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2024-03-11 19:45:51
INTERVIEW | Mezzo-Soprano Ema Nikolovska Talks About Her Debut North American Recital Tour, Hitting Toronto March 24
Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska is currently on a recital tour of North America, with pianist Charles-Richard Hamelin for the Canadian dates.
2024-03-11 03:30:00
Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony (CD Review)
by Karl Nehring Marc-André Hamelin, piano; Nathalie Forget, ondes Martenot; Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Gustavo Gimeno, conductor. Harmonia Mundi 905336 Those relatively new to classical music who may be unfamiliar with the Turangalîla Symphony.by the late French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) are in for quite the ear- and mind-expanding experience when they first encounter this expansive, expressive, exhilarating 10-movement, 80-minute piece that is scored for piano, ondes Martenot, and orchestra. Nor may many music lovers reading this review be familiar with the ondes Martenot, an electronic instrument with a sound similar to that of a theremin (more information here ). In general, Messiaen blends the sounds of the ondes Martenot and the piano with the sound of the orchestra rather than featuring either instrument in a concerto-like fashion, even though in concert performance, both instruments take their place in front of the orchestra, as they would for a concerto. There are passages, however, where Hamelin, one of […]
2024-02-12 04:30:00
Marc-André Hamelin: New Works for Piano (CD Review)
by Karl NehringHamelin: Variations on a Theme of Paganini; My Feelings about Chocolate; Suite a l'ancienne (Suite in Old Form); Barcarolle; Variation diabellique sur des themes de Beethoven; Pavane variee; Chaconne; Meditation on Laura; Toccata on “L'homme armé”. Marc-André Hamelin, piano. Hyperion CDA68308 Canadian pianist and composer Marc-André Hamelin (b. 1961) is widely known both for his technical prowess and his willingness to perform and record music outside the classical keyboard mainstream. We have previously reviewed a couple of excellent releases that featured him as a performer. The first was of works from quite a ways out of the classical mainstream, the piano rags of the American composer William Bolcom (b.1938), a review that can be found here. The second CD featured Hamelin playing some piano music of a composer who, although his name is more familiar to most classical music fans, his piano music is still pretty much out of the classical piano music mainstream: the French composer Gabriel Fauré (1825-1924). Our […]
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
[…] where there is the convention that if you perform a concerto it is preceded by an overture and followed by a symphony. Sometimes the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra's own concerts break this format, but that can be tricky. With Le Piano Symphonique, Numa feels they have started to explore new areas and he points to the final evening concert in 2024 which moved from Liszt's Totentanz for piano and orchestra, to the premiere of Marc André Hamelin's piano solo Hexensabbat to Schubert's Die Winterreise to Bach to Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1 and Ravel's La Valse on two pianos. All in the space of an evening, and encompassing six pianists (plus orchestra). If all this seems lavish, then Numa also emphasises that the festival is fully privately funded.The festival is a distinct brand run by the orchestra alongside its regular subscription season and its significant education activities, so there is a sense that […]
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