New York Chronicle By Jay Nordlinger Her pianist, as usual in these recitals, was lambert orkis, who was adequate andlargely supportive, but seldom assertive (meaning, helpfully assertive). http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/21/dec02/jay.htm
Extractions: by Jay Nordlinger W begin A-SM Porgy and Bess Her pianist, as usual in these recitals, was Lambert Orkis, who was adequate and largely supportive, but seldom assertive (meaning, helpfully assertive). As a pianist, he has the common tendency of rushing in difficult passages. Why people do this is a mystery, but it is a longstanding fact. Mutter has long been inconsistent; but she has become worryingly more so. Often, she plays like Cecilia Bartoli sings (alarmingly), and she can be as loopy, interpretively, as the latter-day Kathleen Battle. Porgy But surely she must have played Fritz Kreisler Tango, Song, and Dance A Streetcar Named Desire . The concluding Dance is jazz-fueled and kicky. C C The second half of the concert was given over to another C C major, and how many moods he could convey in it. Finally there comes a fugue, which the Guarneri executed deftly. One could see, at last, how they made their reputation. This was first-rate playing, with drive, expertise, and commitment. But the wait had been long. W Zwilich has made two versions of her clarinet concerto, one for chamber ensemble and one for orchestra. Not long after this Chamber Society concert, David Shifrin premiered the latter version with the Buffalo Philharmonic.
A Tale Of Two Prodigies By Jay Nordlinger Accompanying her was the pianist lambert orkis, an amiable American known forhis puckish comments from the stage and his advocacy of contemporary music. http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/feb00/NORDLING.htm
Extractions: by Jay Nordlinger A s fate had it, the violinists Joshua Bell and Anne-Sophie Mutter gave recitals in New York on consecutive January nights. As fate has also had it, they are about the same age (Bell is thirty-two, Mutter thirty-six), they were famous as teenagers, and they have large and enthusiastic followings. They seem destined to be compared, or at least jointly discussed. cantabile Bell, who enjoyed superb training, has the unteachable: musical judgment, taste. The repertory of the violin is vast, and he can play all of it, with no specialty or deficiency. He recalls a violinist of a past generation, Zino Francescatti, the impeccable Frenchman with the lilting Italian name. Bell, like him, is something better than a violinist: He is a musician. He is also one of the most underrated performers, critically, before the public today, a condition that can hardly last forever. T The second half of the program opened with a work by George Crumb, his Four Nocturnes for Violin and Piano (Night Music II Tzigane Habanera , which she dispatched limply and indifferently.
Millsaps College - Performing Arts Department Bell Concert Series Masterclass lambert orkis, pianist 900 am Gertrude C.Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall Free of charge. Monday, October 18th http://www.millsaps.edu/pfrmarts/upmus04fall.shtml
Welcome To Piano.com orkis, lambert provides information on the pianist. Osinchuk, Juliana - classicalpianist educated at the Juilliard School and offering workshops and http://www.piano.com/pianist/pianist_classical.cfm
Art Of The States: Manchega. Étude De Concert, Op. 38 pianist lambert orkis has achieved international renown for his performances asa soloist and chamber musician and his interpretations on period instruments http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=262
Anne-Sophie Mutter: A Discography with lambert orkis, pianist, Deutsche Grammophon 457619 / Nov 24, 1998; Numberof Discs 4. Beethoven Violin Concerto http://www.ffaire.com/mutter/mutterdisc.html
WholeNote Discoveries Beethoven Sonata in f minor, Op. 57 Appassionata lambert orkis Gary Graffman,a fine American pianist born in 1928, gives solid partnership in these http://www.thewholenote.com/discoveries_jun_05/discoveries_dotm.html
DVD Review Of Anne-Sophie Mutter: A Life With Beethoven - DVD Town Violinist AnneSophie Mutter and pianist lambert orkis devoted all of 1998 toplaying Ludwig van Beethovens 10 piano/violin sonatas, a Herculean task http://www.dvdtown.com/review/anne-sophiemutteralifewithbeet/10522/1217/
Extractions: Search our DVD database for Login Feedback New reviews All reviews A-Z ... Top DVD reviews by director / genre Ads_kid=0;Ads_bid=0;Ads_xl=0;Ads_yl=0;Ads_xp='';Ads_yp='';Ads_opt=0;Ads_wrd='[KeyWord]';Ads_prf='';Ads_par='';Ads_cnturl='';Ads_sec=0;Ads_channels='_GNM_DVD,_GNM_QLook,_GNM_QPlus,_GNM_RON_Q,_GNM_RON_Top'; By Yunda Eddie Feng (August 20, 2002) Anne-Sophie Mutter, goddess of the violin, is one of the crown jewels in Deutsche Grammophons stable of recording artists. In order to celebrate Ms. Mutters career-long kinship with Ludwig van Beethoven, the label has released the DVD Anne-Sophie Mutter: A Life With Beethoven. The disc provides an entertaining, even enthralling introduction to the joys of chamber music performed at the highest levels. A recent trip to a local music store yielded the following observation from the classical music departments handler: People have this idiotic notion about what classical music is. They think Josh Groban or Andrea Bocelli or Charlotte Church. Thats not classical musicthats rubbish. While I dont share his view that the vocalists whom he named are rubbish, I understand his frustration. In order to survive commercially, the classical music world has come to rely on superstar performers who arent necessarily the best in their fields of expertise. This trend has lead to the emergence of acts that present greatest hits rather than full-fledged compositions. For example, the likes of Josh Groban release albums filled with a couple of show-y songs, but these albums are not cohesive musical wholes (which is the problem with most music created post-1950everyones too busy writing 5-minute ditties rather than harnessing energies to create actual works).
Theatre: January-May 2003 Schedule Grammy Award winning pianist lambert orkis and violinist LisaBeth lambert, whowas a member of the National Symphony Orchestra for six seasons before http://www.theatre-washington-va.com/Schedule.cfm?TheScheduleID=20
Theatre: September - December 2003 Schedule Grammy award winning pianist lambert orkis and Philadelphia Orchestra violinistLisaBeth lambert play the final concert in their three-concert series to http://www.theatre-washington-va.com/Schedule.cfm?TheScheduleID=19
Piano300 May 1-June 3 2001 Events May 28, lambert orkis, classical. Tues. May 29, Anthony Walker, classical and jazz Alexandra Eddy and pianist (and exhibition cocurator) Edwin Good, http://piano300.si.edu/perform05.htm
Extractions: May 1-June 3, 2001 Events During final month of the Piano 300 exhibition at the Smithsonian International Gallery there are many opportunities to hear superb pianists in a variety of musical styles. The "Piano Grand Finale!" will include extra performance tours and gallery talks, a reprise of last year's popular Art Night on the Mall featuring students from the Levine School, and more. Most of the programs listed below are free, and many take place in the exhibition itself, affording visitors a final opportunity to hear many of the historic instruments on display. Over 225,000 have visited the exhibition (through early April 2001), thousands more have visited the exhibition's website (www.piano300.org), and special public programs presented at various venues around the Smithsonian have been enormously popular. Though the exhibition will close on June 3, the National Museum of American History will continue its long-standing tradition of providing a wide variety of exhibition-related programs (visit www.americanhistory.si.edu
RedLudwig.com: Grace Notes For pianist lambert orkis (who is also adept with the synthesizer and the archaicfortepiano), the piano is an instrument still in transition. http://www.redludwig.com/gracenotes/archive/120503.html
Extractions: If your Christmas shopping list includes a proverbial "man (or woman) who has everything," there are a number of CDs available that he (or she) probably doesn't have. They tend to be very old or very new music, and at the top of the list is an opera about a character from Greek mythology, the Cyclops Polyphemus. Your friend is unlikely to have this opera because its first recording (on a rather obscure label) was issued on Nov. 25. Jean Cras: Polypheme (Timpani, 3 CDs with libretto). In Homer's "Odyssey," the one-eyed giant Polyphemus is, to say the least, unpleasant. He traps Ulysses and his men in a cave and begins gobbling them, one by one, until Ulysses puts out the one eye in the middle of his forehead. In a variant story that was popular in the 18th century, he is marginally less brutal; he is the loser in a love triangle with the sea nymph Galatea and the shepherd Acis. He kills Acis in a fit of jealous rage, but Galatea does what she can to repair the damage; she uses her supernatural power to turn Acis into a fountain. This story was set to music by composers in France and Italy as well as by Handel in his charming pastoral masque, Acis and Galatea
Classical Voice Of North Carolina pianist lambert orkis has been with the NSO since 1982. He is an acclaimed chambermusician who has received numerous accolades for his performances and http://www.cvnc.org/reviews/2005/032005/NSOChamber.html
Extractions: NSO Chamber Musicians Reveal Intimate Truths by Ken Hoover The second piece on the program, Beethoven's Trio in B-flat, Op. 11, for clarinet, cello and piano, featured Kitt, Young, and Orkis. It begins with a longish Adagio con brio that focuses on interplay among the three instruments. Beethoven states his theme, opens it up, takes it apart, passes it among the instruments, and puts it back together again. As given, the musical conversation in this piece was impressive. The adagio second movement begins with a dramatic theme and develops through conversations between the cello and clarinet, with the piano commenting and chiming in. A beautiful cello solo was the highlight. The third movement finds Beethoven, the performers, and the audience having fun with a theme and variations on an aria that caught Beethoven's fancy –"Pria ch'io l'impegno," from Joseph Weigl's L'amor marinaro , which has something to do with eating. This movement was a really delightful departure from the norm.
Back To The Future AnneSophie Mutter (violin) with lambert orkis (piano) and Daniel as well asbeing the only item with lambert orkis, Mutter s regular recital pianist. http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2000/apr00/mutter2.htm
Extractions: Anne-Sophie Mutter 's survey of 20 th Century music in her repertoire is being promoted in a series of recitals and orchestral concerts, in association with the release of a 4-CD Deutsche Grammophon compilation of recordings from 1988-1997. She commands a wide following and was able to fill the Barbican for music by Bartok, Webern, Crumb, Penderecki and others who may be less off-putting to a general audience, but with nothing really to pull them in apart from her own reputation. It was an inspired choice to begin with Webern's Four Pieces Op 7 (1910), tiny elusive miniatures which established immediately that the audience had to actively listen. The third 'hovers on the edge of inaudibility' and coughs which broke the spell sounded like gunfire! Respighi's sonata did not demonstrate that its neglect is undeserved. George Crumb's characteristic Four Nocturnes (1964) required a separate prepared piano for its kaleidoscopic colouristic effects
John Smith (example Website) lambert orkis Arlington. Explore many-faceted career of pianist lambert orkis,noted for concerts, and recordings as recital partner, chamber musician http://www.classicol.com/piano/Links.cfm?ID=624
Washingtonian Online lambert orkis. pianist. Classicalmusic lovers can get jaded. Why buy a newversion of a time-honored composition when stores already stock hundreds of http://www.washingtonian.com/people/bestandbrightest.html
Extractions: PEOPLE Edited by Drew Lindsay and William O'Sullivan We found scores of such people in places expected and unexpected. You might not guess Washington is home to a crossword-puzzle champion, an internationally renowned bagpipe band, or a snail farmer whose product is coveted by four-star restaurants. Here's a chance to meet them, to learn what inspires their work and drives them to excellence. Roots of Mental Illness: E. Fuller Torrey
Extractions: Michael Steinberg: : Why? Jorja Fleezanis: I am an orchestral musician and I suppose I am that fairly rare bird, an orchestra player who really loves playing in an orchestra and loves that repertoire; even so, I feel the need to refresh myself and keep my mind and my chops in trim by taking on other challenges. Doing all the Beethoven sonatas is a good one. You find people doing cycles of the nine symphonies and of all the quartets and even of all thirty-two piano sonatas, but a survey like that of the ten violin sonatas is really rare. Michael Steinberg: Jorja Fleezanis: Michael Steinberg: A special aspect of these concerts is that you will be trying to get close to the sounds one would have heard around 1800 or just after, when the sonatas were new. Jorja Fleezanis: Michael Steinberg: Youll be using your regular violin, though, yes? Jorja Fleezanis: Michael Steinberg: Jorja Fleezanis: No, he wont, and thats where, as I mentioned before, the generosity of the Schubert Club comes in. They have a good collection of pianos (also a gamelan, among other treasures), and for the concerts here Cyril will be using one of their instruments, probably a modern copy of an 1824 Conrad Graf, who built several pianos for Beethoven, or possibly a Broadwood from about 1820, which the Schubert Club may have acquired by then. Malcolm Bilson is going to lend us a fortepiano for our New York concert, and at this point Im not quite sure of the arrangements for the West Coast.
Dickinson College - Department Of Music piano with Professor Harvey Wedeen and accompanying with Mr. lambert orkis . the youngest pupil of Gilberto Tinetti, a prominent pianist in Brazil. http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/music/eunaebaikkim.html
Extractions: baikkime@dickinson.edu Ms. Kim received the B.M. and M. M. degrees both in Piano Performance and Accompanying/Chamber Music from Temple University in Philadelphia PA. She studied piano with Professor Harvey Wedeen and accompanying with Mr. Lambert Orkis. Born in the Republic of Korea, her family immigrated to Brazil when she was eleven years old. There, she studied music theory and chamber music in the Conservatorio Municipal de San Paulo and became the youngest pupil of Gilberto Tinetti, a prominent pianist in Brazil. Ms. Kim has won many awards and competitions such as "Concurso para Jovens Solistas" and "Concurso Estadual para Instrumentistas e Cantores." She has performed with San Paulo Symphony Orchestra and has had numerous solo and chamber recitals in San Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. She has extensive accompanying experience in chamber and vocal music including operas and choirs. Ms. Kim joined Dickinson College in the fall, 2000. She is an accompanist for the Dickinson College Choir and the Dickinson Collegium Musicum. She teaches piano in the Performance Studies program and assists faculty and student performances.
Extractions: CONCERT REVIEW By Andrew Wong Staff Writer Anne-Sophie Mutter Symphony Hall Oct. 16, 8 p.m. Sonata for Violin and Piano Anne-Sophie Mutter has come a long way since her child-prodigy years with mentor Herbert von Karajan. She is renowned as a champion of modern music with such accomplishments as her Mutter Modern Album a work written specifically for her. Last year, she finished off her Beethoven sonata cycle, having extensively toured with Orkis in a full exposition of the ten sonatas. She has even managed to record a full-length DVD on the subject. Hungarian Dances Porgy and Bess Suite (arranged by Jascha Heifetz). During each piece, Mutter played with full intensity and wit, polarizing all dynamic contrasts to the extremes of her instrument. However, the seductive glissandos, the ultra-wide vibrato, and the hollowness of the piano sections somehow detracted from the overall performance. At times, especially in the Hungarian Rhapsody Violin Concerto Spring Sonata Having been a huge fan of her playing, I was shocked to find myself leaving the concert unimpressed and a bit empty. Yes, her technique is truly amazing and she is one of the finest violinists of our time, but in a concert situation, the effect is a saturation of style.
