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2021-05-24 07:03:53
The chance to hear instruments from Chopin's time alongside modern pianos at Third Chopin Festival Hamburg
Hubert Rutkowski, artistic director of the Chopin Festival Hamburg, with the 1847 Pleyel piano being used at the festival The Third Chopin Festival Hamburg is taking place from 11 to 13 June 2021, and for the first time the festival will be live-streamed which means that all five concerts can be seen anywhere in the world, free of charge. The festival places its artistic focus not just on Chopin but on on the comparison of the sound worlds of modern and historical keyboard instruments. This year's festival comes from the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg and the museum has provided the historic instruments used in the festival. This means that alongside modern pianos we get to hear two pianos from Chopin's time, an 1880 Érard, and an 1847 Pleyel plus a 1728 Zell harpsichord. The second concert will offer a direct comparison of the sound worlds of a historic and a […]
2016-12-07 07:00:30
Classical music: Madison Area Concert Handbells (MACH) turns 20 and will give three performances of “Bells of Christmas” this coming weekend. Plus, there is a FREE concert of women composers on Friday at noon and a FREE community string quartet concert on Thursday night
[…] on tunes by Louis Bourgeois and George Frideric Handel, also arranged by Cynthia Dobrinski. Next, her arrangement of “On Christmas Night All Children Sing” (Sussex Carol) brings us to a light-hearted celebration of the holiday as seen through the eyes of children. Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky’s famed “Nutcracker Suite” is then represented as our MACH ringers present a challenging, full-bodied arrangement of its March as transcribed by noted handbell composer William Griffin. Former MACH member, Janet Rutkowski, returns as handbell soloist for “The Tin Soldier,” an amusing rendition of that well-known tune. Then the ever-popular “Up on the Housetop” details the gifts children anticipate at Christmas and depicts Santa’s arrival, descent of the chimney, and filling of stockings before he departs in a flash of sound. Our concert concludes with a joyful, foot-stomping “Caroler’s Hoedown,” created and arranged by Valerie Stephenson, who received her graduate degree in composition from the University […]
2015-09-03 19:00:14
Hubert Rutkowski (Piano Classics)The real star here is the piano on which Hubert Rutkowski has recorded these early pieces by Debussy. It’s a superbly maintained 1880 Érard, the model that was generally used for recitals in France at that time, and which was standard issue at the Paris Conservatoire when Debussy was studying there between 1872 and 1884. This, then, is precisely the instrument with which Debussy grew up, and began to imagine his utterly distinctive sound world for the piano. Each register has its own distinctive character, all of them defined by their clarity; there’s no trace of muddiness, and the slenderest pianissimo carries effortlessly. Rutkowski’s performances certainly make the most of these tonal possibilities, even if his playing is sometimes rather strait-laced and rhythmically stiff. Though the first of the arabesques was composed in 1888, most of the pieces in this collection date from the early 1890s, and while […]
2013-01-09 21:20:37
New York has neon, Berlin has bars, but ah! Caramoor!
This summer at Caramoor, Will Crutchfield (not pictured) will conduct two Verdi operas written for the Paris Opéra. On July 6 the festival presents Les vêpres Siciliennes featuring Angela Meade, John Osborn, Marco Nisticò and Burak Bilgili. Two weeks later Don Carlos takes the stage of the Venetian Theater, with a cast boasting Jennifer Check, Jennifer Larmore, Arnold Rutkowski, Stephen Powell and Christophoros Stamboglis.
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