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2024-01-27 09:59:00
A winter week focusing on the piano yet hosted by an orchestra: intendant Numa Bischof Ullmann introduces Lucerne's Le Piano Symphonique & looks forward to the 2025 festival
[…] with an increasing international audience too along with developing Swiss French and Swiss Italian audiences (and Swiss Italian radio was recording part of this year's festival). In three years, the festival have been able to establish the brand and create a national week for the piano in Switzerland rather than just another festival.KKL, Luzern (Photo: KKL, Luzern)Whilst repertoire focuses very much on the piano classics, there are new discoveries alongside these (such as last year's Paderewski Piano Concerto, see my review) and new commissions. And Numa points out that he is not afraid of running out of repertoire, just look at Haydn, Scarlatti, Chopin or Liszt's keyboard works. He adds that he is not a completist, and would love to be able to include Alkan, Hahn, Faure, Pierné and so on. But they want to balance the known and the unknown, however they have no obligations or quotas, no strict […]
2024-01-18 14:33:00
From poetic Liszt and Grieg concertos to a little bit of magic from Martha Argerich and friends at Le Piano Symphonique in Lucerne
[…] Leonskaja. The festival continues its innovative exploration of concert programming, so the second half of the evening then moved to piano trios, with Martha Argerich joined by cellist Mischa Maisky and violinist Janine Jansen for Haydn's Piano Trio in G major, 'Gypsy Rondo' and Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor.Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Yoav Levanon (Photo: Philipp Schmidli, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester)Yoav Levanon was the soloist last year in the festival's performance of the Paderewski Piano Concerto [see my review], and he has returned this year to perform both Liszt concertos as well as the Totentanz and then the performances will be recorded for Warner Classics next week. Levanon is something of a youthful wonder, still only nineteen and looking not unlike the young Liszt (and he is the age Liszt was when the composer started work on his concerto).The concerto's opening gesture began in uncompromising fashion, but this quickly evaporated […]
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2022-11-23 14:11:07
Poland’s Paderewski Piano Competition Announces 2022 Winners
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