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Russian Soviet pianist, composer and teacher
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2023-12-18 15:57:45
Three Pianists, December 2023
[…] competition (the 18-year-old Andrei Gavrilov was the winner; a talented pianist, he had an interesting but brief career, which in its significance could not be compared to Schiff’s). András Schiff was born into a Jewish family in Budapest. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music there (György Kurtág was one of his professors and Zoltán Kocsis, who studied there at the same time, became a friend). He also took summer classes with Tatiana Nikolayeva and Bella Davidovich. Since the late 1980s he, like Uchida, has been living in London, and like her, was knighted (in 2014). Schiff is one of the most admired pianists of his generation; he feels comfortable in many venues: he plays recitals and concertos, loves ensemble playing, and often accompanies singers. His Bach is wonderful, but so are his Mozart and Haydn, Schubert and Schumann. He often played the music of his fellow Hungarian […]
2022-06-20 20:16:31
Anglais - First Rate Cast in Excellent Revival of Madama Butterfly at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Set in Nagasaki, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly of 1904-07, with a libretto by Giuseppe Giacoso and Luigi Illica, explores the relationship between the American naval officer Pinkerton and Cio-Cio-San from the city’s Omara district. Cio-Cio-San, whom Pinkerton both affectionately and patronisingly addresses as Madam Butterfly, takes their love so seriously that she converts to Christianity, and is consequently ostracised by her family. He, on the other hand, sees their marriage as being akin to his Japanese house, which he has on a 999-year lease that he can cancel at any moment. When he leaves for America soon after the wedding, it seems obvious to everyone, including Cio-Cio-San’s maid Suzuki, the American consul at Nagasaki Sharpless and the local marriage broker Goro, that he will not be returning, but Cio-Cio-San will simply not accept this. It transpires she possesses a ‘trump card’ that explains why she believes she can persuade him to come […]
2022-03-10 08:30:56
Anglais - Oliver Mears’s Rigoletto Finds its Stride at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Some productions are tremendous on their first outing and never quite manage to recapture the same brilliance in subsequent revivals. Others discover that they need an initial outing before they find their feet, and the Royal Opera’s Rigoletto, from its Director of Opera Oliver Mears, would seem to fall into this latter category. It first appeared last September, but, aided by an outstanding cast, its first revival feels leaner and meaner in a great many ways. The good news is that once such productions hit their stride they tend to retain what they have achieved, meaning we have many good revivals to look forward to yet. Based on Victor Hugo’s play Le roi s’amuse, Giuseppe Verdi’s 1851 opera does not possess the same moral dimension as the majority of operas. While many works see the innocent suffer and die, there is usually a sense in which virtue has triumphed if only […]
2021-09-23 07:52:31
On DSCH: Igor Levit combines large-scale works by two two highly independent, creative minds, the Russian Dmitri Shostakovich and the Lancastrian-born Scot Ronald Stevenson
[…] together. This set is much more than a recital, at three substantial discs it represents a challenge to our lazy notions of how piano music developed in the mid-20th century. Shostakovich wrote his 24 Preludes and Fugues in the early 1950s after having his music condemned by the Soviet party machine for the second time in 1948 (the first time had been after the premiere of his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk). Inspired by Tatiana Nikolayeva's performance from memory of both books of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Shostakovich produced a sort of musical diary, a highly personal work in which the composer turns in on himself and via 24 miniatures based on Bach's musical structures, creates a world which is a sort of intimate musical diary. Stevenson, by contrast, was intent in 1960s on producing a work which paid tribute to his great colleague, and Stevenson's Passacaglia is based around the […]
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