Beethoven
Staatskapelle Berlin, Barenboim, Royal Festival HallMonday, 01 February 2010![]() The returns queue gets longer and so does the wait – considerably longer than the 69 minutes of programmed music in this the second of the Daniel Barenboim Beethoven/Schoenberg series. But what a satisfying two–course meal it was: Schoenberg’s “... Read more... |
Staatskapelle Berlin, Barenboim, Royal Festival HallFriday, 29 January 2010![]() Anyone who can sell out four concerts of Beethoven and Schoenberg, even if it's only half-scary Schoenberg, surely looms large in the public imagination. Daniel Barenboim is a great humanitarian figure, and has been a thought-provoking... Read more... |
Philharmonia, Mackerras, RFHSunday, 13 December 2009![]() Creative old age brings with it not just the expected serene glow but also a singular urgency, a fresh intensity, or so that magisterial pianist Claudio Arrau once wrote. Arrau was a living testament to his claim; so, now, is the 84-year-old Sir... Read more... |
Birthdays on the Tube, 13-19 DecemberSaturday, 12 December 2009A continuing series celebrating musicians' birthdays. 16 December 1899: Noel Coward, sharing a birthday with Beethoven, an early English rapper of the silk polka dot dressing gown and cigarette holder school. {youtube width="400" height="300"}... Read more... |
Till Fellner, Wigmore HallWednesday, 21 October 2009![]() Much like Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in G, Op 79, with which he started the programme, I’ll get straight to the point. Till Fellner is a very good pianist. To demonstrate this, I’d like to jump to the last sonata of five we heard in this all-Beethoven... Read more... |
DVD Release: In Search of BeethovenSunday, 06 September 2009![]() Early on in Phil Grabsky's documentary In Search of Beethoven (out today on DVD), handy fortepiano player and Ludwig van-lookalike Ronald Brautigam starts screwing up a section of Beethoven's very first, unpublished piano concerto. "If I concentrate... Read more... |
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