Sergei Babayan News
Armenian-American concert pianist
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- classical music
- Soviet Union, United States of America
- classical pianist, music teacher
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2022-11-19 17:03:00
New York Philharmonic. Hannu Lintu, conductor; Sergei Babayan & Daniil Trifonov, pianos. November 18, 2022.
[…] and many percussion instruments (per Program Notes: timpani, xylophone, cymbals, suspended cymbal, snare drums played both with and without snares, tam-tam, triangle, and bass drum.) For good measure a celesta was thrown in the mix. I do suspect if the percussionists and their instruments were situated in their usual positions in the back, things would sound the same - and I say that with great admiration for the percussionists.The stars are of course Trifonov and Babayan. I know little about Babayan, other than he was Trifonov's teacher at some point, and that he is Armenian-American. This was also the NY Phil debut for the Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu. With van Zweden leaving in a couple of years, one wonders whether there is any audition elements whenever a new face appears.The 25-minute piece was quite interesting. I couldn't see the pianists clearly, I could tell they were enjoying the give and […]
2022-04-30 05:07:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 30, 2022
[…] hosted by award-winning radio producer Aaron Cohen, each season of the Embrace Everything podcast guides listeners through one of Mahler’s landmark symphonies, incorporating commentary from leading Mahler interpreters and scholars, readings from the letters of Mahler and his contemporaries, and music from the symphonies themselves.“Embrace Everything” can be heard on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify, among other streaming platforms.For more information, visit https://www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/--Lisa Jaehnig, Shuman AssociatesBach Week Festival Announces Program Changes for Pianist Sergei BabayanThe Chicago area’s Bach Week Festival has announced that pianist Sergei Babayan will perform his Gilmore International Piano Festival recital program at his May 10, 2022, solo appearance in Evanston, Illinois, in lieu of J. S. Bach’s “The Well-Tempered Clavier,” Book 1, BWV 846–869.Babayan’s Bach Week recital has been retitled “Babayan Plays Bach, Rachmaninoff, and More.”On May 12, Babayan will solo in J. S. Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052, rather […]
2022-03-26 05:25:00
Classical Music News of the Week, March 26, 2022
Chicago Area's 49th Annual Bach Week FestivalThe Chicago area’s 49th annual Bach Week Festival will present concerts in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, from April 24 to May 12, 2022.Performances will include the Baroque music festival’s first mainstage period-instrument program; a concert of Johann Sebastian Bach sacred and secular vocal masterworks, including the great Magnificat of 1723; the return of international piano sensation Sergei Babayan in an all-Bach solo recital; and a concert of Bach keyboard and violin concertos paired with a double-flute concerto by a Bach contemporary, composer-flutist Johann Joachim Quantz.“What’s striking, to me, about this year’s festival is the presence of works we’ve never performed before, alongside compositions that have been mainstays over the decades,” says Richard Webster, Bach Week’s music director since 1975. “We’re always on the lookout for ways to refresh and renew the festival.”Webster played harpsichord and organ at Evanston’s first Bach Week in 1974, which he helped […]
2022-03-05 12:30:23
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester; Wigmore Hall, LondonHope and humanity resound in Vaughan Williams’s anti-war symphonies, while Argerich and Babayan’s Prokofiev moves from breakneck to dreamlike Plans to mark the 150thanniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth have been years in the making, but no one could have imagined how prescient last weekend’s Manchester launch event would turn out to be. On a night when Russian tanks were encroaching further into Ukraine, two of the composer’s finest symphonies – both conceived in time of war, both firmly rejecting military bombast – sent a message of hope and a vision of peace out into the anxious air. Undoubtedly sensing the bleak headlines, the
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