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CD Review | Schumann: Kreisleriana & Geistervariationen – Widmann: Elf Humoresken (Analekta, 2023)

By Pietro Freiburger on 31 July 2023 CD and Book Reviews, Piano

Schumann: Kreisleriana & Geistervariationen – Widmann: Elf Humoresken Aaron Pilsan, piano Analekta, 2023 Austrian pianist Aaron Pilsan shows imaginative and intense pianism, as well as remarkable maturity despite his young age. Kreisleriana is interpreted with an appropriate inner turmoil. One of Schumann’s most complex works, the piece is played with incredible emotional variation. The contrast between the soul of Florestano and that of Eusebius, the eternal struggle between reason and feeling, is audible from the beginning. Piece No. 5, Sehr lebhaft, is emblematic of Schumannian poetics: endowed with an enormous emotional depth that cannot emerge in all its disruptive force…

CD Review | Brahms in Solitude (Self-published, 2023)

By Meg Freer on 31 July 2023 CD and Book Reviews, Piano, Romantic

Brahms in Solitude Jarred Dunn, piano Self-published, 2023 This album’s 11 pieces create a well-planned trajectory through Brahms’s poetic music, and Jarred Dunn demonstrates a natural ability in performing this music. The album opens with three pieces from Klavierstücke Op. 118, perhaps the most well-known opus of Brahms’s late piano music. Dunn gives us a taste of Brahms’s various meditative styles: first, the dramatic and emotional Intermezzo in A minor; then, the lyrical Intermezzo in A major (the Brahms Intermezzo), beautifully played with interior lines of counterpoint; and ending with the foreboding, intense, chromatically colourful Intermezzo in E-flat minor. Two…

CD Review | Néo-Romance (Secret City Records, 2023)

By Zenith Wolfe on 31 July 2023 CD and Book Reviews, Piano, Romantic

Néo-Romance Secret City Records, 2023 Alexandra Stréliski, piano and organ; Natalia Kotarba, violin; Fayçal Cheboub, viola; Julia Kotarba, cello; Pierre-Olivier Rioux, double-bass Although Néo-Romance plays with the romantic genre in inventive ways, the musical fidelity is overshadowed by a glaring audio quality issue. The works on this album are initially reminiscent of slow, meditative, romantic solo piano repertoire until The first kiss surprises the listener with the addition of cello and violin. These bring a great deal of emotional weight and dynamism to the album. In Air de famille, however, listeners may begin hearing the felt striking the piano’s strings…

June 17, 2023. Winners of the Cliburn International Junior Competition are from left second place Yifan Wu (China,14), first place Seokyoung Hong (South Korea, 15) and third place Jan Schulmeister (Czechia, 16) at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Tx. (Photo by Ralph Lauer)

Newswire | South Korean Seokyoung Hong Wins 2023 Cliburn Junior

By Newswire on 17 June 2023 Music Competition, Newswire, Piano

DALLAS, Texas, June 17, 2023—After 12 days of thrilling competition at Caruth Auditorium at SMU and this afternoon’s Final Round Concert with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and conductor Valentina Peleggi at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, the winners of the 2023 Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival were announced on Saturday evening. The Winners Bernice Gressman Meyerson First Prize cash award of $15,000 Seokyoung Hong 홍석영, 15, South Korea Shirley Cox McIntyre Second Prize cash award of $10,000 Yifan Wu 吴一凡, 14, China The Horchow Family Third Prize cash award of $5,000 Jan Schulmeister, 16, Czechia Each finalist…

Newswire | Finalists Announced for the 2023 Cliburn Junior

By Newswire on 15 June 2023 Classical Music, Music Competition, Newswire, Piano

DALLAS, Texas, June 15, 2023—Janina Fialkowska, chairman of the Jury for the 2023 Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival (taking place June 8–17, 2023, at Caruth Auditorium at SMU and Meyerson Symphony Center) is proud to announce the three pianists advancing to the Final Round. The Final Round will take place this Saturday, June 17, beginning at 2:30 p.m. CT, at Meyerson Symphony Center, where each finalist will perform a full concerto with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Valentina Peleggi. Tickets to attend the Final Round in person are on sale now at Cliburn.org. The concert will also…

Photo: Allan Cabral

Review | TSO with Gimeno and Olafsson: Superb Mozart and Spectacular Berlioz

By Paul E. Robinson on 11 June 2023 Concert Reviews, La Scena Online, Orchestral, Piano, Toronto

It is not often that the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) features a soloist from Iceland, nor does it frequently play music by Icelandic composers. Yet this week we had both – on the same program. Not only that, the TSO gave us a new piece by a Metis composer. But wait, there’s more. Super Mozart and spectacular Berlioz. In short, a great concert. The TSO is currently celebrating its 100th anniversary, and someone came up with the brilliant idea of commissioning 10 Toronto composers to write short pieces to draw attention to it. The first of the Celebration Preludes was…

June 7, 2023. The competitors for the Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival at Caruth Auditorium on the SMU campus in Dallas, Tx. (Photo by Ralph Lauer)

Newswire | Cliburn Junior Announced the Order of Performance for Its 2023 Edition

By Newswire on 8 June 2023 Classical Music, Music Competition, Newswire, Piano

DALLAS, Texas, June 7, 2023—The Cliburn celebrated the beginning of the Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival at the Opening Dinner & Draw Party Wednesday evening, June 7, 2023, at the Bush Institute in Dallas. The competitors and members of the Jury received warm welcomes from Cliburn staff and patrons. Speakers included Jeffrey B. King, Cliburn chairman of the board, Jacques Marquis, Cliburn president and CEO, and Buddy Bray, Cliburn artistic consultant. After dinner, Jacques Marquis, Dr. Sam Holland, dean of the SMU Meadows School of the Arts, and Kim Noltemy, Ross Perot president and CEO of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, drew competitor…

Summer Reading Suggestion | House Concert (Polity Books, 2023)

By Zenith Wolfe on 30 May 2023 CD and Book Reviews, Piano

House Concert by Igor Levit and Florian Zinnecker Polity Books, 2023 ISBN 978-1509553556 With his debut at Carnegie Hall postponed indefinitely by COVID, virtuoso Russian-German pianist Igor Levit didn’t have anywhere to perform. So he made his own stage at home, in Berlin. In House Concert, journalist and Die Zeit deputy desk manager Florian Zinnecker explores the transformation of Levit’s career during the pandemic. His livestreams—a series of house concerts broadcast from his living room on Twitter—kept the musician sane, but they also encouraged him to break out of classical performance traditions and carve his own musical journey. Combined with…

Summer Reading Suggestion | Every Good Boy Does Fine (Random House, 2022)

By Paul E. Robinson on 30 May 2023 CD and Book Reviews, Piano

Every Good Boy Does Fine by Jeremy Denk Random House, 2022 ISBN 978-0812995985 Last year, in Calgary, I heard a remarkable recital by American pianist Jeremy Denk. A wonderfully gifted pianist equipped with a fabulous technique, a refreshing approach to programming and an insatiable curiosity, Denk likes to address the audience at his concerts and always has something interesting to say. As readers of his blog Think Denk or his occasional New Yorker articles know by now, he is a brilliant writer, too. His first book—Every Good Boy Does Fine—is subtitled A Love Story, in Music Lessons. Basically, it’s a…

CD Review | Montréal Musica (Centrediscs, 2023)

By Pietro Freiburger on 29 May 2023 Canadian Music, CD and Book Reviews, Contemporary, Piano, Scena Jazz

Montréal Musica Marc Bourdeau, piano Centrediscs, 2023 Marc Bourdeau’s new project features piano music by Montreal composers. The innovative project, conceived during the pandemic, includes a CD containing 22 tracks and eight short films and music videos. Among the composers, there are names of yesterday and today who’ve made Montreal famous in the music world: piano star Marc-André Hamelin; “Canadian Mozart” André Mathieu; jazz monument Oscar Peterson, composers and pedagogues François Morel, Claude Champagne, Jacques Hétu, John Rea and Denis Gougeon; and organist Rachel Laurin. The CD, whose repertoire spans a century (1918-2017), offers the image of a city with…

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