Classical CD Reissues Pt. 2, 5/04 AUDIOPHILE AUDITION Romanian pianist radu lupu (b. 1945) came to international prominence at the 1966 Van Cliburn Competition; then again at the Georges Enesco Competition, http://www.audaud.com/audaud/MAY04/reissues/recds2.html
Extractions: Inscriptions from November 1957 reissued from the Decca originals, featuring the late Jean Martinon (1910-1976), the able composer-conductor whose estimate in France was under-rated, but whose repute in Britain and the United States was high, especially in French music and in modern works. Martinon took his cue from Charles Munch, his mentor and professional guide, but Martinon's touch and colors were slightly more classical than Munch's penchant for colossal, romantic intensity. Martinon reminds me more of the classical chastity I hear in Roger Desormiere, whose sensibilities almost match Martinon's exactly. Both traverse modernism with elements of the classical ballet, qualities apparant in the Prokofiev C# Minor Symphony, the composer's swan-song that here, in this pristine rendition, might be an homage to Tchaikovsky.
Notes From The Pianists Bench The book is neither too elementary nor too advanced for any pianist, radu lupu What makes Mr. Bermans book so persuasive and enlightening is his http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300093985
Notes From The Pianist S Bench Boris Berman, an internationally known Russiantrained concert pianist and highly radu lupu Readers who want to become better pianists will welcome http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300083750
Extractions: Beethoven once said that if Napoleon knew as much about war as he knew about music, he wanted to show the French Emperor who the master really was. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat opus 73: The Emperor fully reflects the composer's aspiration to be the King of Music. A short study of the historical background of any composition often eases my involvement with the musical passages and I was listening to a captivating performance of Romanian pianist Radu Lupu on his 1973 Decca recording via the Zanden 2000 premium transport alongside its matching 5000 Signature DAC at the time of this writing.
Pianists, The Piano Forums, pianist audio samples, master pianists, piano compositions. Includes Argerich, Barenboim, Brendel lupu, radu. M. Michelangeli, Arturo Benedetti http://www.zeroland.co.nz/classical_pianists.html
Classical Voice Review - Southern California, February, 2004 nights allAustrian program was a joyful one that featured Austrian-born conductor Franz Welser-Möst and pianist radu lupu. radu lupu, pianist http://www.classicalvoice.org/reviews/RV_socal02_2004.htm
Extractions: By Classical Voice February, 2004 Tue, Feb 10 N ot often do you find a classical concert venue packed to the rafters on a Tuesday night. Even more remarkably, at only 23, violinist Hilary Hahn displayed a prodigious musicality and technique that all but bowled over her fans and skeptics alike in the audience (including my next-seat neighbor, a retired assistant concertmaster of the L.A. Phil). And she did all that with the ease and naturalness of an evening stroll in the park amidst the moonlit gardens of Mozart and J.S. Bach. The program started and ended with Mozart sonatas (K.301 and K.526). Hahn's playing was ingratiatingly free of mannerism and showing a surprising depth of emotion in the K.526 andante. Natalie Zhu 's piano playing, while generally excellent, was somewhat on the heavy side and did not match Hahn's scrupulous refinement and elegance.
Extractions: Posted by ottawastart The National Arts Centre Orchestra's summer Great Composers series on Thursday, July 7 features the return of the brilliant 18-year-old Chinese pianist Yuja Wang, who dazzled NAC audiences in February when she stepped in on short notice to replace superstar Radu Lupu. Yuja Wang will perform Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor with the NAC Orchestra led by Pinchas Zukerman. Zukerman will also conduct the Orchestra in Brahms' genial and elegant Serenade No. 2 for Small Orchestra. The 19:30 NAC Orchestra concert is preceded at 18:30 by Thomas Annand's Encounters with Bach which he is presenting prior to each of the four Great Composers concerts on July 5, 7, 12 and 20. For these half-hour Evening Overtures of organ music and chat, Annand will discuss and perform music by Bach as well by composers who influenced or were influenced by him. The 30-minute Encounter with Bach is included in the ticket price of the orchestral concert. Ticket-holders have the option of arriving at 18:30 for Thomas Annand, or coming at 19:30 if they decide to attend only the orchestral concert.
Lucerne Piano Festival radu lupu, Dénes Várjon, Lars Vogt, Arcadi Volodos, Evgeny Kissin, pianist Ethan Iverson recently premiered a series of original jazz etudes at http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1741
Extractions: Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor An Inktroduction by Johann D'Souza Jump to Recommended Recordings Very few piano concertos begin with a marking like "Maestoso". One which comes to mind is Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto , which is marked "Moderato". I point this out because commonly there is normally an "Allegro" (fast) first, followed by a slow movement and then ending with a relatively fast movement. Brahms on the other hand opts for "Maestoso-poco piu moderato" (majestically, a "little more moderato" - whatever that means...) and an Adagio second movement followed by another relatively moderate third movement Rondo (Allegro non troppo-piu animato-Tempo I) It is the marking of "Maestoso" in the first movement that I feel Brahms must have carefully picked to express his feelings of grief. The interplay of the woodwind against a backdrop of syncopated strings with sudden, fortissimo tutti entries strengthen this impression at this tempo, compared to a faster pace. Brahms wrote two piano concertos: the first in D minor and the second in B-flat major. Both are rather lengthy, like a symphony - roughly in the region of 50 minutes apiece. His Second Concerto is equally interesting with a distinct solo passage in the third movement played by cello and accompanied by the piano, something seldom seen. Written originally as a sonata for two pianos it was then turned into a symphony which finally found itself becoming a concerto. It begins with a very strong tutti reminiscent like that of an orchestral tutti . Its premiere was met with mixed feelings because of its size and the intensity needed to pull it off. The work was dubbed a "symphony with piano obligato" by the critics at the first performance.
NPG X126121; Radu Lupu NPG x126121; radu lupu. Sitter radu lupu (1945), pianist. Sitter in 1 portrait. Artist Marion Kalter. Artist of 2 portraits. http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp64660&rNo=0&role=art
Carnegie Hall pianist, TBA Program TBA. Zankel HallI. Tickets $28 $38 radu lupu, Piano BIRTWISTLE Night`s Black Bird DUTILLEUX Symphony No. 2, Le Double http://www.ffaire.com/musicplanner/ny/ch_feb05.html
Riaskoff Concert Management Presenteert: Serie Meesterpianisten radu lupu wo 11 mei 05 Zondag 8 mei kwam de Roemeense pianist radu lupu naar het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam voor een recital in de serie Meesterpianisten http://www.meesterpianisten.nl/nieuws.php?NieuwsID=56
Riaskoff Concert Management Presenteert: Serie Meesterpianisten De Roemeense meesterpianist radu lupu hoort zonder twijfel in die radu lupu is perfect pianist (NRC Handelsblad) zijn bij deze pianist gewoon geworden http://www.meesterpianisten.nl/recitals.php?RecitalID=189
WFMT RADIO NETWORK TO PRODUCE 25-WEEK RADIO SERIES The competition was established to honor Texas pianist Van Cliburn s sensational radu lupu (Gold Medalist, 1966) Cristina Ortiz (Gold Medalist, 1969) http://www.cliburn.org/page/419/1
Extractions: BROADCASTS BEGIN APRIL 11, 2005 FORT WORTH, TEXAS February 11, 2005The WFMT Radio Network is offering a twenty-five-week radio series showcasing one of the most important instrumental music competitions in the world, the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The radio series is made available to the WFMT network beginning on April 11, 2005. The Twelfth Cliburn Competition will be held from May 20 through June 5, 2005, in Forth Worth, Texas. Radio stations around the country will have the option of broadcasting this special immediately following the announcement and/or at the end of the radio series. The first eight radio programs leading up to the two-hour special will feature performances by and interviews with the medalists of previous competitions.
A Pianistic Life Of course I am not a professional pianist. I just play, compose and record for pure Recommended Recording radu lupu, piano. Free Mp3 recording http://www.math.umd.edu/~lisztian/pianisticLife.htm
Extractions: Welcome Welcome to my piano page, where I hope to introduce you (if not already acquainted) to the fantastic world of classical piano, Here you can find 'liszts' of my favorite pieces and recordings, links to downloadable .mp3 files of these works, .mp3 files of some of my own recordings of my playing that I have made recently at a recording studio at Arizona State University including one of my favorite compositions that I wrote along with much more. I plan to continuously update this page with more stuff including more recordings of my playing in .mp3 format as soon as I learn how to use the functionalities of my Roland KR-7 digital piano. At the end of this page, you will also find a short story of how I got interested in classical music. To start, here are pictures of me playing document.write(""); ...at the International Meshless 2005 conference in Lisbon, Portugal document.write(""); ...at the Chandler Center for Performing Arts in Arizona document.write("");
Orchestra Delivers Solid All-Beethoven Program radu lupu, piano soloist. AllBeethoven program. but the BSO s selection of Romanian pianist radu lupu as soloist made a special afternoon even more http://www-tech.mit.edu/V109/N59/bso.59a.html
Extractions: default BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. Radu Lupu, piano soloist. All-Beethoven program. January 12, Symphony Hall. By DEBBY LEVINSON AN ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM is always a treat, but the BSO's selection of Romanian pianist Radu Lupu as soloist made a special afternoon even more spectacular. Lupu's technique was flawless, and he brought a sensitive touch to the glissandi and trills of the "Allegro con brio" of the Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor . His touch was never overbearing or ponderous, even in the lower range, and his notes in the higher range sparkled. His performance of the concerto's cadenza was brilliant; Lupu drew out both the passage's storminess and its gentle lyricism. The third piece of the afternoon, the Symphony No. 3 in E flat , "Eroica," at first lacked the polish of the Piano Concerto there were some overly loud horn notes that bordered on the harsh but when the orchestra settled down, the piece regained its glorious, thunderous character. The second movement, "Marcia funebre; Adagio assai," was appropriately dark but dragged occasionally. The BSO's joyful, spirited rendition of the brisk-tempoed third movement was a welcome change from the moody, depressing atmosphere of the "Marcia funebre." The "Leonore" Overture No. 3
Extractions: The Beethoven Piano Concerto Festival began this past week with pianist Radu Lupu performing Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 . Mr. Lupu, one of the finest pianists performing these days, gave us a beautiful but greatly understated performance of this great concerto. The opening movement contained an exquisite piano solo by Mr. Lupu. The understated play may have been most profound in the sublime second movement with its infamous call and response between the orchestra strings and piano. Mr. Lupus response to the aggressive play of the orchestra strings was defiantly passive. Even the finale, the rondo: vivace, which often leaps off the stage sort of strolled through the concertos conclusion. Franz Welser-Most made a fine partner with Mr. Lupus interpretation keeping a tight control on the orchestras dynamics. The concerto was performed with almost a sense of insignificance though the music itself prevents that from happening. The evening continued with Franz Schuberts Symphony in B minor, D. 759
International Festival "George Enescu" Dan GRIGORE Dan Grigore, the marvellous pianist, had suffered severely under Ceausescu. Marina Krilovici, Silvia Marcovici, radu lupu, radu Aldulescu; http://www.festivalenescu.ro/eng/artisti/dan_grigore.html
Extractions: Born in Bucharest in the family of a distinguished pilot officer, Dan Grigore made his debut at age fourteen, in an Enescu chamber concert, together with famous soloists of the time, playing "Burlesque", "Choral" and "Carillon Nocturne" of the great Romanian composer, in first world audition. Winner of the George Enescu National Music Competition (1960), laureate of George Enescu International Music Competition (1961, 1967) and Montreal International Piano Competition in 1968. Professor at the Music University in Bucharest (1967 - 1979). His reputation continued growing and he had many prestigious invitations throughout Western Europe and in the Eastern block, being enthusiastically received by the audience and compared by the international critics, with the greatest pianists in the world. Since the downfall of the communist regime he has performed in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Antwerp, Paris, Berlin, Munchen, Budapest, Birmingham, Cardiff, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Bangkok, Warsaw, among other music centers.
Castle Classics Mozart - Piano Sonatas A very special pianist performing very special music CD Review Fantasie - Murray Perahia, radu lupu, piano. Label - Sony. Cat. No. - SK39511 http://shop.castleclassics.co.uk/acatalog/Mozart___Piano_Sonatas.html
