Richard Goode News
American musician
- piano
- classical music
- United States of America
- classical pianist, university teacher
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2024-03-19
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2022-12-12 12:00:19
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2022-06-20 13:43:38
Mieczysław Horszowski, 2022
[…] June 23rd of 1892. He became Theodor Leschetizky’s student at the age of seven and played Beethoven’s Piano concerto no. 1 in Warsaw at the age of eight. In 1906 he made his American debut, playing at the Carnegie Hall. Since 1914 till the outbreak of WWII he lived in Milan and then moved to the United States where he joined the staff of the Curtis Institute (among his students were Murray Perahia, and Richard Goode). Despite his small hands, Horszowski had a fabulous technique, and his favorite repertoire – works by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin – didn’t require huge hands. As many of Leschetizky’s pupils (we can think of Artur Schnabel, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Ignaz Friedman), Horszowski had a beautiful singing sound. For 50 years he partnered with his friend Pablo Casals, who preferred Horszowski to any other pianist. Here's Bach’s Partita No. 2 in C […]
2022-05-19 05:07:00
Opalescent (CD review)
[…] felt those, and felt all the intensity of Leon trying to create a work that would make his life land. One day, I played a few bars of Janáček after rehearsal. He looked more crestfallen than usual. ‘Oh,’ he said, ‘I never wrote anything as beautiful as that one phrase.’”“If you want a nerdy thrill, compare Mahler’s opening [of his Symphony No. 1] to the opening of Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony. An honorable theft: reshaping, modernizing.”“Richard Goode once said that a performance he heard [of the opening of Beethoven’s “Waldstein” Sonata] was so fast that it sounded like a ‘vacuum cleaner,’ which made me laugh and think of another great Beethoven story. Ferdinand Ries played a bit of the ‘Tempest’ Sonata and Beethoven was listening and scolded him for messing up. So Beethoven sat down to demonstrate, and it sounded, in the words of Ries, ‘like someone was cleaning the piano.’ […]
2022-04-28 00:37:45
[…] SHCS collaborates with local schools and subsidizes hundreds of student tickets each season. The list of artists presented by SHCS is remarkable—Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, Ewa Podlés, Maurizio Pollini, Jacqueline du Pré, Mstislav Rostropovich, Jordi Savall, András Schiff, Rudolf Serkin, Janos Starker, Daniil Trifonov, Lynn Harrell, Emmanuel Ax, Alban Berg Quartet, Guarneri Quartet, Kronos Quartet, ClevelandQuartet, and Quartetto Italiano, among many others. SHCS also has a history of championing importantmusicians early in their careers, including Richard Goode, Hilary Hahn, Hélène Grimaud, Dawn Upshaw, Lang Lang, and the Emerson String Quartet. Commissioned composers include Timo Andres, Sebastian Currier,Jonathan Leshnoff, James Lee III, Hannah Lash, and Nina C. Young. Designed specifically for the community, SHCS offers the Discovery Series, a series of free concerts presented in venues throughout the region focused on artists emerging on the national and international scene. Artists featured include Narek Hakhnazaryan, Colin Currie, Xavier Foley, and the Dover Quartet. SHCS also offers the annual […]
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