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2024-01-23 08:23:00
Homage to Liszt: Benjamin Grosvenor on astonishing form in Liszt and Brett Dean in Lucerne
Brett Dean: Faustian Pact - Benjamin Grosvenor - Le Piano Symphonique at Lukaskirche, Lucerne (Photo: Philipp Schmidli für das Luzerner Sinfonieorchester)Brett Dean: Faustian Pact, Hommage à Liszt (first performance), Liszt: Sonata in B minor, Chopin: Sonata No. 3; Benjamin Grosvenor; Le Piano Symphonique at Lukaskirche, LucerneReviewed 19 January 2024Benjamin Grosvenor combines astonishing virtuosity alongside intimacy and sheer power in Liszt's sonata and Brett Dean's new piece inspired by Grosvenor's performance of the LisztWhat did the piano sonata mean for those who came after Beethoven. Chopin' first mature sonata (no 2 in B flat major from 1839) has become one of the icons of the piano repertoire, but for Robert Schumann the work demonstrated that Chopin could not handle sonata form. Chopin wrote his Sonata No. 3, in B minor (a key not used by Beethoven for his sonatas) in 1844, partly to counter these criticisms.Chopin adhered to the traditional four-movement sonata form […]
2024-01-19 09:51:00
Made in Switzerland: tenor Daniel Behle & pianist Oliver Schnyder combine musicality & intelligence in their recital for Lucerne's Le Piano Symphonique
View of Lucerne - watercolour by Felix Mendelssohn 1847 (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)Made in Switzerland - Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schubert/Liszt, Liszt, Wagner, R. Strauss; Daniel Behle, Oliver Schnyder; Le Piano Symphonique at Lukaskirche, Lucerne18 January 2024A wonderfully imaginative programme centred on music created in Switzerland in finely communicative and musical performances, combining bravura and technical skill with sheer musicality and intelligenceLe Piano Symphonique's lunchtime concerts in Lucerne largely take place in the Lukaskirche, a fine 1930s church not far from KKL, the festival's evening home. There, in front of the impressive stained glass window of the Last Judgement (by Louis Moilliet), Swiss pianist Oliver Schnyder and German tenor Daniel Behle presented Made in Switzerland on 18 January 2024, a programme exploring music by composers who lived and worked in Switzerland. Their programme centred on Liszt's Années de pèlerinage, Première année: Suisse, and ended with Richard Strauss, living in Switzerland after World War II and writing […]
2023-07-07 00:00:00
Shostakovich, Sibelius, Smetana & Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works (Paavo Berglund, Jorma Panula, Cristina Ortiz et al)
[…] ^ [30'19]Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo Berglund*; Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jorma Panula^Finlandia FACD004 [recorded in 1968; this compilation first issued in 1987][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: The Kulttuurialto Concert Hall, Helsinki, FinlandRecording engineer: Lennart Håkansson; Producer: Carl SandelinBedřich Smetana:01 - 06 Má Vlast, JB.1:112 [75'18]Staatskapelle Dresden conducted by Paavo BerglundEMI 085210-2 [Recorded March 1978; this issue 2011][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Lukaskirche, Dresden, GermanyRecording engineer: Claus Strüben; Producer: Suvi Raj GrubbRalph Vaughan Williams:1.01 The Wasps. Aristophanic Suite - I. Overture * [8'26]1.02 Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis * [16'35]1.03 - 1.05 Oboe Concerto in A minor ~^ [18'13]1.06 - 1.10 Symphony No. 4 in F minor # [31'08]2.01 - 2.04 Symphony No. 5 in D major + [39'12]2.05 - 2.08 Symphony No. 6 in E minor ^ [36'26]John Williams- oboe ~, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra […]
2021-12-17 00:00:00
Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Choral Fantasy (Peter Rosel, Herbert Kegel et al)
Ludwig van Beethoven:01. - 03. Triple Concerto in C major, op.56 * [35'49]04. Fantasia in C minor for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra, op.80 ^ [18'02]Peter Rosel- piano; Christian Funke- violin*, Jurnjakob Timm- cello*, Margot Stejskal- soprano, Elvira Puschkarova- mezzo, Annette Jahns- alto, Ekkehard Wagner- tenor, Matthias Henneberg- baritone, Olaf Bar- bass, Leipzig Radio Choir^; Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert KegelCapriccio 10150 [recorded July 1986* and November 1985^; CD issued 1987] [CD-rip; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans] Recording venue: Lukaskirche, DresdenRecording engineer: Claus Struben; Producer: Bernd Runge Download from Mega.