahkmaninovs tredje klaverkonsert med Oslo-filharmonien og Leif Ove Andsnes Oslo-filharmoniens konsert-innspilling av Ildfuglen og Eulenspiegel Det knyttet seg store - kanskje for store - forventninger til Mikhail Pletnev s debutopptreden med Oslo-filharmonien nye Det er hans innsats som leder og stifter av Det Russiske Nasjonalorkester som er grunnen til dette. Orkesteret oppsto i det gamle Sovjetunionens siste dager med aktiv hjelp av Gorbatsjov Fischer har gjort med sitt Budapest-orkester. Gergiev Kirov-ensembel . Det er i dag Russlands fremste symfoniorkester. Pletnev Pletnev Derimot opplevde vi en fantastisk oppvisning i Nikolai Lugansky Lugansky Leif Ove Andsnes presterte forrige gang konserten ble spilt i Oslo, i 1995 med det Lugansky Konserten gis i Sandefjord 11.12. Kjell Moe
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Extractions: Most of the Italian composers of the Nineteenth century were taught the tradition of sacred music from childhood. Although most chose to concentrate on opera for their mature compositions, Rossini (and Verdi, obviously) still had a love and longing to express himself musically on that which he was raised on. Thus we have the Stabat Mater, a glorious work that while, sacred in intention, is so filled with the orchestration and melody that Rossini gave to all his operatic compositions that any of the individual movements or arias could easily have been integrated into any of his operas. Joshua Bell - "Romance of the Violin" = PUCCINI: O Mio Babbino Caro/DEBUSSY: Girl With the Flaxen Hair/CHOPIN: Nocturne in C# Minor/SAINT-SAENS: The Swan/SCHUBERT: Staenchen/BELLINI: Casta Diva/MOZART: andante from Piano Concerto No. 21/GLUCK: Dance of the blessed Spirits/BORODIN: Nocturne/DVORAK: Songs My Mother Taught Me/MONTEVERDI: Pur Ti Miro/MASSENET: Elegie/SCHUMANN: Traumerie - Joshua Bell, violin/Michael Stern conducts Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Sony SK 87894 51:35: After one of his concert appearances in Atlanta, I briefly spoke to Joshua Bell, suggesting he depart from standard violin fare and look at the unplayed Concerto in D by Reynaldo Hahn or perhaps the Martinu Concerto. He does sport a wonderful violin tone, and several of his chamber music inscriptions, like those he did for Musical Heritage Society, are of enduring, musical value. But when this disc arrived, some fifty-minutes-plus of musical saccharine packaged as high-art encores, I really felt my hackles rise. Maybe yuppies looking to get lucky on a romantic evening will treasure these morsels and opera-aria transcriptions, but please don't invite me over. To be trapped in an elevator with classical mus-ack is only a slippery step from my feelings about rap music. Keep the cellophane on this one.
»»Chopin Music Reviews«« Splendid Interpretation of Chopin by a Gifted Young pianist. This wonderful two by Elektra/Asylum (01 August, 2000). Artist Fryderyk Chopin and nikolai lugansky. http://www.megamusicreviews.com/Opera_and_Vocal/Opera_Featured_Composers_A-Z/Cho
Extractions: More Pages: Chopin Page 1 Music reviews for "Chopin" sorted by average review score: Chopin: Mazurkas (Complete); Polonaises Released in Audio CD by Sony (18 November, 1997) Amazon base price: Artist: Fryderyk Chopin Tracks: Four Mazurkas, Op. 6: No. 1 In F-Sharp Minor Four Mazurkas, Op. 6: No. 2 In C Sharp Minor Four Mazurkas, Op. 6: No. 3 In E Major - Vivace Four Mazurkas, Op. 6: No. 4 In E Flat Minor - Presto ma non troppo Five Mazurkas, Op. 7: No. 1 In B Flat Major - Vivace Five Mazurkas, Op. 7: No. 2 In A Minor - Vivo ma non troppo Five Mazurkas, Op. 7: No. 3 In F Minor Five Mazurkas, Op. 7: No. 4 In A Flat Major - Presto ma non troppo Five Mazurkas, Op. 7: No. 5 In C Major - Vivo Four Mazurkas, Op. 17: No. 1 In B Flat Major - Vivo e risoluto Four Mazurkas, Op. 17: No. 2 In E Minor - Lento ma non troppo Four Mazurkas, Op. 17: No. 3 In A Flat Major - Legato assai Four Mazurkas, Op. 17: No. 4 In A Minor - Lento ma non troppo Four Mazurkas, Op. 24: No. 1 In G Minor - Lento Four Mazurkas, Op. 24: No. 2 In C Major - Allegro non troppo
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S A N | F R A N C I S C O | C L A S S I C A L | V O I C E Griegs Aminor Piano Concerto, with the young Russian pianist nikolai lugansky as soloist, followed the Boulez on the first half. http://www.sfcv.org/arts_revs/sfsym_10_13_98.html
Extractions: By Michelle Dulak Concertgoers unsympathetic to new music often complain of programs that slip an unfamiliar new work in among a collection of beloved old favorites. There is a suspicion that the musicians are presuming to tell the audience whats good for it, forcing it to swallow the new piece as the price of the assured pleasures of the old ones. I doubt that the San Francisco Symphonys oddly unfocused program of Friday evening was designed with any such pedagogical intent, but in the event, it was about as good an argument for the practice as could be made. The music-lover who knows Pierre Boulez only by reputation likely has a picture of a fearsome and cold figure, an autocrat and a dogmatist, whose icily controlled conducting persona is mirrored in his abstruse and formidably complex music. The overwhelming impression produced by the Symphonys performance of Boulezs four "Notations for Orchestra," though, was of the opulence and even sensuality of his orchestration. The dominant theme of the two slow pieces was resonancean enveloping cloud of sound that had its source in the enormous battery of tuned percussion and the three harps, but worked its way out somehow into the strings and winds. The orchestra seemed not a collection of individual players or even sections, but a single, slowly shifting, multicolored object. The fast movements, placed second and fourth, were very different in character but equally vivid, their jagged, rhythmically irregular lines careening through the orchestra with ferocious energy. Guest conductor Sylvain Cambreling led the slow pieces with delicacy, the fast ones with a bizarre and disturbing jerkiness of gesture that, from the audience perspective, provided a grotesquely appropriate visual counterpart to the music, but cannot have been terribly helpful to the orchestra. Be that as it may, the performance was thrilling, timbrally exquisite in the slow music and tight in ensemble in the rhythmically demanding second and fourth pieces.
Living - The Cincinnati Post Distinguished pianist Richard Goode astonishingly, never heard at the CSO Hall newcomers include pianists Yundi Li, Stewart Goodyear and nikolai lugansky. http://www.cincypost.com/2003/03/16/cso03-16-2003.html
Extractions: The Cincinnati Symphony is becoming Paavo Jarvi's orchestra. The Estonian born music director's imprint can be seen clearly on the CSO's 2003-04 Music Hall season. Overall, his theme is balance, a careful mix of traditional and less familiar works, and of emerging and established artists. Audiences can bask in the great classics like Brahms Symphony No. 1, Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 and no less than three symphonies by Mozart (Nos. 35, 38 and 40). By contrast, there are 19 works never performed by the CSO at Music Hall. Ordinarily, repertoire is allowed to lie fallow for two or three seasons before being repeated. Springing up again next season are Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 (heard during Jarvi's first season in 2001), Berlioz' "Symphonie fantastique" (featured on his first concert as music director designate in October 2000) and Nielsen's Symphony No. 5 (performed last September). Jarvi's reasoning is twofold, he said. "I feel what we need to do with this orchestra is not only do something successfully once, but use that and build. What I hope to do is try to create a certain core repertoire for the orchestra."
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Extractions: Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov, a hot property right now, returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music with "Ainadamar," (Oct. 28-Nov. 2) a new chamber opera on a Lorca-inspired libretto written by playwright David Henry Hwang. The performance will be conducted by Peruvian maestro Miguel Harth-Bedoya, and feature soprano Dawn Upshaw and an ensemble and chorus from the Tanglewood Music Center. Additional highlights include "The New Yorkers" a multimedia production by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe and featuring cabaret singer Theo Bleckmann, the Michael Gordon Band, and string quartet Ethel. The Kirov Orchestra led by the ubiquitous and indefatigable Valery Gergiev gets things started in the main hall with three concerts rich in Russian masterworks. Recital highlights include baritone Thomas Quastoff in a program of lieder by Schumann and Schubert (Oct 11) and pianist Lang Lang making his Carnegie Hall recital debut (Nov. 7). Among the orchestral performances, James Levine and the Met Orchestra present works by Berlioz and Brahms with pianist Evegeny Kissin (Oct 12); Bernard Haitink leads the Boston Symphony in a concert version of Debussy's Pealleas et Melisande (Oct. 20); and the Berlin Philharmonic arrives for three concerts under the baton of Simon Rattle (Nov. 12-14). (See below for Zankel Hall highlights.)
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Extractions: About to buy a new CD? Looking for the perfect version of your favorite composition? Listen to What's New on Sunday from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. to hear new music and choose the best selections to help build your music collection. What's New is a weekly two hour-long classical music CD review program produced by WNPR. The program includes hosts Ken Jacobson, Warren Francis, and Coleman Casey discussing, critiquing and recommending the latest in new classical music recordings. May 30, 2004 It's a program of discoveries this week, including "Verdi Discoveries" , a CD of unknown works by the Italian composer, overseen by Riccardo Chailly; Albany Records releases the latest volumes in its series of the music of Charles Wuorinen and Edward Joseph Collins ; Violinist Jennifer Koh plays "Trinity" by jazz great Ornette Coleman; tenor Paul Sperry sings "Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House" from his CD of New American Song Cycles; plus, chamber music of Jorge Liderman
Extractions: ebenfalls erhältlich Wie einst Brahms von Schumann, so wurde auch Nikolai Lugansky mit dem Bann belegt, er wäre "der nächste", "der kommende Pianist". Die Prophezeiung stammt von seiner Lehrerin Tatjana Nikolajewa - und tatsächlich: Lugansky gilt heute vielen als Erbe der großen russischen Klaviertradition. Seine bisherigen vier CDs wurden mehrfach ausgezeichnet, unter anderem dreimal mit dem renommierten "Diapason D'Or" und dem Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Auf seiner neuesten Veröffentlichung spielt Lugansky nun Prokofjev. Die sechste Klaviersonate - als erste der drei "Kriegssonaten" 1939 entstanden - ist eines der persönlichsten und tiefgründigsten Werke des Komponisten. Daneben sind die Klaviersonate Nr. 4 und die Klavierfassung der Orchestersuite "Romeo und Julia" zu hören.
