Musical Pointers Jirí Belohlávek conductor; zoltan kocsis - piano JANÁCEK Sinfonietta Sokolov is a famous cult pianist, with admirers for whom he can do no wrong. http://www.musicalpointers.co.uk/reviews/liveevents/pianists_january.htm
Extractions: FRANCK Sonata; PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 2 Grigory Sokolov I was, as so often before, given to wonder again why half this great and versatile pianist's recital was given over to Bach on a Steinway, or to Bach re-invented? He did not seem to have anything special or coherent to say in this music. It was romantic, with build-ups of crescendi, as if an organist was using (anachronistically) a swell box; the audience seemed to have loved it, which must be the main thing. I should have been more sympathetic and interested if Sokolov had opted for historic Bach arrangements, perhaps some of Busoni's or Siloti's; an area explored so fruitfully explored by Angela Hewitt.
Profile: Zoltán Kocsis Zoltán kocsis. Skip to main navigation. Photo of zoltan kocsis. Piano several compositions to Mr. kocsis, which the pianist has performed across Europe. http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/meettheorchestra/players/zoltankocsis/
Steven Neugarten (Piano) As a duo pianist he has performed with Tom Ades and with Rolf Hind, Piano Masterclasses Charles Rosen, Kurtag Gyorgy, kocsis zoltan, Alfred Brendel, http://www.maslink.co.uk/cvs/keyboards/neugarten(steven).html
Extractions: E-mail 'Steven Neugarten Edith Vogel A winner of several prizes in both national and international piano competitions, Steven Neugarten made his debut in 1988 at St. George's, Brandon Hill and has since performed throughout England and in Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Norway, Portugal, Singapore and Spain. His teachers have included James Gibb, Edith Vogel and Gyorgy Kurtag As a duo pianist he has performed with Tom Ades and with Rolf Hind, he recently toured in recital with saxophonist Simon Haram , he has worked with several larger ensembles including the Continuum, the Dallapiccola and the Guildhall New Music Ensembles ( Messiaen's Sept Haikai and Oiseaux Exotiques , Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire ); he was a member of the Gilliver-Neugarten-Nishino Trio, resident ensemble in the highly successful " Moto Perpetuo " festival of arts held in Pescocostanzo , Italy in 1996; Steven was then invited back to the 1998 Pescocostanzo festival to perform in three concerts with the wind quintet ' Achord ' and as a soloist in a group of Ligeti's Piano Etudes. His solo repertoire ranges from J.S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven through to
Zoltan Kocsis - Mozart, Beethoven, & Schubert : MovieOutfitter.com Renowned Hungarian composer, conductor, and pianist zoltan kocsis is known forhis thoughtful and emotive interpretations of the classics. http://www.movieoutfitter.com/store/item/064572153229/ZoltanKocsis-Mozart,Beetho
Extractions: UPC-Code Category Source NuTech Digital Originally Released DVD Release Date Rating Not Rated Runtime 2 Hours 11 Minutes Director DESCRIPTION Renowned Hungarian composer, conductor, and pianist Zoltan Kocsis is known for his thoughtful and emotive interpretations of the classics. This recording showcases his flair for three masters Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. Running nearly 90 minutes, Kocsis's playing captures the myriad of emotions tension, drama, tragedy, and joy that the composers surely intended.
Associazione Musicale Frugoni FABIO BIDINI pianist. Born in Arezzo, Italy, FABIO BIDINI began his first As a chamber musician he worked with the following artists zoltan kocsis, http://www.associazionemusicalefrugoni.com/artisti ing/fabio_bidini.htm
Extractions: FABIO BIDINI - pianist Born in Arezzo, Italy, FABIO BIDINI began his first piano studies at the age five. His most important teachers were Orazio Frugoni (a student of Casella and Lipatti) and Maria Tipo (student of Scaramuzza, Casella and Agosti). In 1985 he received his diploma Magna cum Laude from the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome. Since the age of seven years he has been awarded the first prize in eleven of Italy's most prestigious national piano competitions and has been the winner of the top prizes awarded in eight international competitions (Van Cliburn - Fort Worth, Busoni - Bozen 1988 and 1992, WNP International Piano Competition - London, Beethoven International Piano Competition - Köln, UNISA - Pretoria, Marsala International Piano Competition - Marsala). In 1992, in a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Barbican Center and the London Symphony Orchestra's residency there, Bidini appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas in a performance of Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat, joining other guest artists James Galway, Barbara Hendricks and Sir Georg Solti.
Fabio Bidini Piano Biography Italian Pianist Fabio Bidinis Mr. Bidini works with many distinguished artists including zoltan kocsis, The Italian pianist Fabio Bidini brought a velvety tone to the moonstruck http://www.artsmg.com/bidini/bidini.htm
Extractions: Italian pianist FABIO BIDINIs appearances have included performances with The London Symphony Orchestra at Barbican, The Philharmonia Orchestra of London at Royal Festival Hall, New World Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Forth Worth Chamber Orchestra, Forth Worth Symphony Orchestra, The Philharmonia Orchestra Prague at the Rudolphinum, and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra at Liszt Academy Hall. He has collaborated with conductors including Michael Tilson Thomas, Ivan Fisher, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Zoltan Kocsis, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Thomas Hanus, Michael Christie, Gianandrea Noseda, Barry Wordsworth, Eri Klas, David Itkin, and Keri-Lynn Wilson and JoAnn Falletta. For the 04-05 season, Mr. Bidinis toured the Northeastern and Southeastern U.S. with the NWD Philharmonie of Germany performing in Florida, Georgia, Pennyslvania and New York. He also performs with the Kansas City Symphony, the Reno Chamber Orchestra, the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Rhode Island Philharmonic.
Extractions: Csaba Kiraly was born at Komlo in 1965. He was six when he started learning the piano under Maria Apagyi. At the age of twelve he began to learn the organ under Istvan Lantos. From 1981 his studies were continued at the "Bela Bartok" Secondary Music School in Budapest with Katalin Halmagyi, and in 1983 he gained admission to the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music During his student years he won first prize in all national competitions organized for his age group: 1980 - National Piano Competition for Music Schools (Nyiregyhaza); 1982 - National Piano Competition for Secondary Music Schools (Bekestarhos); 1990 - Erno Dohnanyi National Piano Competition (Academy of Music Budapest). In the meantime in 1985 he - won the first prize in the National Piano Competition of the Hungarian Radio, being one of the youngest competitors, as a result of which he became known throughout the country. After several years teaching and concert giving he undertook to play in competitions again, and was
Rachmaninov: The Piano Concertos to Earl Wild, to zoltan kocsis, to Argerich, Rubinstein, Richter, Rodriguez, Stephen Hough is a pianist of immense finesse, who is incapable of http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/67501.asp
Extractions: Ever since we started working with Stephen in 1996 recording these concertos has been on the agenda: its probably been the project closest to his heart. But it took several years before we found the orchestra and conductor that we felt would do justice to this important project. The combination of Dallas and Litton offers a conductor who adores Rachmaninov (he has recorded all the symphonies) and understands the works from a pianists perspective, an orchestra with a glorious and old-fashioned string sound of the kind with which the composer would be familiar, a hall to record in which is one of the best in the world, and lets not forget Stephen Hough who has already won two Gramophone Record of the Year accolades for his concerto recordings. As the results here triumphantly show, all our hopes have been fulfilled, and more. Apart from the Paganini Rhapsody, recorded after a concert performance, these are essentially live recordings. Over a period of eighteen days eleven concerts were given, with each concerto being played several times. From these we have pieced together an ideal performance free of coughs, noises and the few musical mishaps which occurred, but still capturing the excitement of what was, by common consent, a sensational series of concerts.
Article 0069 of Pierre Boulez s Ensemble InterContemporain) and famous pianist zoltan kocsis . zoltan kocsis arranged the premier of Burns s work Handshake After http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0069.html
Extractions: I n 1979 Csapo is given a post as professor of music at the Bartok Conservatory, where he is in charge of ear training, orchestration, musical theory and chamber music, and he stays there until 1983. Then he travels to the United States, while continuing as a lecturer at the Liszt Academy. Three years before he had paid a short visit to this country, where he became interested in the American musical panorama, since the NMS had been in close professional contact with the American avantgarde, having premiered several works by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, La Monte Young, Frederick Rzewski, Charlemagne Palestine and others, in spite of the dislike that the Hungarian government had for them, hardly "tolerating" them, given the Communist Party policies with regard to American cultural interference. The NMS members were not prosecuted as political instigators, however, thanks to the fact that the works they performed had no explicit texts whatsoever.
BBC - Radio 3 - Daily Schedule features Schumann s choral works and recordings by American pianist Byron Janis . zoltan kocsis (piano) 6.20am Wilhelm Stenhammar Ithaka, Op 21 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/schedule/2005/04/18/day/
Extractions: View by day View by week View by day View by day at a glance Print this page April M T W T F S S Mar May Previous Day Next Day morning afternoon evening Morning on 3 18 April 2005 Penny Gore presents music from Liszt's first two books of Annees de Pelerinage and recordings from the career of Claudio Abbado. Music includes, from 7.00am
Independent Online Edition > Reviews : App2 One such victim is the Bavarian pianist Gerhard Oppitz, zoltan kocsis isbigger on the circuit than Oppitz, though his celebrity is well deserved. http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article301760.ece
Extractions: Ads_kid=0; Ads_bid=0; Ads_xl=0; Ads_yl=0; Ads_xp=''; Ads_yp=''; Ads_opt=0; Ads_wrd=''; Ads_prf='art=301760'; Ads_par=''; Ads_cnturl=''; Ads_sec=0; Ads_channels=''; var articleheadline = "The Classical Collection" Choosing an edition of Beethoven's solo piano is rather less easy, though even readers with set preferences could benefit from journeying through Friedrich Gulda: Decca Beethoven recordings 1950-1958 (Decca 475 6835, 11 discs ****). Gulda's forays into jazz spilt over just a little into his classical playing, meaning that there is a certain unbridled assertiveness that, in the case of the three last sonatas (a highlight of this set), will bring you to the edge of your seat. The earlier performances tend to be crisp, sprightly and rather formal, polished playing that is also warmly conscientious, the work of a man who both loves and respects the music but who also senses its divine madness. r.cowan@ independent.co.uk
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Decca Music Group - Zoltán Kocsis These are all milestones along the path of the Hungarian pianist Zoltán kocsis . At present, Zoltán kocsis is busy researching and recording all of http://www.deccaclassics.com/artists/kocsis/biog.html
Decca Music Group - New Release Hungarian pianist Zoltán kocsis recorded all of Bartóks solo piano music as wellas the three concertos and rarities such as the Rhapsody and Scherzo over http://www.deccaclassics.com/newsandnewreleases/may2005/4756720.html
Zoltán Kocsis Zoltán kocsis is an internationally acknowledged concert pianist. He teaches atthe Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. http://www.hungarianquarterly.com/no149/157.html
Extractions: Improvisations (including Chopin: Etude in C Major, Op. 10/1) * Bach-Busoni: Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532 * Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in A Major, K. 101; Sonata in D Major, K. 96 ("The Chase") * Schumann: Toccata, Op. 7 * Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6; Polonaise in E Major; Grand Galop chromatique * Chopin: Polonaise in A flat Major, Op. 53 György Cziffra, piano, EMI Classics 7243 4 91715 3 4, VHS Mono, 59 minutes.
Zoltán Kocsis Zoltán kocsis, pianist, conductor and composer, is Music Director of the HungarianNational Philharmonic Orchestra. His 1987 recording of Bartók s Complete http://www.hungarianquarterly.com/no151/070.html
Extractions: Suddenly the doorbell rang. An elderly and rather agitated woman stood in the doorway. Dispensing almost entirely with the niceties of polite conversation, she made it clear that there was to be no more rattling of the ivories, because she wanted to have her afternoon nap in peace. I managed to calm her down, not without difficulty, and she duly left. When I went back in to where Richter was, he asked immediately: Sto? Sto?" (We communicated in the curious mixture of Russian and German he seemed to find most comfortable). Nyevazmozhno igraty", I answered. What then took place seems unbelievable even now. Richter began swearing loudly and flung his spectacles onto the floor (my mother, who was also there, still has a piece of the frame), where of course they smashed to smithereens (Bruno kept finding bits of glass for months afterwards). Then he ran out. By the time we had recovered from the shock of this, he had disappeared. Which was all very well, but we had to rehearse; we were not yet ready for our performance. I thought I would find him in his hotel that eveninghe always stayed at the George V, the best hotel in Parisbut evening came and he was still nowhere to be found. By then, of course, it was not only me who was looking for him; his agent, his doctor and a considerable crowd of admirers were all concerned as to his whereabouts. At the reception they said he hadn't been seen since the night before. We were at a loss. What could we possibly do? Added to that, the Metro had shut down and there were no longer any buses running, so it was about 3 a.m. before I managed to get home. The following day, about midday, the telephone rang. It was the Maestro in person. He said we really must rehearse that afternoon; and that I really must go and see the show at the Moulin Rouge if I possibly could. He hadn't had such a good time in ages.
Extractions: has become associated with the music of the Second Viennese School through a succession of recordings, chief amongst them the angst-ridden Erwartung and a highly regarded (by some) Wozzeck . The Romantic excesses of Mahler also seem to suit his temperament. And if there is one piece that exemplifies this late-Romantic energy, it is Mahlers first symphony. Quite an achievement, then, for pianist Alban Bergs Passacaglia Wozzeck , prefiguring passages following Maries murder, and is characteristically Bergian: immediately after the first statement of the theme, the texture becomes chromatically saturated. It is true that it lacks the finish of the approved works of Bergs canon (some brass imitative passages are contrived), but it nevertheless is a fascinating part of the jigsaw of this elusive composer and his output. tutti . It was the brass which rescued the day, with a fine peroration (horns standing as they blared out the final statements) which certainly met with the audiences approval.
Extractions: Zoltan Kocsis has always gone his own way. His forceful musicality and faith exclude all possibility of compromise. His aim at perfectionism elicits respect in his environment. His boldness and revolutionary spirit stem from his belief that the basic requirement of performing art is the continuous endeavour of sounding the works in the spirit of the composer.
