Here it is, a major Rachmaninoff Three, which could be classified as an Easter Concerto. A songful, reflective realization of the depths of this work.Here is an appreciative review of the performance above, very appreciative.
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Review: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, St David's Hall, Cardiff.
Peter Collins Strolling through the city centre on our way to this opening concert of the much-anticipated Cardiff Classical Series, it certainly felt like the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness was being ushered in. However, the work at the heart of the concert presented a startling vision...nation.cymru
Here is the live Beethoven Hammerklavier performance from two days ago.More Beethoven from Son up ahead, this upcoming performance of the Beethoven Hammerklavier sonata which will be broadcast on Aug. 17, the site is already prepared for the performance.
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BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Edinburgh International Festival 2023, Pianist Yeol Eum Son
South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son performs Beethoven's great 'Hammerklavier' Sonata.www.bbc.co.uk
A magnificent concert with the TSO and Cho at the keyboard. My wife and I had superb seats at eye level with the pianist and a clear view of his arms and hands.Have just purchased our first TSO tickets since the days of COVID ended.....to hear Seong-Jin Cho perform the Ravel Left-Hand Concerto with the TSO in September conducted by the new music director Gustavo Gimeno, first time hearing him. Tickets are hard to get even for three concerts, there are 100,000 Koreans living in Toronto, automatic sell-out.
Also on the program, the Ravel Rhapsodie Espagnole. Gimeno is a Spanish Ravel conductor of the first order.
This is a difficult ticket to get, there are only a few seats left unsold. The Spanish people must really be impressed with classical music.Next up for Son on October 28 is the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Antonio Pappano, the new music director, one of the best, in Spain.
That chamber series featuring elite musicians, led off by violinist James Ehnes and pianist Yeol Eum Son was a major success.James Ehnes and Yeol Eum Son will be participating in this upcoming summer chamber music festival in Norway with a group of elite musicians. The festival director is Leif Ove Andsnes, a great pianist.
Program < Baroniet Rosendal
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Ehnes and Son will collaborate on the Brahms Violin and Piano Sonata No. 1.
Here is another Canadian violinist with a Canadian pianist performing the same work in 1980.
Latter day Billie Currie from UltravoxClassical composers relied on talent. I like people who can see music and execute. People think the dude waving his hands has something todo with each musicians sheet. Its like claiming the cart is leading the horse.
Elgar was acclaimed as the greatest composer of his time during the immediate pre-WWI period.I can think of several candidates, but unfortunately, none of them is British.
Son also performed the Brahms Piano Trio No. 2 together with James Ehnes on violin and Sheku Kanneh-Mason, another rising star.James Ehnes and Yeol Eum Son will be participating in this upcoming summer chamber music festival in Norway with a group of elite musicians. The festival director is Leif Ove Andsnes, a great pianist.
Program < Baroniet Rosendal
www.baroniet.no
Ehnes and Son will collaborate on the Brahms Violin and Piano Sonata No. 1.
Here is another Canadian violinist with a Canadian pianist performing the same work in 1980.
Just mentioned it above.Name the candidates.
Here are some more movements from that classic 1980 set of Beethoven cello & piano sonatas with Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Ronald Turini, colleagues from Western University.Household music-making was the strata from which chamber music emerged. Here is some more Mozart, in this case an opera aria from Die Zauberflote, arranged for cello and piano by no less than Beethoven himself.
The performers here are colleagues at Western University where I studied, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi cellist and Ronald Turini on the piano. My favourite recording of this work.
Here is another seasonal family video, from our family band in Cornwall.Here is a "family" album. I heard my mother sing in "Belshazzar's Feast" conducted by Robert Shaw in 1964 at Western University. Following the rehearsals for "Belshazzar's Feast" Shaw had suggested to my mother that she pursue solo work, which she declined.
In 1970, I sang in "Chichester Psalms" with the Western music students choir while I was a music student at Western.
Here is Robert Shaw and Co. The tracks follow one another automatically.
Ronald Turini and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi recorded their Beethoven cello/piano set for CBS/Sony, but Turini had earlier recorded for RCA.More from that classic set of Beethoven cello/piano works performed by two professors and colleagues at Western University, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Ronald Turini (not my professor).
Beethoven's unpublished set of variations on Mozart's "Magic Flute" theme of marital love.