Deutsche Grammophon has established a new Berlin-based audio-visual series of chamber concerts, presenting solo piano, songs and ensemble works. Episodes recorded so far feature Daniel Barenboim performing in the Pierre Boulez Saal, and Seong-Jin Cho, Andreas Ottensamer, Anna Prohaska, Avi Avital and Albrecht Mayer performing in the legendary Meistersaal.
Daniel Barenboim partners with his son violinist Michael Barenboim in an all-Mozart programme of violin sonatas Nos. 32 & 33, K454 & K481. The live concert recording was made at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin. […]
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Forming a center piece of his DG album “The Wanderer”, Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho performs Schubert’s Fantasy live at Berlin’s Meistersaal. Also on the programme is Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata, Op.1, a single-movement work of extraordinary intensity that shares with the Fantasy the structure of a simple melodic gesture that is then expanded and transformed. […]
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The idea of asking the string section leaders of the Staatskapelle Berlin to form a quartet came from Music Director Barenboim himself a decade ago. In this concert, he plays solo piano pieces by Schumann and is then joined by the Staatskapelle Quartet to perform the composer’s famous Piano Quintet which was premiered by Schumann’s […]
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Austrian-British soprano Anna Prohaska, accompanied here by pianist Caspar Frantz, is equally at home in both German and English song. In this recital she takes us on a journey of repertoire from Purcell to Puccini and Weill, via Bach, Mozart and Schumann. Repertoire:Purcell: An Evening Hymn (“Now that the sun hath veiled his light”)J.S. Bach: […]
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