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Sunday, February 5th, 2012

‘Klavierabend’ with
Daniel Seroussi
Schumann/Liszt -Widmung
Schubert/Liszt – Gretchen am Spinnrade
Schubert:
Allegro – Andantino – Scherzo: Allegro vivace – un poco piu lento
Rondo: Allegretto
F. Chopin – Ballade no.4 in f-moll, op. 52 & Klaviersonate in A-Dur, D.959
Schumann – Carnaval , op. 9
This coming Friday evening 10th February at 2030hrs, another great young pianist, [...] Continue Reading…
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Chamber Music on a grande scale with……
Lea Birringer – Violin
Esther Birringer – Piano
Mozart: Sonate KV 305 A-Dur
Beethoven: Sonate op.12 Nr.3 Es-Dur
Hindemith: Sonate op.11 Nr.1 Es-Dur
Respighi: Sonate h-moll
Ottorino Respighi [1879 - 1936] – foto from Wikipedia
Lea will play a Violine made by Gianbattista Ceruti,
Cremona, circa 1800.
www.leabirringer.com
www.estherbirringer.com
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Friday, January 27th, 2012

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – baptized as – wait for it – Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was born on the 27th January 1756 in Salzburg Austria – so Happy Birthday to Mister Mozart.
Below I have written a short account of Mozart’s journey late in his life to Berlin and follow that with the major part of a short biography of hime as [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 27th January Mozart's birthday, Happy Birthday Mozart, Mozart Berlin, mozart in Berlin, Mozart travels to Berlin, Mozart's Journey to Berlin by Maynard Solomon, The Journal of Musicology
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012

The Chopin Projekt with Eugene Mursky
Played on historical instruments made by Erard und Pleyel
* Rondo c-moll, op. 1 (1825)
* Sonate Nr. 1 c-moll, op. 4 (1828)
Allegro Maestoso
Menuetto
Larghetto
Finale – Presto
* Drei Nocturnes op. 9 (b-moll, Es-Dur, H-Dur) (1830 – 32)
* Vier Mazurken op. 6 (fis-moll, cis-moll, E-Dur, es-moll) (1830 – 32)
* Polonaise As-Dur (1821)
* Polonaise As-Dur, op. 53 “Heroique” [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
Georgy Gromov
Plays the Piano music of Ludwig van Beethovens
The Sonata for Cello and Piano number II
Cellist Nikolai Solonovich - First violinist of the ’Moscow Soloists’
and Pianist Georgy Gromov
Dear Friends of the salon concerts, I would like to invite for the next week to an extraordinary concert this coming Thursday January the 19th at 2030 hrs – Beethoven Live in [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: AUGUST FÖRSTER, Beethoven live in Beriin, Erard and Pleyel pianos berlin, Georgy Gromov, Moscow Soloists, Nikolai Solonovich, ota-berlin piano salon, Piano Salon Christophori, Stradivari, What to do in Berlin January 19th
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Saturday, January 14th, 2012

As a first live concert I have attended this year – this was a perfect choice and it is repeated this evening and tomorrow afternoon.
Take my advice- GO! You will not be dissapointed!
It consisted of a very well thought-out program of the Berlin ‘Koncerthausocherster’ and was both diversified and yet culturally -or if you like ‘Polishly’ -linked and called simply ‘Chopiniana’.
The orchestra [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
Isaac Albéniz i Pascual’
Piano evening with Michio Nishihara Toro
Schubert Impromptu Des D 899
Chopin Polonaise cis moll nr 1
Chopin Polonaise Nr 5 fis moll Op. 44
Beethoven Sonata “Appassionata”
Debussy L Isle Joyeuse
Debussy Reverie
Albeniz El Albaicin
Villa-Lobos Lenda do Caboclo
Liszt Soneto de Petrarca Nr 104
Liszt Mephisto Valse
http://www.nishiharatoro.com/
For an OTA-Berlin Mini-Composer biography of Isaac Albéniz i Pascual’ - http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/04/10/ota-berlin-constituency-blog-mini-composer-bios-spanish-composers-issac-albeniz/
Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori concerts -I [...] Continue Reading…
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Saturday, January 7th, 2012

As we have now established, the Berlin nightlife is great because of the selection of clubs, the high quality of the DJs and the fact that clubs have no official time so the party can go on and on. But there are several more reasons that add to the brilliance of the nightlife.
Lets start with the prices. Everyone knows that the nightlife [...] Continue Reading…
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
Mozart Violinsonate K. 454 B-Dur
Brahms Violinsonate Nr. 3 d-moll
Ysaÿe Solo Violinsonate Nr. 2 ‘Obsession’
Saint-Saëns Havanaise
Saint-Saëns Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
Tomorrow, Saturday evening January the 7th at 2030hrs , the first Chamber Music concert of the group ‘Musica Litorali’s series continues with pianist Julien Quentin – all musicians of international renown. http://www.julienquentin.com/
Julien is one of the [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, January 2nd, 2012

RIAS Kammerchor
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin – Det Norske Solistkor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis D-Dur op. 123
Christiane Iven, Sopran
Gerhild Romberger, Alt
Steve Davislim, Tenor
Alfred Reiter, Bass
RIAS Kammerchor
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
‘Det Norske Solistkor’
Musicial Director and Conductor: Hans-Christoph Rademann
While it has become popular to play Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on January 1st as a way to bring in the new year – last night’s [...] Continue Reading…
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Sunday, December 25th, 2011

Programm
A. Messager (1853-1929): 3 valses I.
Albéniz (1860-1909): Tango op.165,
Nr.2
Pavana-Capricho
op.12
G. Fauré (1845-1924): Dolly Aragón-Fantasia
op.47, Nr.6
Programm
A. Messager (1853-1929): 3 valses I. Albéniz (1860-1909): Tango op.165, Nr.2
Pavana-Capricho op.12
G. Fauré (1845-1924): Dolly Aragón-Fantasia op.47, Nr.6
C. Debussy (1862-1918): Petite Suite M. de Falla (1876-1946): Deux danses espagnoles
Aus 3 Nocturnes: Fêtes aus „La vida breve“
PAUSE
French lightness and Spanish passion [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Erard and Pleyel pianos berlin, Isabel Engelmann & Jong-Eun Lee, ota-berlin piano salon, Piano, Piano for 4 hands Berlin, Piano Recital for 2 pianos + 4 hands, Piano Salon Christophori
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