Beethoven Cycle: 1, 2 News

 
HJ Lim Performs Piano Sonatas at Le Poisson Rouge
New York Times
Recording the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas is an unusual way for a young artist to make a debut on a major record label, but EMI Classics is taking a chance with the distinctive 24-year-old Korean HJ Lim. Ms. Lim, who performed the complete cycle in ...

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Arts and entertainment calendar for May 24
Oak Park Leaves
The Avalon Quartet performs the Beethoven String Quartet Cycle at 3 pm Wednesdays at the Nineteenth Century Club, 178 Forest Ave., Oak Park. Each concert will benefit a designated local organization for which free-will donations will be accepted.


 
Review: Brahms wins battle of musical B's at the Utah Symphony
Salt Lake Tribune
By Catherine Reese Newton Beethoven battles Brahms for top billing at the Utah Symphony this weekend. Brahms won handily on Friday. The Brahms work on the program is his Piano Concerto No. 1, which, of course, is really a symphony in disguise.

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Furlanetto sings in Verdi's 'Atilla.'
St.Petersburg Times.ru
2. Powerful Russian pianist Denis Matsuev, a Russian audience favorite, will play Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 on June 22, and Nikolai Lugansky will perform Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 on June 5. Thrilling Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie ...


 
New York Times
Video's Shifting 'Ring' Roles
New York Times
I love opera, but my taste runs to Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven's “Fidelio” and anything Italian. Until two weeks ago my experience of Wagner's “Ring” was largely limited to two cycles of the Metropolitan Opera's retired Otto Schenk production.

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Community Calendar
Bend Bulletin
The Central Oregon Symphony, conducted by Michael Gesme, will perform a free spring concert featuring the music of Beethoven and Copland at 7:30 pm tonight at Bend High School, with additional performances Sunday and Monday.

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The Guardian
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp 2, 7, 10, 13 and 14, etc – review
The Guardian
There are any number of ways of navigating a route through Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas on disc, but after his series devoted to Haydn and Debussy, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is opting for the most straightforward, a strictly chronological survey.

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