Jul 24, 2013
Venue TBA
Programme: Brahms
Other Performers: Simon Keenlyside
Verbier
Franz Liszt:
Piano Sonata In B Minor
Concert Paraphrases: Aida, Rigoletto
Vallee d'Obermann
Recording Available January 22, 2013
Variations Features Three Works Never Before Recorded By The Pianist
Sony Classical is proud to announce a new recording by pianist Emanuel Ax of four significant sets of Variations by four titanic composers: Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann, and Copland. Variations is available on Tuesday, January 22, 2013.
When Emanuel Ax plays Brahms’ Second Piano Concerto, any participating orchestra’s principal cellist can expect to be accorded an equal place in the spotlight. It was heartwarming, at Benaroya Hall on Thursday evening, to observe the pianist’s insistent inclusion of Efe Baltacigil in his acceptance of the audience’s plaudits.
When John Adams was a young composer and conductor in San Francisco in the early ’70s, he would often perform the experimental music of John Cage and other radicals, which was the hip thing to do at the time. But he has said that all that avant-garde business could leave him musically dissatisfied, and he’d go home and put on recordings of late Beethoven string quartets.