Archive for January, 2014
Time well wasted #11
Claudio Abbado
Sometimes you take Monday off and the whole week is upside down. You can’t for the life of you remember which day it is. We have a little trick to solve this problem: we keep an eye on the Philharmonie’s programme. If it’s Urna and Kroke, then it must be Wednesday. The trouble is when we are lucky enough to have Nikolai Lugansky for two nights. Then we can’t be sure whether it’s Thursday or Friday. But today I’m positive it’s Friday. Who can forget Friday? Here are a few links to keep you busy Saturday and Sunday. More
Looking for something new?
(Photo: Marco Borggreve)
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to discover something new every day then here’s our little tip for Friday. More
Metal with a twist
They are cellists. They graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. They dress in black and wear eyeliner. They play Metallica. And Wagner. This is the second part of our series “The unexpected”. More
Time well wasted #10
Lang Lang, ready to hang out with a rock band (photo: Olaf Heine)
Ha, it’s good to be back. Why would we want to stay at home, reading a good book by the fire sipping on a cup of (spiked) tea, when we can sit at a desk all day staring at a computer screen? Positive thinking is the key! To be fair coming back to work also meant that the concerts would resume and we’ve been lucky this week, what with the “Neijoersconcert” and yesterday’s concert with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Evgeny Kissin. I mean, you don’t get that when you work at, say, a law firm. So here’s to the new year and the upcoming concerts!
At the rehearsal
The good news: Our composer in residence was happy with the Philharmonia Orchestra’s rehearsal.
The bad news: He didn’t like the photo in the printed programme. «Not up to date», he said. More
Building a stage persona
Lang Lang at the Philharmonie Luxembourg in 2010 (photo: S. Grébille)
Two journalists came to the defense of Lang Lang and all other flamboyant stage personae earlier this week. We shouldn’t dismiss stage attire and so-called excessive body language too quickly, they say, as they might well be necessary to classical music. They touch on the subject from two different angles. More
When the stars align
Evgeny Kissin (photo: Felix Broede, EMI)
It happens to every music fan at least once. They go to a concert and by the end of it they think: “This is a concert that I’ll never forget.” It’s the concert that will ruin the following concerts because no matter how good they are they’ll just never stand the comparison. Sometimes the stars align and you have the time of your life. That’s what concert-goers must have felt when they heard the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan with Evgeny Kissin as soloist perform Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 in 1989 in Salzburg.
When the stars align
Evgeny Kissin (photo: Felix Broede, EMI)
It happens to every music fan at least once. They go to a concert and by the end of it they think: “This is a concert that I’ll never forget.” It’s the concert that will ruin the following concerts because no matter how good they are they’ll just never stand the comparison. Sometimes the stars align and you have the time of your life. That’s what concert-goers must have felt when they heard the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan with Evgeny Kissin as soloist perform Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 in 1989 in Salzburg.
Tchaikovsky on the radio
Our composer in residence met the press a couple of weeks ago. Listen to the interview he gave to radio 100,7 tonight at 19:05 in Klassikmagazin!
Tchaikovsky on the radio
Our composer in residence met the press a couple of weeks ago. Listen to the interview he gave to radio 100,7 tonight at 19:05 in Klassikmagazin!
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