Archive for the ‘Classical Performances’ Category
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Dear Friends of the Piano Salon -
I would like to invite you to the following concerts this week.
This Saturday, 05th November at 20.30hrs, we will continue after a long pause with a song recital, a very special one: One of the most renowned young German baritone, Peter Schöne will be accompanied by the beautiful Ukrainian piano virtuoso Olga Monakh [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Bariton, chopin project berlin, Eugene Mursky, Liszt und Mahler - anniversary concert, Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition, Olga Monakh, Peter Schöne, Piano, Piano Salon Christophori
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Conductor Daniel Barenboim will today receive the first ever ‘Willy-Brandt International Prize’.
The prize is, presented by the Social Democratic Party of Germany /SPD to honour the memory of SPD German politician Willy Brandt, mayor of West Berlin from 1957 to 1966 and Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 til 1974.
Barenboim leads an Israeli-Arab orchestra – the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra- with which [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 'West-Eastern Divan Orchestra', Banenboim wins SPD prize, barenboim gets german recognition....again!, Barenboim honoured in Berlin, Daniel Barenboim receives first Willy Brandt Award, Daniel Barenboim receives SPD prize, Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD, SPD, Willy-Brandt International Prize’
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Monday, October 10th, 2011

Dear Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori!
Three upcoming concerts for you – and a special concert on Monday the week after next.
CONCERT # 1
This coming Tuesday, at 20.30 hrs best known as a terrific drummer and founder of the group ‘Metrobop’ Martin Krümmling will present his own trio, nice, easy to listen better and catchy jazz can not be. An absolute must [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: beethoven Klavierkonzert No.1 C-Dur Op. 15, beethoven Klavierkonzert No.3 c-moll Op. 37, Julia Glaß, Li-Chun Su, Martin Krümmling Trio, MUSICA LITORALIS, Piano Salon Christophori, Sayaka Shoji
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Friday, October 7th, 2011

Dear Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori
In the next week I invite you to two concerts – though with a marginal difference – both with glorious international career musicians.
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This coming Friday at 20:30hrs, Kotaro Fukuma one of the most renowned young Japanese pianists of the present day, and also the most ‘European’ in his musical outlook the [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Julien Quentin, Kotaro Fukuma, Musica Litoralis’, Névéol Mathieu, Piano Salon Christophori
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

THE TWO-PIANOS SERIES
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Olha Chipak und Oleksiy Kushnir
an zwei Flügeln
Eines der besten und preisgekröntesten Klavierduos der Welt
Werke von Brahms und Mozart
www.chipak-kushnir.de
Dear Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori – Please note a program change for next Friday:
In the coming week is one of the most beautiful and illustrious tradition continued in the salon concerts, the piano of the two [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Mozart Sonata for 2 Pianos in C Major, Oleksiy Kushnir, Olha Chipak, Olha Chipak and Oleksiy Kushnir, Piano Salon Christophori
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Klavierabend
mit
Esther Birringer
Beethoven: Sonate op.57 “Appassionata”
Chopin: Ballade Nr.3 op.47
Liszt: Dante-Sonate
Dear Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori-
This week, two very different piano recitals with lots of different colors will bring the piano to be heard in its full glory!
The famous young pianist Esther Birringer, winner of numerous piano competitions, is the first time one evening in the piano lounge this evening -Thursday, [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Beethoven sonata Op 109., Beethoven: Sonate op.57 "Appassionata", Brahms Ungarische Tänze, Esther Birringer, Leonid Egorov, Liszt La Campanella, Liszt Sonetto del Petrarca, Liszt: Dante-Sonate, Schumann »Liebeslied, Scriabin 2 Preludien op. 11
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Sunday, September 18th, 2011

Kurt Sanderling, a legend and doyen of German conductors, has died at the age of 98, just one day before his 99th birthday.
His last public concert with “his” orchestra, the ‘Berlin Symphony Orchestra’ had been on 19th May in 2002, when he was 89 whereupon he decided to retire from public life.
This orchestra now is known as the ‘Konzerthausorchester Berlin’ – http://www.konzerthaus.de/konzerthausorchester/portraet.php?id_language=2
In [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 'Konzerthausorchester Berlin', Dimitri Shostokovtch, Erich Kleiber, German-Jewish intelligentsia, Herbert Blomstedt, Kiril Kondrashin, Kurt Masur, Kurt Sanderling, Kurt Sanderling dies, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Yevgeny Mravinsky
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Concert #1 Thursday 8th September 2020 hrs -
Hardy Rittner
J.S. Bach – aus dem Wohltemperierten Klavier
Schubert – B-Dur Sonate D 960
Liszt – 2.Ballade h-moll
Dear Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori,
This coming week we present some great creative ‘piano- power’ in two very diverse concerts. Both virtuosity and technique are interwoven [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Hardy Rittner, Liszt - 2.Ballade h-moll, Piano Salon Christophori, Schubert - B-Dur Sonate D 960, Ulugbek Palvanov
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Monday, August 22nd, 2011

The good news is that it did not rain!
While many people looked up at various times thinking that they heard some nearing thunder – it was nothing more than aircraft taking off into some low-lying cloud cover at Tegel airport.
TheWaldbühne, Berlin or the out-door forest stage; in is one of the most beautiful open-air stages in Europe.
It lies at the western end [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Barenboim and W.E.D. orchestra review, Bass René Pape, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Berlin + Beethovens 9th, concert review at Waldbune Berlin, Filip van der Plas, Mezzo Soprano Waltraud Meier, outdoor Beethovens 9th, review of West Eastern Divan Orchestra concert, review west eastern divan orchestra berlin, Soprano Anja Harteros, Tenor Peter Seiffert
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Monday, August 15th, 2011

Dear Friends of the Piano Salon
I announce with great pleasure the two- pianos series schedule for the coming week- this Friday, 19th August starting at 20.30 Ms Olga Monakh a profound and emphatic Beethoven interpretor who has been nominated for for the prestigious Beethoven Competition is our first artist.
The solo Piano part of the evening, [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Beethoven Sonate op. 110, Beethoven Tempest Sonata, Christoph Schreiber, Georgy Gromov, konzertfluegel.com, Maria Masycheva, Mozart's c-minor, Nicolas Bringuier, Olga Monakh, Piano Concerto K. 491, Piano Salon Christophori, Two Grande Pianos series
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